one, but go home and say to mother that I shall be with her in an hour.
Then come back and work here."

Then he and Arngeir went to Sigurd, and told him all from the beginning.
And when the jarl heard, he was glad for the safety of the queen and of
Havelok, but he said that there was no doubt that Denmark was no place
for Grim any longer.

"That is my thought also," said my father; "but now am I Havelok's
foster-father, and for him I can make a home across the sea, where I
will train him up for the time that shall surely come, when he shall
return and take his father's kingdom."

"That is well," the jarl said, "but you have little time. What Hodulf
will do one cannot say, but he may come here with his men behind him to
force me to give you up, and the town will be searched for Havelok, and
both he and the queen will be lost."

"If that is so," my father answered, "we have time enough. Two hours for
the spy to reach his master; one hour for Hodulf to hear him, and to
bethink himself; an hour for gathering his men; and four hours, at the
least, in which to get here. Eight hours, at the least, have we, and the
tide serves in six. I had thought of waiting till dark, but that is of
no use now. We may as well go, for there are true men here, who will
wait to welcome him who flies when he comes again."

"This is a sore wrench for you and yours, good friend and faithful,"
Sigurd said, "but it must be. Nevertheless I can make your loss as
little as it may be. You shall sell all that is yours to me at your own
price, that you may have the means to make a new home well, wherever you