"And that you or we might emulate the example of Hercules."
"Ah, yes."
"But our enemies are more than hydra-headed."
The other glanced eagerly about him before he spoke.
"It is a question; I should almost sooner run a good deal of risk than be marched quietly off."
Now at this present juncture there was a signal from the topmost hills, and upon a trumpet note being blown in answer by one of the brigands, dark, dusky forms appeared upon every side.
Men sprang up in the rocky hills all round the dark waters of the lake, as promptly as the kilted savages responded to the summons of their chieftain, Rob Roy Macgregor Campbell.
Whatever wild fancies the two boy prisoners might have had in their minds, this startling phenomenon effectually drove them away.
And fortunate it was, too, for them.
Hunston called a halt.