"'Now Einar dies if my father is hurt'"
They drew away hastily, and dared do no more, for they knew the aim of the lad. Nothing more was done in violence; yet before he rode away did Ondott summon Hiarandi for that hurt to him. And there the matter rested, with two suits against Hiarandi. Then all was quiet until the time came for folk to ride to the Althing.
CHAPTER VI
OF WHAT HIARANDI SHOULD DO
Hiarandi spoke not at all of the suits against him, yet he was continually gloomy. And one day he said:
"Much better were it now, had I never lighted the beacon that night."
"Thou knowest," responded Asdis, "that thou didst right."
"Still," said Hiarandi, "summer gales oft bring wrecks, and one ship might pay the blood-fine for me."
"For all that," Asdis answered, "thou hast not now the heart to stop lighting the beacon."
Then on the second night thereafter came a storm; but nothing was said, except that Hiarandi bade the beacon be lighted. Yet he was gloomier than ever.