 While they are recovering, tended by an increasingly demented Sally, Peter’s wife betrays them to the government forces and they are killed by a sergeant.Shepherds find Sally with a baby girl frozen to death on the grave of M'Kenzie and Peter.In spite of the largely unrelieved tragedy of its third part, "Three Perils" contains more comedy than Hogg’s better-known "Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner".