resemblance must have been the work of fancy, yet as soon as they
had reached the house of Atli, he took the old man aside, and
asked him,--

"Shall I then sail when the snows have melted?"

"Assuredly," replied the seer; "wouldst thou delay what the gods
and the dead enjoin?"




CHAPTER XIV.

THE MIDNIGHT GUEST.


Jomar had returned early in the day, and they found him already
wrapped up in his bear-skin fast asleep before the fire.

"Gave he my warning to Ketill?" Estein asked Atli.

"Assuredly," replied the old man; "I have never known him fail me,
little though he may have liked the errand."

"And what said Ketill? Had they been attacked? What news brought
Jomar back?"

"Let us wake the knave, and ask him," said Helgi; and suiting the
action to the word, he drove one foot sufficiently hard into the