The Scotch Twins

er to our side," Alan called. The two boys ran further down stream and crossed the brook on sto

to find his food in the forest. The scone which Sandy had brought from home had been divided and eaten long ago; and all four of

, and Jean instantly followed him. For a moment Jock and Sandy were as mystified as Jean had been when Alan first found the secret stairway, but

oesn't this beat Robinson Crusoe all to pieces? If he had found a place like t

conviction, and Sandy was so overcome with admiration that he turned a back somersa

we'd have to do for water would be to hold a pan under the edge of the fall. There's no way of getting

asket, which Jean had begun to unpack. "Losh!" he cried. "Look, Jock! Bacon

has a gun with him. We're safe enough up here, if we keep quiet, but

t the noise of the falling waters. "Huh!" Sandy snorted, "he couldn't h

caressing his empty stomach an

"the food must be cooked first,

he rock," said Alan, "if we had so

up the secret stair, though it'll be hard work getting them through the narrow places. We oug

ext time," said Alan.

nd a space for the fire. The boys were soon back with plenty of small fuel, and in a short time a bright fire was blazing on the rock and there was a wond

g the rabbit-hole," laughed Jean. "I wo

aden with a slice of bacon and a fried egg, an

o Alan, rolling over on his back and waving his legs in the air as he finished

ean, reprovingly, "don't you beli

t I like this better than sitting around playi

dy could think of an answer a memory of the catechism crossed his mind, and he added as afterthought, "How do you ken you're one of the elect, anyway

s character. "I'm just as elect a

h. "Shame on you!" she said. "You'll neither one of you get so

k. "I don't just mind whether there's a chance for thieves, but

ge," said Jean primly,

ying about what will become of Angus Niel after he's dead. I want to know what's going to be done with him r

on him!" s

lling?" said Jean

be, or the Auld Laird

'll not believe you, anyway; he's a friend of Angus himself, and, as for the

have a clan, like Rob Roy, and we'll just badger the life out of Angus Niel. We'll never let him know who we are, but keep kim

plause. "He'd not sleep easy if he knew Jea

aving his legs frantically

the Rob Roy C

roared S

if the Chief bids us do anything, we'll just have to do it. T

t first. Let him b

e that, and he my own brother? 'Deed, I'd never get a lick of work out of

Jock, "but it's enough to be bossed by you at home!

said Jean, and so t

"you'll all have to swear

y, and Jean added in a shocked voice, "Alan, you'd ne

ng." Then an idea popped into his head. "In a real Clan they are all kinsmen, but here's Sandy, an

ther? How do you ma

her three watched him in breathless admiration, he made a little cut in his wr

ssed the knife to Jean, who

ndy," sa

as he shut his eyes and jabbed himself gingerly with the point. Then Alan to

foot is on my native heath, my name it is McGregor.'" Sandy obeyed with solemnity, and, this

n placed their hands under Alan's hand, while they promised to

you mustn't tell us

an. And so the Rob Roy

nchmen," he cried, striking a noble attitude, and waving his hand toward the forest, "bring hither sprays of the Everg

the hole in the rock on this errand, l