If you are determined to come with us, Stockbridge, I will call him up and examine him about the route.

William Lee, just step here a moment." A swarthy and very powerfully built man came up.

No other than the man I have spoken of under that name before.

He was quite unknown either to James or myself, although, as he told us afterwards, he had recognised us at once, but kept out of our sight as much as possible, till by the Major's summons he was forced to come forward.
"What route to-day, William ?" asked the Major.
"South and by east across the range.

We ought to get down to the river by night if we're lucky." So, while the drays were getting under way, the Major, Tom, James, and myself rode up to the saddle where we had stood the night before, and gazed southeast across the broad prospect, in the direction that the wanderers were to go.
"That," said the Major, "to the right there must be the great glen out of which the river comes; and there, please God, we will rest our weary bodies and build our house.