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The track of the osprey's talons was deeply marked; and by the direction in which the creature was scored, it was evident the bird had seized it from behind. The old hawks made a considerable noise while the fish was being carried away; but they soon gave up their squealing, and, once more hovering out over the river, sailed about with their eyes bent upon the water below.

Bands of pink and crimson clouded the west, a thin cold wash of blue veiled the east; and overhead, bayward, landward, everywhere, the misting and the shadowing of the twilight. Between me and the white wave-bars at the end of the road gleamed a patch of silvery water the returning tide. As I watched, a silvery streamlet broke away and came running down the wheel track.

On a side track near the mean little 'dobe depot stood a private car, left there by the Mexican train that morning and doomed by an ineffectual schedule to ignobly await, amid squalid surroundings, connection with the next day's regular.

Phil's belief was that Number Two was disposing of the notes for Number One, and that this simple fact accounted for his power over him. 'And I'm going to follow their track, said Phil, tapping the clenched knuckles of his right hand upon the open palm of his left with a quiet vehemence, 'until I find out everything, if I follow it until I am gray.

Having carried across the principal part of the cargo, the people attempted to track the canoes along the edge of the rapid. With the first they succeeded, but the other, in which were the foreman and steersman, was overset and swept away by the current.

Using side stroke and breast-stroke alternately they went at it almost stroke for stroke about half a dozen yards apart, and until they were within thirty yards or so of the third swimmer, they were practically neck and neck, though Castellan had the advantage of what might be called the inside track. In other words he was a little nearer to the girl than the Englishman.

'Don't mention it, sir, said the landlord. And showing the way, they adjourned to the kitchen without further parley. The eldest of the party instantly seized the lady's cloak, that hung upon a clothes-horse, exclaiming: 'Ah! yes, James, it is hers. I knew we were on their track. 'Yes, it is hers, answered the nephew quietly, for he was much less excited than his companion.

That chance was lost, and Rumania found herself standing squarely in the track of the stream of ammunition which used to flow down from Duesseldorf to the Turks when I was at the front with the Turks, practically all the ammunition boxes I saw, and there were hundreds of them, were marked "Gut uber Rumanien" and, later, in Russia's path to Bulgaria and Servia.

His mates amuse themselves by chyacking him. "I've heard he's a dirty and slow cook," says one, addressing Eternity. "Ah!" says the cook, "you'll be glad to come to me for a pint of flour when I'm cooking and you're on the track, some day." Sunset. Some of the men sit at the end of the hut to get the full benefit of a breeze which comes from the west.

With this he rode on slightly ahead, and presently put his horse at a gentle canter which he did not increase as they neared the place where the black men ambushed. Every man of the group behaved well. None showed nervousness, even when one of the horses, conscious of hidden Maroons in the wood, gave a snort and made a sharp movement out of the track, in an attempt to get greater speed.