CHAPTER XVIII
THE CROSSING OF SWORDS
Sunrise, two days later, found Mr. Richard Ringgold and myself stamping our feet in the snow on the pike, half-way between the hostile lines.
"I suppose they will let us fight here without interruption," said Dick.
"No danger from that," I replied. "We will fight in that little hollow, where the outposts cannot see us."
"Here they come," said Dick. We saw two officers approaching across the snow from the Highland outpost.
They soon came up, and we saluted, while Dick and Captain Forbes, Farquharson's second, soon agreed upon the preliminaries.
"Will you lead the way, gentlemen?" said Forbes.
Dick and I led them to the little hollow between the hills, where a slight meadow formed a platform, as it were, for us to act our drama upon.