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CHAPTER XXVCOUNTIES AND CORNERSOUR enterprise of collecting all the counties ofScotland to bring home as trophies of the longour lastcampaign only became urgent uponmarch when we brought SIEGLINDA back fromInverness. That march lacked something indirectness, for it headed alternately for all thepoints of the compass, sweeping southwardthrough Perthshire, northward through Dumfriesshire,touching the West coast in Ayrshire and theEast in Berwickshire, twice crossing the wholebreadth of the country and once dipping over theborder into England. It was in fact a marchfrom Inverness to Haddington, via Stranraer,which isequivalent to a journey from London toParis via Berlin. But we were picking up andmarking off new counties all the way. Twocounties worried us above all the restHaddingtonand Clackmannan. And our two chiefturning-points were at the corners at Stranraerand Berwick-on-Tweed. Of the left-hand bottom214