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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Then followed for the better part of an hour a
drama of almostindecent sensation.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>He wondered what he had done to be blessedwith such
happiness.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If it stays thickI suppose my part is off. We need
more turf, and she disappeared from sightbeyond a knoll.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It maitters littleif he waits till the darkenin
afore he comes hame. The next he knew was Wattie at his elbow making wild signals to
him to riseand follow. Janet, he shouted against the wind, will you marry me?
Presently from fartherup the hill came a sharp bark, which was almost a bleat. Maybe
that shot that ye think ye bauchledwas the most providential shot ye ever
fired.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was gibbering with fright, said the girl, when I
thought you weregoing to stick. If it stays thickI suppose my part is off. I never
sawsuch hags, and theres no turf to be got except with a spade. I slipped in that
beastly peat-moss, she explained. He studied the hill-side behind him long and
patiently with his glass. Over the ridge it would be a different matter,for there
the wind would be easterly as before. I might link onto them and go with them to
Haripol and keep them in a safe place.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You darling girl, he said, and she turned up to him
a facesmiling no more, but very grave.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The hind flung upher head and gazed
intently.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Were no withinsix hundred yards o yon beasts, he
said.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wattie produced two ropes and bound the fore-feet
and thehind-feet together.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Then he moved on;but the mischief had been done.
When his help was demanded, he hesitated.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Janet, whose glass made up in width of range what
it lacked in power,suddenly cried out: I see him.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If Wattie hadnt shouted out, I think I would
havedone it myself. If the mist lifted Macqueen micht see us. Its no fifty yardsto
the top o the Beallach, and well find a place there for the job. Janet, whose glass
made up in width of range what it lacked in power,suddenly cried out: I see him. I
foresaw that, but thats maybe nota bad thing, now that were out o Macqueens sight.
Their task was not so hard so long as they were in hollows onthe corrie floor. Then
he moved on;but the mischief had been done.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dod, if John Macnab gets yon lad, he can cock his
bonnet.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It was a verra deeficult shot, and ye put it deid
in the only placeye could see. Ive been here for hours and hours, wondering whereon
earth you two had got to. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>