Njal took out a purse of money.
"What money is that, father?"
"Here is the money that Gunnar paid me for our house-carle last summer."
"That will come to stand thee in some stead," says Skarphedinn, and smiled as he spoke.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
THE SLAYING OF KOL, WHOM ATLI SLEW.
Now we must take up the story, and say that Atli asked Bergthora what work he should do that day.
"I have thought of some work for thee," she says; "thou shall go and look for Kol until thou find him; for now shalt thou slay him this very day, if thou wilt do my will."
"This work is well fitted," says Atli, "for each of us two are bad fellows; but still I will so lay myself out for him that one or other of us shall die."