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Updated: June 8, 2025
It was light enough so I could see pretty well by this time; but I heard the crunching of the crust by the horses' feet before I could see them at all. Then I saw the whole gang coming on a dog-trot along the grade, two abreast, with one ahead, seven pleasant neighbors coming to call on me at Track's End.
The deep imprints of his heeled boots in the soft snow showed that he ran for only a short distance at a time a hundred yards or less and that after each running spell he brought the pack to a walk. He was heavy and lacked endurance, and this discovery brought a low cry of exultation to Jan's lips. He fell into a dog-trot.
There was a slight drop into a bridle-lane. The man on the gray turned and cantered quietly along it. He jumped a low heave-gate and followed the track beyond. In the next field he saw his quarry, hunting along at a little dog-trot. Joses seemed to have no fear of pursuit.
"There's a soldier, sir!" said Major Drummond, emphasizing his words with a smart blow of his riding-cane on his polished quarter-boots. "He's had us on a dog-trot since we started; up hill, down dale, across the cursed Sacandaga swamps, through fords chin-high! By gad, sir! allow me to tell you that nothing stopped us!
And when Hell's Half-Mile was thus in full eruption, the citizens of Redding stayed away from Water Street after dark. "Drive's in," said they, and had business elsewhere. And the next group of rivermen, hurrying toward the fun, broke into an eager dog-trot. "Taking the old town apart to-night," they told each other. "Let's get in the game." To-night, however, the street was comparatively quiet.
Churchill pulled the canoe up on the beach, seized Bondell's grip, and started on a limping dog-trot for the police post. "There's a canoe down there, consigned to you from Dawson," he hurled at the officer who answered his knock. "And there's a man in it pretty near dead. Nothing serious; only played out. Take care of him. I've got to rush. Good-by. Want to catch the Athenian."
I could no longer carry the shattered and bloody fragment of my rifle, and dropped it. Bullet-pouch, shot-pouch, powder-horn, water-bottle, hatchet I let fall, keeping only my knife, belt, and the thin, flat wallet which contained my letters from Lois and my journal. Even my cap I flung away, moving always forward on a dog-trot, and ever twisting my sweat-drenched head to look behind.
A woman came to us, at the door of a café, where the omnibus stopped in Falaise, and made a long and earnest harangue, of which I did not recognize one word. At length we started off on the last stage of our journey. Where could we be going to? I began to ask myself the question anxiously after we had crept on, at a dog-trot, for what seemed an interminable time.
"Come on," snorted Brent, "we've got to go to the livery stable and see if she's hired a mule." "If she's seeking to give us the slip, she's probably changed that plan too and set out on foot. It's a safe bet, though, that she didn't go without her precious money. Let's try the bank." They went, Brent needing to strike a sort of dog-trot to hold the long striding pace of the other.
Now all chance of it was snatched away. "Poor guess," said Charley Morton. The men, without other comment, shouldered their implements and set off on a dog-trot after their leader. The ranger merely fell back to the next natural barrier. "Now, let's see if we can't hold her, boys," said he. Twice again that day were these scenes reënacted. The same result obtained.
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