Excerpt: ...land of dark earth or peat. "A swamp," said Harry Girdwood. "It looks like a bog," said young Jack, "but yet I can see something moving." "It is water." "A lake." "Yes." "How black-how dismal it looks." It did, indeed. Silent and gloomy, like a table of metal, spread the darkling waters of this strange lake. Wild and desolate was it in the extreme. On every side it was enclosed by towering heights, bare, treeless and solemn. Both boys were plainly impressed with the dull solemnity of the scene. "What does that ...
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Excerpt: ...land of dark earth or peat. "A swamp," said Harry Girdwood. "It looks like a bog," said young Jack, "but yet I can see something moving." "It is water." "A lake." "Yes." "How black-how dismal it looks." It did, indeed. Silent and gloomy, like a table of metal, spread the darkling waters of this strange lake. Wild and desolate was it in the extreme. On every side it was enclosed by towering heights, bare, treeless and solemn. Both boys were plainly impressed with the dull solemnity of the scene. "What does that look like?" said young Jack, in a low voice to his companion. "I don't know-Lerna, the famous marsh, near Argos." "No; it was there that Hercules killed the Hydra, wasn't it?" "Yes." "I should like to think that it was like that," he said, glancing around at the brigands about them. "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. The men were nothing loth. The road they had traversed was steep and rugged, and it had perhaps told less upon the two boy prisoners than upon any of the party. The brigands sat and refreshed. They made a hearty meal of cold meat and coarse bread and herbs, and they drank of their wine from the skins until their swarthy faces flushed purple; and whilst they...
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