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Updated: June 11, 2025
If there had been hoofprints to show which way the boys had gone, the rain had washed them so that they looked dim and old and gave him little help.
At the river's edge the sands were pricked with hoofprints, where the struggle to carry away the dead seemed to have reached clear into the thin yellow current of the Arkansas, although no trail led out on the far side of the stream. "That's the very copper cuss with yellow trimmings who had me down when that arrow stopped me," Beverly exclaimed.
The false trail forked, showing that the six had separated into two parties of three riders, each aiming to pass so the hoofprints would lead one to believe around the two ends of a lone hill that sat squarely down on the mesa like a stone treasure chest dropped there by the gods when the world was young. The Happy Family drew rein and eyed the parting of the ways dubiously.
Where a faint, little-used trail went obliquely down the bluff to the creek bottom, Lance saw again the hoofprints which the rocky ground had failed to reveal. He could see no reason for taking this roundabout course to go up the creek, but he sent Coaley down the trail, reached the bottom and discovered that the tracks once more struck off into rocky ground.
They also were shattered practically to match-sticks. The look of the ground about the building-sites was simply and purely impossible. It was a mass of hoofprints. Cattle by thousands and tens of thousands had trampled everything. Cattle had burst in the wooden sides of the buildings. Cattle had piled themselves up against the beams upholding roofs until the buildings collapsed.
I reckon I hev enough ridin' to do. Now, Bill, if you've sich dog-gone good eyes mebbe you seen somethin' on the way out?" "Nels, I hevn't seen nothin'," he replied, bluntly. His levity disappeared, and the red wrinkles narrowed round his searching eyes. "Jest take a squint at these hoss tracks," said Nels, and he drew Stillwell a few paces aside and pointed to large hoofprints in the dust.
The little town was asleep; hardly a track showed in the streets beyond the hoofprints of a horse leading up the principal thoroughfare and on out to the Georgeville road. Onward, until before them was the bleak, rat-ridden old roadhouse which formed Laura's home, and a light was gleaming within. Silently the pursuers dismounted and started forward, only to stop short.
We had come into a veritable gulf of mountain peaks, sharp at their bare summits like teeth, holding fields of snow lower down, and glittering still in full day up there, while down among our pines and parks the afternoon was growing sombre. All the while the fresh hoofprints of the horse and the fresh footprints of the man preceded us.
We are almost sure the thieves headed this way down the river, for where the county road meets the river road we examined the hoofprints as best we could, and decided the horses turned this way." "Yes, Judge, I'll help you all I can, and will be down in a hurry."
"Colonel Hertford might do them a lot of damage if he could fall on them with his cavalry," said the sergeant thoughtfully. "So he could," said Dick, "but I imagine that General Grant wants the colonel to come at once." They turned northward now and an hour later found numerous hoofprints in a narrow road.
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