But I know this, that never again could he find that strange and sweet voice that had come to him in the need of his master.
Brand the thrall cowered in the house porch when we returned, and he was pale as a sheet, while his knees trembled even yet.

We took him in and gave him wine and meat, and then asked him how the Danes got hold of him.
"Master," he said, "they caught me but a little while after I had left you--as I set snares for rabbits on the hill.

I let them come to me, thinking them some of the king's men who are kindly.

Then they said they needed a guide through the country to the sea, and kept me with them." Then Olaf said to him: "No ill will come of this seeing of the White Lady, for she came to save Redwald your lord; you may sleep in peace therefore, but it would be unlucky to say that you saw her." Then the man said that he would not speak of the matter, and it was plain that he dared not do so.

But he went away cheerfully enough, with his mind at rest from its fears.
"It would be ill luck for me if Rani heard of this," said Olaf, looking ruefully at us; "for we cannot deny that he warned us.