'
And she took the folds of the garments in her hands to show the rents
therein; and her colour was come again, and she was glad.
'What were best to do now?' she said.
Said Face-of-god: 'Let us tarry a little; for some of thy carles
shall surely come up from the Vale: because they will have heard
Wood-wise's whoop, since the wind sets that way.'
'Yea, they will come,' said the Sun-beam.
'Good is that,' said Face-of-god; 'for they shall take the dead
felons and cast them where they be not seen if perchance any more
stray hereby. For if they wind them, they may well happen on the
path down to the Vale. Also, my friend, it were well if thou wert to
bid a good few of the carles that are in the Vale to keep watch and
ward about here, lest there be more foemen wandering about the
waste.'
She said: 'Thou art wise in war, Gold-mane; I will do as thou
biddest me. But soothly this is a perilous thing that the Dusky Men
are gotten so close to the Vale.'
Said Face-of-god: 'This will Folk-might look to when he cometh home;
and it is most like that he will deem it good to fall on them
somewhere a good way aloof, so as to draw them off from wandering
over the waste.
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