The Bridge sent a cart for its dead man at noon the next day, and a note with it, and the note was courteous.
Corin read it at Sela’s gate, because Sela handed it to him without opening it and went back to her wall. Captain Sellick presents his compliments to Mistress Brand and thanks her for the return of the garrison’s men. The man who ran has been found at the foot of the pass and is at the Bridge. The Captain regrets the trouble to her house. Two troopers loaded the long man under a blanket and sat the heavy one beside him with his arm in a sling Orla had made, and the cart went back down the valley at a walk, and nobody in the Brack came out to watch it go.
He gave the note to Orla. She read it twice and handed it back.…
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