CHAPTER XIII
Of How Wulnoth met with Edgiva again
The man held the curtain aside and invited them to follow him.
"The Atheling bids you come," he said. "And he says to him called the Wanderer that not yet has he received that reward which was promised to him."
"Come, Wanderer," laughed Wahrmund, "we may as well go through with it now. By Thor! 't is strange that I, a Dane, should be amongst these Saxons, but I feel inclined to see this to the end. How sayest thou?"
Little need to ask Wulnoth such a question, for the one desire of his heart was to see his Princess. Therefore the two followed their guide, and were ushered into an apartment where sat the two men whom they had seen watching in the church.
And the younger, he who did not wear the crown, came to welcome them and said—
"Greeting, friends, and again thanks for the aid you rendered me in securing honor for King Edmund's body."
Then he turned to the other, and went on—