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From his pocket-book he took a piece of white paper as I had seen him do before, and with his scissors, cut out the shape of the neat bootmarks that were on the ground. Then he fitted the new paper pattern with the one he had previously made the two were exactly alike. Rising, Rouletabille exclaimed again: "The deuce!" Presently he added: "Yet I believe Monsieur Robert Darzac to be an honest man."
Rube and Isa Blagg both searched, but there was no likelihood of their finding any bootmarks on the grass. Rube went back to the path leading up from the landing-place. There had been heavy rain on the previous afternoon, and the ground was still moist enough to show the faint impressions of his own and Kiddie's moccasins, and yet more distinctly the marks of Isa Blagg's heavy boots.
"The further we go the more mysterious this becomes," mused Dick, as he and Darrin stood together over a clump of faintly-marked footprints, a quarter of an hour later. "How does the mystery increase?" Darrin inquired. "For one thing, we don't always find the bootmarks of the men who were with Mr. Dodge. Yet once in a while we do. There are the prints of all three.
"Hallo!" he cried. "Come an' look here, Kiddie. What d'you make of this?" He was staring down at the marks of a horse's shoes, mingled with the impressions of a man's hob-nailed boots. "Looks like the tracks of your big horse Regent, don't it?" he questioned. "An' the bootmarks are the same's the one near the canoe." Kiddie did not wait to make conjectures. He strode quickly towards the stables.
I admit that Hill is a tainted witness, but they'll find it pretty hard to break down his story. We've tested it in every way and find it stands. Then there are the bootmarks outside the window. Birchill's boots fit them to the smallest fraction of an inch.
You get out a hundred feet or so to the right. And we'll move as fast as we can, now." The wisdom of this plan was soon apparent, for it was Dave Darrin who discovered the next footprint. He summoned Dick Prescott with a sharp hiss. "Yes; all right," nodded Dick, joining his comrade and gazing down at one of the narrow bootmarks. "But don't send a long signal again, Dave.
"Those bootmarks," added Mr. Damon, "are doubtless those of that fellow who jumped upon the running board of the car." "Humph! And who robbed me of my wallet," added Tom musingly. "Well, it might be. And, if so, Koku is right. The enemy has come." "Me kill!" exclaimed the giant, stretching himself to his full height.
"The clue by which Penreath was virtually convicted the track of bootmarks to the pit was an accidental one so far as Charles was concerned. It is strange to think that Chance, which removed the clues Charles deliberately placed in the room, should have achieved Charles' aim by directing suspicion to Penreath in a different, yet more convincing manner.
Then, for a short time, they were obliged to explore carefully ere they came again upon one of the bootmarks of fastidious Banker Dodge. It was a hundred feet further on, in a bit of soft mould, that the next bootprint was found.
Presently he picked it up again; but now there was only her little bootmarks to follow." "A goot dog would be wort vivty men dere, I tink," suggested Helsmok. "Same thought struck several of us, but it did n't strike Bob," replied Thompson.
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