Shall I speak of this to the others for you ?" "Aye, do so," she said.

"What have they thought ?--for you three must have spoken thereof already." "It has been in the mind of all of us to take the chief back to some land where he will be honoured.

We have spoken of naught else as yet.

I will say that it has seemed to me that the Christian folk have more care for the honour of the dead than have we." "That is all I needed to hear," she said simply.

"I have feared lest it had been rather the other way." Now I looked aft, and saw Bertric staring under his hand astern, and stepped to the other gunwale to see what it was at which he looked.