"You should have warned me of it."
"Why so?"
"That I might have sent some scouts ahead."
"That is true, but there is still time to do so if you like; the persons who are waiting for us are at the end of that gorge."
"Then we have arrived?"
"Very nearly so."
"Let us push on in that case."
"I am quite ready."
They went on; all at once the guide stopped.
"Hilloh!" he said, "Look over there, Captain; is not that a musket barrel glistening in the sunbeams?"