[King Olaf’s Kinsman by Charles Whistler]@TWC D-Link bookKing Olaf’s Kinsman CHAPTER 8: The White Lady Of Wormingford Mere 30/31
Pray, therefore, and sleep again.
I think that you need fear little." Then after a while he spoke once more. "Redwald, saw you aught upon the mere while we sat in the canoe in its midst ?" "Aye, my king," I answered, knowing what he meant. "I saw her also," he said. So it had been no fancy of mine, but the White Lady of our house had indeed passed before my eyes.
I began to wonder if this portended aught to me, but soon I thought that it did not, for the like peril in which I had been, and even then had hardly escaped from, had not befallen any of my kin, as I was in peril at her own place, which was a new thing.
So I judged that she showed her thought of us only. In the morning matters fell out so that we had never need to say what danger we had run.
For the men had seen Brand's plight, which was pitiful, after Danes and thickets had done their work on him, and told Olaf that the man had met with and escaped Danes from the mere woods. So with twenty men we searched those covers in broad daylight, and found no token of any dwellers in the place.
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