Be off .-- Here, call in the men again, and--Yes, what now ?" "Enemy coming up the pass in great strength, sir," said one of the scouts, who had come breathlessly back.
"What!" said the Colonel in a hurried whisper.

"Could you make them out ?" "Yes, sir; two or three hundred, I should say." "You got near enough to see ?" "I couldn't see much, sir; but I could hear.

They seemed to spread right across from the side I was on." "Here, you, Moray," said the Colonel, turning to me, for at this announcement I had stood fast.

"Get back to your post; and I beg your pardon .-- Yes; who are you ?"--for another scout came in to endorse the words of the first.

He had scouted down the other side of the widening pass, and according to his report the enemy could not be a quarter of a mile away.
"Thank goodness!" said the Colonel fervently.