Ye maun do exactly what I tell ye.

When we get near danger I'll scout on ahead, and I daur ye to move a hair o' your heid till I give the word." Presently, when they were at the edge of the water, Dougal announced his intention of crossing.

Three boulders in the stream made a bridge for an active man, and Heritage hopped lightly over.

Not so Dickson, who stuck fast on the second stone, and would certainly have fallen in had not Dougal plunged into the current and steadied him with a grimy hand.

The leap was at last successfully taken, and the three scrambled up a rough scaur, all reddened with iron springs, till they struck a slender track running down the Dean on its northern side.