This is a fool's business--and badly begun.

Now, let a white man's wisdom finish it." I, too, had risen in surprise, stepping backward also, in order that the trees might screen me.

And at the same moment the stranger rounded the jutting shoulder of our crag, and came suddenly face to face with me in midtrail.
"Euan!" So astounded was I that my rifle fell clattering from my nerveless hand as she sprang forward and caught my shoulders with both her hands.

And I saw her grey eyes filling and her lips quivering with words she could not utter.
"Lois!" I repeated, as though stupefied.

"Lois!" "Oh, Euan! Euan! I thought I would never, never come up with you!" she whimpered.