Werper, with better success, traveled slowly onward until dawn, when, to his chagrin, he discovered a mounted Arab upon his
trail. It was one of Achmet Zek's minions, many of whom were scattered in all directions through the forest, searching for the fugitive Belgian.
Finally I could endure the suspense no longer, and, arming myself with my two Colt revolvers and a carbine, I strapped two belts of cartridges about me and catching my saddle horse, started down the
trail taken by Powell in the morning.
They were flying, getting over the ground, making the most of the packed
trail. Later on they would come to the unbroken
trail, where three miles an hour would constitute good going.
Kala did not wait to see more, but, turning, moved rapidly back along the
trail. She did not run; but, after the manner of her kind when not aroused, sought rather to avoid than to escape.
Increasing his gait but slightly he followed the tortuous windings of the
trail until suddenly just before him, where the
trail wound about the bole of a huge tree, he saw a young buck moving slowly ahead of him.
We're sagging south on the Long Trail--the
trail that is always new.'"
For instance, Charley, you are coming along the
trail. It is night.
The first thing to do when a
trail ceases to explain itself is to cast forward without leaving, your own confusing foot-marks on the ground.
His traces were fastened, the sled broken out, and with both men running they dashed out on to the river
trail.
Then the bull lifted her to his shoulder and turned back to the
trail toward the south from whence he had come.
Who the man and woman were he could not guess, but that the child was his was enough to keep him hot upon the
trail. He was sure that Rokoff would be following this trio, and so he felt confident that so long as he could keep upon the Russian's
trail he would be winning so much nearer to the time he might snatch his son from the dangers and horrors that menaced him.
Then the drifting shadow of a huge butterfly attracted his attention, and soon he was nosing through the jungle on the
trail of a wood-rat.
