"He was the man who had to do with this treasure ship you picked up." "Then you had some pact with Arnkel ?" "More or less," he said; "but there was a deal of chance in the matter.

In the gale I was outsailed, for your ship is not speedy, as you know.

The other two took refuge among the islands on the Norse shore, and there heard of the great mound laying of Thorwald which was to be.

The ship had passed in the dawn of that morning, and had not far to go.

Whereon my father sent a message to Arnkel, whom he knew, to say that he was at hand, and landed and fell on him.