Wherefore it seems to me that there was work there to be forgiven by you.

Is that so ?" The thing was so plain that I could but bow my head in assent.
"Now," he went on, "I have heard private talk of this sort before now; but never mind.

I cannot inlaw you again, Heregar; for that must needs be done in full Moot, as was the outlawry.

Yet shall all my power be bent to help you back to your own, if only for the sake of today." Then would I thank him, but he stopped me.
"To the man who lit the fire of Stert, who checked the panic on Cannington Hill, thanks are due, not gratitude from him.

And to him justice and reward." Now I knew not what to say; but at that moment came a hurried rapping on the door and the sound of voices, speaking together.