Would it not be the part of a coward to bide here and make no effort to warn our friends ?" "What good would a warning do ?" said Ringan.

"Even if you got through to Lawrence--which is not very likely--d'you think a wheen Borderers in a fort will stay such an army?
It would only mean that you lost your life on the South Fork instead of in the hills, and there's little comfort in that." "It's not like you to give such counsel," I said sadly.

"A man cannot think whether his duty will succeed as long as it's there for him to do it.

Maybe my news would make all the differ.

Maybe there would be time to get Nicholson's militia to the point of danger.