Let me work with you in this, for, indeed, I shall not be happy until I have seen her in safety again, and in her own land, if that may be what she wishes." "That will be her first wish," I answered, being sure thereof.
In those last days on board the ship, when I was not taking my turn at the helm, I had spoken much with Gerda, sitting on the deck just without the little shelter we had rigged for her aft, and ever her thoughts had gone back to Norway and a home there.
"You and I must see this through together," Bertric said frankly.
"I knew that this would be your one thought, and you will be none the worse off for someone to help.

'Bare is back without brother behind it,' as your old saw goes." I held out my hand to him on that bargain with a great relief, and he took it and laughed.
"Maybe we are making much of what need be little trouble," he said; "but we cannot tell.

We are in a strange land, and, from all I ever heard, a troubled one.

A lady is no light charge.

Let us see if we can find her before Dalfin wakes.