So when thou goest to Burgdale with her, there shall we
be.'
Then was Face-of-god glad when he found that they deemed his wedding
so settled and sure; but Wood-wise fell to making ready for the road.
And Face-of-god said to him:
'Tell me one thing, Wood-wise; that whoop that thou gavest forth when
we were at handy-strokes e'en now--is it but a cry of thine own or is
it of thy Folk, and shall I hear it again?'
'Thou may'st look to hear it many a time,' said Wood-wise, 'for it is
the cry of the Wolf. Seldom indeed hath battle been joined where men
of our blood are, but that cry is given forth. Come now, to the
road!'
So they went their ways and the road worsened upon them, and toilsome
was the climbing up steep bents and the scaling of doubtful paths in
the cliff-sides, so that the journey, though the distance of it were
not so long to the fowl flying, was much eked out for them, and it
was not till near nightfall that they came on the ghyll of the
Weltering Water some six miles above Burgstead. Forsooth Wood-wise
said that the way might be made less toilsome though far longer by
turning back eastward a little past the vale where they had rested at
midday; and that seemed good to Gold-mane, in case they should be
wending hereafter in a great company between Burgdale and Shadowy
Vale.
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