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Rh She led them accordingly by a long and winding passage almost overgrown with brushwood, until, without any very perceptible descent, they suddenly found themselves by the sea-side. Meg then walked very fast on between the surf and the rocks, until she came to a remarkable fragment of rock detached from the rest. "Here," she said in a low, and scarcely audible whisper, "here the corpse was found."

"And the cave," said Bertram in the same tone, "is close beside it—are you guiding us there?"

"Yes. Bend up both your hearts—follow me as I creep in—I have placed the fire-wood so as to screen you—Bide behind it for a gliff till I say, The hour and the man are baith come; then rin in on him, take his arms, and bind him till the blood burst frae his finger-nails."

"I will—if he is the man I suppose—Jansen!"

"Aye, Jansen, Hatteraick, and twenty mair names are his."