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Every morning, without fail, he and William fought every minute from breakfast to starting time. From his actions you would think that William had never seen a pack before, and expected it to bite him fatally if he came within twenty feet of it. You could tell Casey's camp by the manner in which the sagebrush was trampled and the sand scored with small hoofprints in a wide circle around it.
Lennon pointed to the hoofprints of a horse that had come down the cañon at a gallop. "This must be the trail of our renegade," he said. Carmena paused to fix him with a somber gaze. "The whole bunch of bronchos may be up here, but it's the only way into the Basin; and, once in, they may get behind us. Now's your chance to quit your last chance." This time Lennon was ready for her.
He was taking it for granted that Warfield and Hawkins would stop when it became too dark to follow the hoofprints, and without Jack to show them the way they would perforce remain where they were until daybreak. They would do that, he reasoned, if they were sincere in wanting to overtake Lorraine and in their ignorance that they were also following Al Woodruff.
Out in the clearing, he dropped his head, howled, flung half round, and began to follow tracks; but the scent was enough for him without the tracks. They were the footprints, the sleigh-trail, and the hoofprints of the beaters, the hunters, and the pack-horses, loaded with game from the hunt of the day that had just gone.
He followed cautiously, up the wind, noiseless as a leopard, his sagacious eyes taking note of every detail about him. Presently he came to a spot where the trail was broken. There was a twenty-foot gap to the next hoofprints, and these went off at right angles to the direction which the quarry had hitherto been pursuing.
He thought of the wild statement of the girl about seeing some one shoot a man and wondered briefly if there could be a basis of truth in what she said. But the road showed no sign of a struggle, though there were, here and there, hoofprints half washed out with the rain. Lone went back to his horse and rode on, still looking for the bag.
They stared at the hoofprints in the road, but there were too many of them to make anything of the marks. "Stumped!" remarked Tom, laconically. "Let us wait a while. Perhaps, when the girls see we are not following, they will turn back." "All right; but we've made a fine pair of escorts, haven't we, Dick?" "We are not responsible for that buckle breaking." "That's so, too."
Tchertop-hanov showed the Jew the hoofprints at the fence, and all at once he slapped his thighs. 'Stay! he cried. 'Where did you buy the horse? 'In the district of Maloarchangel, at Verhosensky Fair, answered the Jew. 'Of whom? 'A Cossack. Stay! This Cossack; was he a young man or old? 'Middle-aged a steady man. 'And what was he like? What did he look like? A cunning rascal, I expect?
She drew near the object cautiously, leaning and looking in the half light of early morning. Presently assured, she reached out and picked it up, and rode on with it in her hand. Presently the trail merged into the river road, where hoofprints were so numerous that Frances was not skilful enough to follow it farther.
He showed him where a fox had followed silently after a snow-shoe rabbit; where a band of wolves had ploughed through the snow in the trail of a deer that was doomed, and in a dense run of timber where both moose and caribou had sought refuge from the storm he explained carefully the slight difference between the hoofprints of the two.
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