Then supposing he picked up our mast ?" "Unlikely enough," I said.

"We are raising trouble for ourselves." Bertric shook his head.

"I know Heidrek only too well.

He may spend this season in hunting for the treasure which he so nearly had.
News of a wreck flies fast, and he has but to touch here and there on our track or thereabout to hear of us sooner or later." Now, I did not trouble much more about this, but it bided in Bertric's mind, and made him restless.

That third day passed without sign from the mainland, as was likely, seeing that the fishers had to reach the king.