Were there aught to be had by betraying Offa, he would betray him.

Take a bad Saxon and a false Welshman, and that is saying much, and weld them into one, and you have Gymbert." "This is hearsay from the Welsh he has fought," said I; "one need not heed it." "I suppose not," quoth Erling; "but I never heard aught else of him.

And he has the face of a traitor." With that he turned to his horses and began loosening the pack from that one which bore it.

There was no more to be got out of him, as I knew, and so, leaving him to set the tent in order, I went my way toward the river, being minded for a good swim therein after the long, dusty way.

And turning over what Erling had said of himself, I remembered that Thorleif had told me how he had come from Wales round the Land's End to Weymouth.