'
They bade him go: so he sheathed his sword, and went through the
press with two men of the Steer toward the southern road; for the
Bride had been brought into a house nigh the corner of the Market-
place.
But Face-of-god looked after his father as he went, and remembrance
of past days came upon him, and such a storm of grief swept over him,
as he thought of the Bride lying pale and bleeding and brought anigh
to her death, that he put his hands to his face and wept as a child
that will not be comforted; nor had he any shame of all those
bystanders, who in sooth were men good and kindly, and had no shame
of his grief or marvelled at it, for indeed their own hearts were
sore for their lovely kinswoman, and many of them also wept with
Face-of-god. But the Sun-beam stood by and looked on her betrothed,
and she thought many things of the Bride, and was sorry, albeit no
tears came into her eyes; then she looked askance at Folk-might and
trembled; but he said coldly, and in a loud voice:
'Needs must we search the houses for the lurking felons, or many a
man will yet be murdered. Let Wood-wicked lead a band of men at once
from house to house.
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