266 THE GOLD OF FAIRNILEE.

 

But Randal said he was not hungry; and,
besides, the people at Peel would tell the
Fairnilee people where they had gone.

‘We'll wish for things to eat when we get to
the Wishing Well,” said Randal. “All sorts
of good things—cold venison pasty, and every-
thing you like.”

So they began climbing the hill, and they
followed the Peel burn. It ran in and out,
winding this way and that, and when they did
get to the top of the hill, Jean was very tired
and very hungry. And she was very dis- ©
appointed. For she expected to see some
wonderful new country at her feet, and there
was only a low strip of sunburnt grass and
heather, and then another hill-top! So Jean
sat down, and the hot sun blazed on her, and
the flies buzzed about her and. tormented her.

“‘Come on, Jean,” said Randal; ‘‘it must be
over the next hill!”

So poor Jean got up and followed him, but
he walked far too fast for her. When she
reached the crest of the next hill, she found a
great cairn, or pile of grey stones; and beneath
her lay, far, far below, a deep valley covered
with woods, and a stream running through it
that she had never seen before.

That stream was the Yarrow.

Randal was nowhere in sight, and she did
not know where to look for the Wishing Well.
If she had walked straight forward through the