"I have lost more than one captive in that way." I told him, and he looked kindly enough at me, and smiled in his grim way.
"You were right in saying that a Saxon's word was good, Thrond," he said.
"I am sorry we can in no way send you back now.

Your cousin did his best to win his folk to peace--and fought well when he could not.
Nay, he is not hurt, so far as I know." "Let me swim ashore, if there is no other way," I said, with a dull despair on me.
Thorleif looked at the sea and frowned.
"I could not do it myself," he said.

"There is a swift current round yon headland.

See, it is setting us eastward even now." But I did not wait to hear any more; I shook my shoes off, and over I went.

The wake of the swift vessel closed over my head as the men shouted, and when I came to the surface I looked back once.