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"Why, we sit back and wait, here where we are, until either Otir decides to accept his price for us, or Cadwaladr somehow scrapes together whatever fool sum in money and stock he promised his Danes."

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"These we take back with us for funeral," said Otir, brooding darkly over the bodies of his men.

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But was it not already too late, now that it was known Hywel had gone south with orders to bring back and pay over the sum Otir demanded and Cadwaladr had conceded?

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Otir had given his orders, and no man of his following was likely to take them lightly, even if their minds had not been firmly fixed upon more profitable plunder than one Welsh girl, however tempting.

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And so you shall, "said Otir with glossy satisfaction," before you set foot again outside this camp.

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"I have flung defiance at Otir and all his Danes!"

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Chapter Twelve It was well past noon when Torsten again produced his prisoner, chained and humbled and choked with spleen, before Otir.

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That brought a gust of throaty laughter from Torsten, and an emphatic jerk of the head from Otir.

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"I will use an agent I can trust," said Otir, unperturbed now by any flash of anger or defiance from a man so completely in his power.

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Otir let loose a great bellow of laughter, and struck his palms together.

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