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A mile or two further on the track crossed the dry bed of a small stream. In the sand Dermot noticed to his surprise the heel-mark of a boot among the footprints of the raiders, it being most unusual for Bhuttias to be shod. As his rider knelt down to examine the tracks, Badshah stretched out his trunk and smelt them as though he understood the object of their mission.
After Fred's third missile had rung upon the rocks below, she snatched up a stone and stepped impatiently out on the ledge in front of him. He caught her by the elbows and pulled her back. "Not so close, you silly! You'll spin yourself off in a minute." "You went that close. There's your heel-mark," she retorted. "Well, I know how. That makes a difference." He drew a mark in the dust with his toe.
There was something eerie about this pursuit, if pursuit it was, for while the horse had been watered from the bucket at the well, its rider had not left a track. Not a heel-mark, not a nail-point, and the last of the water had been dropped craftily on the spot where he had mounted. That was enough Wunpost knew he had met his match.
The point at which this wadi commenced was about a mile or so nearer to the enemy than the line of our positions opposite Gaza. The feature might be compared to a heel-mark in soft ground. On the convex side were slight ridges with gentle forward slopes; on the concave were steep escarpments.
Lefever took de Spain in to the bar, showed him the open sash, and pointed to the heel-prints. De Spain stepped through the window, Lefever following. An examination showed the slide of a spur-rowel behind one heel-mark and indications of a hasty jump. While they bent over the signs that seemed to connect their quarry with the place, a door opened across the courtyard, and Pedro appeared.
And that day dated the silent enmity between Brant and Butler, which never healed. This I gathered amid all their chit-chat while we stood under the willows near the spring, watching Ruyven pace the distance from the post back across the greensward towards us. Then, making his heel-mark in the grass, he took a green willow wand and set it, all feathered, in the turf.
In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself. I employed a lawyer for years, until one day I saw him kick his ball out of a heel-mark. I removed my business from his charge next morning. He has not yet run off with any trust-funds, but there is a nasty gleam in his eye, and I am convinced that it is only a question of time. Golf, my dear fellow, is the infallible test.
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