[Boycotted by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookBoycotted CHAPTER FIVE 16/30
Alas! that we must part." Thor stopped short as he heard these last words, and moaned piteously. "Yes, good Thor," said the hero, sadly, "for I cannot live another day without sending a message to my lady that I am safe, thanks to her and thee." The dog, who seemed to understand it all, looked up in his master's face beseechingly, as if to persuade him against his resolve. "The danger now is past," said Sigurd.
"No wolves haunt the forest betwixt here and Jockjen, and in the town thy presence may discover me. So haste back, good Thor, to my lady with this my message." So saying he took from the ground a smooth strip of bark, on which, with the point of his sword, he wrote something.
Then, turning to Thor, "Carry this," he said, "to her." And as Thor turned and hastened off on his errand, Sigurd looked after him and sighed, and wished he too were going that way. But time forbade that he should linger long thus, and once more he turned his face resolutely towards Jockjen and went on alone. Although the forest stretched some leagues farther, the trees were no longer dense or the path difficult.
In parts large clearings had been made, and felled timber here and there betokened the busy hand of the woodman.
Sigurd met more than one of these, who accosted him.
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