![]() ![]() ![]() She wishes you to have them and has no need of them." And though he accepted water from their well, he would say no more of Paksenarrion, whether she lived or lay buried far away, whether she would return or no. "Keep these," the stranger said, "in memory of your daughter Paksenarrion. of the day a stranger rode up, robed and mantled in white, an old man with thin silver hair, and handed down the box and the sword, naked as it hangs now. Gird the cross-hilts are gracefully shaped and chased in gold. The pommel's knot design is centered with the deeply graven seal of St. The other is a very different matter: long and straight, keen-edged, of the finest sword-steel, silvery and glinting blue even in yellow firelight. "In a sheepfarmer's low stone house, high in the hills above Three Firs, two swords hang now above the mantelpiece. ![]()
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