But if he is a man stealer, as is likely, you will hear naught of him, and he will get him from Norwich as fast as he may." As I suppose he did, for neither I nor the sheriff heard more of him, and next day his place in the market was empty.
I asked Erling of his shipwreck, and if Thorleif had been lost, but he could not tell me.

He had been washed off the fore deck as the ship met a great breaker, and with him had come an oar, which he clung to for long hours, making his way shoreward as best he might.
The ship was in danger at the time, and he lost sight of her very soon.

Presently some eddy of tide took him and cast him on the sands of Humber mouth, and there he lay till he was found.

That was a month ago, and since then he had been hawked up and down the coast with the other slaves till we met.
"But I was such a scarecrow, and so savage withal, that no man would look at me," he said.

"It was a good day for me when the knave brought me to Norwich.