Nay, the hard thing was to take no more than twenty, for a hundred were eager to come.
No sooner were we started, than the main body, as agreed, leapt from their hiding-place, and marched rapidly on Dunluce.
Our guide took us a mile eastward of the castle, where at the head of the narrow gully that led from the cliff to the shore, stood Ludar, pistol in hand, waiting for us.

He turned silently as we came up, and, motioning to us to follow, began at once the steep descent.

The cleft was so narrow that one man could only lower himself at a time, and that swinging as often as not by his elbows and hands.

For me it was harder work than for the active redshanks.

As for Ludar, he stood at the bottom, while I, with half the troop growling at my back, was stuck midway.