So Hall-face greeted him, and smiled and said:
'Guest, if thou wilt, thou may'st take that new blade of my father's
work which thou lovest so, a journey which shall rejoice it.'
'Yea,' said Dallach, 'I suppose that thou wouldest fare on thy
brother's footsteps, and deemest that I am the man to lead thee on
the road, and even farther than he went; and though it might be
thought by some that I have seen enough of Rose-dale and the parts
thereabout for one while, yet will I go with thee; for now am I a man
again, body and soul.'
And therewith he drew Thicket-clearer right out of his sheath and
waved him in the air. And Hall-face was glad of him and said he was
well apaid of his help. So they went away together to gather men,
and on the morrow Hall-face departed and went into the Wild-wood with
Dallach and an hundred and two score men.
But as for Face-of-god, he fared up and down the Dale following the
War-arrow, and went into all houses, and talked with the folk, both
young and old, men and women, and told them closely all that had
betid and all that was like to betide; and he was well pleased with
that which he saw and heard; for all took his words well, and were
nought afeard or dismayed by the tidings; and he saw that they would
not hang aback.
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