The sun began to shine out through the driving wrack of clouds.

The woodland tracks might be wet, but little reeked the travellers of that.
They bound upon their backs as much provision as would suffice for their immediate needs.

They looked well to their arms and ammunition.

They had mended their clothes, and were strong and fresh and full of courage.
The journey before them seemed as nothing to the pair who had traversed so many thousands of miles of wood and water.

And the settlers had friends at the other end who would remember them, and have tears of sympathy to shed at hearing their terrible tale.
The brothers stood looking their last upon the clearing which had for so long been their home.