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They certainly won't show on the road itself. It is too hard." At the crossing we stopped and Kennedy dropped down on his hands and knees again with the light. "There it is," he exclaimed. "The same make of anti-skid tire, at least. There was a cut in the rear tire just like this. See? It is the finger-print of the motor car. I think we are right. Turn up here and run slowly."
"Of course," Garrick muttered to me, "if the anti-skid marks of the tires were different, it would have proved nothing, just as in the other case where we looked for the tire prints. But here, too, a glance shows that at least it is the same make of tires." He continued his comparison. It did not take me long to surmise what he was doing.
Soon they reached what was known as "The Shallows," a spot where the river broadened out, and was filled with loose stones and sandbars. By the rays from the headlights, which they now turned on to their fullest extent, the car was guided into the water. At the edge, they saw several tracks made, undoubtedly, by wagons, and one track evidently made by the anti-skid tires of an automobile.
Almost like a schoolboy in his glee, he was comparing the little round circles made by the metal insertions in an "anti-skid" automobile tire. Time and again I had seen imprints like that left in the dust and grease of an asphalted street or the mud of a road. It had never occurred to me that they might be used in any way.
Very decidedly, there in the road, the little anti-skid marks on the tread of the tire showed some worn, some cut but with each revolution the same marks reappearing unmistakably. More than that, it was an unusual make of tire. Craig was actually studying the finger prints, so to speak, of an automobile! More slowly now and carefully, we proceeded, for a mistake meant losing the trail of Elaine.
It opened on a sunk road running between the park wall and a copsewood containing some abandoned quarries. M. Filleul stooped forward: the dust of the road bore marks of anti-skid pneumatic tires. Raymonde and Victor remembered that, after the shot, they had seemed to hear the throb of a motor-car. The magistrate suggested: "The man must have joined his confederates." "Impossible!" cried Victor.
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