In an hour it quieted down, and by midnight all was still.

Hector had been busy with his preparations.
"How many horses have we ?" he asked.
"Well nigh a hundred, colonel." "That is more than enough.

Now, MacIntosh, do you and the men here go down the road and pitch the bodies over; we should never get the horses over them." Then he went to where the tenants were still waiting.

"Now, my lads," he said, "I want a big gap made in one of these walls we built today, wide enough for a horse to pass through it, and strong planks laid across the fosse." Then he ascended the ladder up to the battlements.

He found the baroness and her daughter standing over the gateway.
"Is all over ?" they asked, as he came up to them.
"Yes, for the present.