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At last you can set about your king's-work with free hands. In there are those you love; in Nidaros they are ringing in peace in the land; and yonder he lies who was your direst foe.

All men misjudged him, reading not his secret.

His secret?

[Seizes him by the arm, and says softly.] Skule Bårdsson was God's step-child on earth; that was the secret.

[''The song of the women is heard more loudly from the chapel; all the bells are still ringing in Nidaros.''

THE END.

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