In which two young comrades, threading their way through the wind-swept Tunstall Forest, chance upon the smouldering ruins of an ancient house and the secretive assembly of a roving band of outlaws, whose rough voices and fiery talk betray a brewing storm of vengeance and forest lawlessness. The silent tension of the scene is shattered by a sharp arrow, summoning the men to swift action and leaving the quiet hollow to solitude once more.