"They will not come at me again; so now for our young friends." He began to feel the nest again, making the young birds squeal hoarsely, and peck at him viciously as well; but after the parents' attack, this seemed trifling, and, to his great satisfaction, he found that there was an egg as well.
"Must get that down safe," he said.

"Old Master Rayburn will be so--" He did not finish his sentence, for at that moment a hoarse voice shouted: "Hallo, below! What you doing there ?" And looking up, to his horror he saw three heads against the sky, as their owners lay on the cliff and looked down at him; one of the faces being that of Ralph Darley, the others, those of two of the enemy's men..