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"Most unfortunate"
Again the gloomy nod "Why you here are, mysire This do not you wonder? Why your jailer I aht very little about it
"You will escape, this they hope A hundred cards paying I aen's husband patted the bed on which he sat "Many blankets you have A fire you have Good food you get"
"So you won't be ruined I understand This is certainly very unfortunate I take it that it would be useless for you to plead with Nat to drop the charges"
"Me he hates" Beroep wiped sweat-beaded face again "Bribe hireedy thief he is Friendsmy son Hide?"
"Strik he is An honest trader like ht he not assist you, too?"
"This I will discover,and athletic Headstrong, as all such young men are He's far o!"
I looked up at Oreb on his perch near the chiht, I won't Beroep, you need not worry about ive you my word I can't speak for ht want to tell your friend Strik so"
"To him as you say I will speak, mysire HeJahlee, hter?"
"Wijzer at sea is" Beroep pointed toward the floor "That Cijfer, his wife is But no ives unless Wijzer says"
"Do you knohen he en's husband shook his head, and I heard her voice from the stairs "Beroep! A bus! A hus at our door was!"
He rolled his eyes upward "A shadow it is,Aanvagen and a slightly slier woh complexion "A hus at our door it is Cijfer to our door it will not allow"
When Aanvagen's husband spoke, it ith a world of skepticism in his voice "A hus it is?"
"Yes!" Cijfer's hands indicated a beast the size of a dray horse
I went to the door and called for Vadsig, then turned back to Aanvagen and her husband "Those are steep stairs I hope you won'tyou"
He said, "You 's voice floated up the stairwell "What it is, mysire?"
"Open the front door, please, and leave it open Your rees that you are to do as I say It's ithy pause, then the sound of Vadsig's hurrying feet
"Beroep, a that if a hus-a wild hus-has come into Dorp, someone will shoot it?"
He shook his head, and both women protested, horrified
"They won't?"
"Bad luck it is!" This froen's husband explained, in the tone of one who tolerates the irrational beliefs of the ignorant "If a beast into the town it cos Back to the woodlands we must it drive If killed it is, thefor the clatter of Babbie's hoofs on Aanvagen's wooden floors, and had not heard it I called, "Vadsig, did you open that door as I asked you?"
She replied, but I could not understand what she said "Tell her to coen's husband advised
As loudly as I could, I shouted, "Coen said, "Tea with brandy in it you need, mysire Get it you shall See to it I will"
"Alone we should talk," her husband muttered "That better would be This hus in my house you wish"
I nodded "Yes, I do"
"Not a wild hus it is Not a shadow either it is A taain
"Like your bird it is"
Oreb bobbed agreement "Good bird!"
"Somewhat like him at least My hus-his naentle anione back to the woo, she learned where I was and proh the doorway "Yes, Mysire Horn?"
I said, "I simply wanted to knohether you opened the front door as I asked, Vadsig"
"Oh, yes, en put in
"Yes, ?"
"Mules,are?" Cijfer inquired urgently
"A hus? Oh, no, Merfrow Cijfer"
"Did you leave the door open, Vadsig, when you ca did you leave it open?"
"Till you up to coiving o outside and look for the hus if asked I shook en's husband asked, "No hus you seeing are, Vadsig?"
"No, Master"
He turned to Cijfer "A hus atI see Tusks as long as my hand they are"
"This your Babbie is?" he askedhurting is?"
"I certainly don't think so"
He o If a hus you see, the door open leave and us you tell If no hus you see, the door you close and your work you do"
She ducked in a sketchy curtsy and hurried away
Cijfer offered hi sufficiently to rattle the paper "Finding this in the sleeping girl's rooen, too?"
They bent their heads over it
"Your daughter she is,all day she is Sleeping all night she is not Walking she is, talking is" She turned to Aanvagen, her voice tre!"
Downstairs, so screamed
Chapter 6 DARK EMPTY ROOMS
Soh darkness that for Pig had no shadeup, found his ar into his flesh "Hoose, ht let us sleep there? I don't see any lights"
"Was nae lights ter Hound's, neither, yet said"