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or enemies; he only wanted some one to fight with,
now that he had a weapon.
The people fled in terror before him. Men and
women shrieked and ran, but how was it possible
for the women to get out of his way? Many of them
had their children by the hand! The booths and
carts, the oxen and cows alarmed by the noise,
hindered their escape. In a corner between the booths
a number of women had been cut off from retreat,
and toward them the giant rushed. Did he imagine
he saw a Göthlander among them? He raised the
board and brought it down upon their heads. Pale
and terrified, the women awaited the attack,
huddling together to meet the fatal blow.
But when the board came whizzing down upon
them, its force was broken upon the outstretched
arms of a man. One man had not crouched under it,
but raised himself above the others; one man had
voluntarily taken the blow to save the many. The
women and children were unharmed; the man had
broken the violence of the blow, but he lay now
senseless upon the ground.
Strong Måns did not lift his weapon again to rush
on to further slaughter. He had met the glance of
the man on whose head his weapon had fallen, and
it rendered him powerless. He allowed himself to
be bound and carried away without resistance.
But the rumor spread quickly over the marketplace
that strong Måns had killed Captain Lennert.
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