It was within two gunshots of the house of Glashruach, yet to get to it they had to walk miles up and down Glashgar.

A mountain in storm is as hard to cross as a sea.
Arrived, they did not therefore feel safe.

The tendency of the Glashburn was indeed away from the cottage, as the grounds of Glashruach sadly witnessed; but a torrent is double-edged, and who could tell?
The yielding of one stone in its channel might send it to them.

All night Angus watched, peering out ever again into the darkness, but seeing nothing save three lights that burned above the water--one of them, he thought, at the Mains.

The other two went out in the darkness, but that only in the dawn.