But now must I go sleep if I am to be where
I look to be at sunrise to-morrow.'
Therewith he called for the sleeping-cup, and it was drunk, and all
men fared to bed. But the Sun-beam took Gold-mane's hand ere they
parted, and said:
'I shall arise betimes on the morrow; so I say not farewell to-night;
yea, and after to-morrow it shall not be long ere we meet again.'
So Gold-mane lay down in that ancient hall, and it seemed to him ere
he slept as if his own kindred were slipping away from him and he
were becoming a child of the Wolf. 'And yet,' said he to himself, 'I
am become a man; for my Friend, now she no longer telleth me to do or
forbear, and I tremble. Nay, rather she is fain to take the word
from me; and this great warrior and ripe man, he talketh with me as
if I were a chieftain meet for converse with chieftains. Even so it
is and shall be.'
And soon thereafter he fell asleep in the Hall in Shadowy Vale.
CHAPTER XXI. FACE-OF-GOD LOOKETH ON THE DUSKY MEN
When he awoke again he saw a man standing over him, and knew him for
Wood-wise: he was clad in his war-gear, and had his quiver at his
back and his bow in his hand, for Wood-father's children were all
good bowmen, though not so sure as Bow-may.
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