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Updated: June 10, 2025
'I suppose he fell in love with her. 'Pooh! pooh! He's just as happy now with one of his own people. 'Did she die very soon? They didn't tease her to death, did they? 'Oh, dear, no! The king worshipped her very footmarks. 'What made her die, then? Didn't the air agree with her? 'She died when the young prince was born. 'How silly of her! We never do that.
"What can they do that we can't? They can fight, and fight hard I 've seen 'em, but so can we," he continued, extending his brawny arm; "and they can march, too, I've seen their bloody footmarks in the snow; but there were sailormen there that kept right alongside of 'em and did all that they could do. Oh, I forgot one thing they can ride horses, that's one thing I could never learn at all!
The day following, I visited the nearest point from which the cries were heard, but I could discern no sign of the sufferer, nor could I even trace footmarks; this, however, is not remarkable, as they would speedily be obliterated by the many reptiles nurtured in the morass.
They could see their footmarks behind them, but in front there was not a trace left. "Go ahead," said Tony. "The stag kept a straight line, and we have only to look behind us and see that ours is straight and we shall soon find the blaze." Rob did not think this. He was sure before they had gone far that they were bending very much, now to one side, now to the other. No sun shone.
Our eyes fell upon these tracks at the same moment, and we each gave a cry of horror, and stood gazing speechlessly at them. For there, in those blurred footmarks, the whole drama was revealed. Five had gone down, but only three had returned. None shall ever know the details of that strange tragedy. There was no mark of struggle nor sign of attempt at escape.
"That's what he said himself, and there seems no imaginable reason why he should have worn them, unless " Mark hesitated for a moment, and then went on in a tone perhaps rather too positive to carry complete conviction to a critical ear. "Of course not. He can't have put them on after dinner. The idea is ludicrous. He must have made those footmarks earlier in the day."
Whoever they had been, however and the boys, as we know, had a shrewd guess at their identity they had been too cunning to take the path, but had apparently, judging from the absence of all footmarks, made their way to the house through the coarse grass that grew on each side of the way. "Well, what are we going to do about it?" Tubby inquired, as they speeded back toward home.
The footmarks and the places where the elephants had been rolling were by now filled with water, and the mud underneath was in places hard and slippery.
Then he glanced sharply through the iron railings in search of footmarks, but saw none, for Andrew uttered a warning "Take care," and he looked straight before him again as he went out by the Park gate, and turned back and through the streets till they reached the front of the house, where men were nailing up boards, and a couple of soldiers stood on duty, marching up and down, as if some royal personage were within.
There were no footmarks and no other evidence as to his identity. I was at my wits' ends, when suddenly the happy thought occurred to me that you were in the town, and I came straight round to put the matter into your hands. Do help me, Mr. Holmes! You see my dilemma.
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