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THE FOLLOWER OF TRAILS.
The reader will not have forgotten the situation in which the escort of chasseurs found the Chambery mail-coach.
The first thing they did was to look for the obstacle which prevented Roland from getting out.

They found the padlock and wrenched off the door.
Roland bounded from the coach like a tiger from its cage.

We have said that the ground was covered with snow.

Roland, hunter and soldier, had but one idea--to follow the trail of the Companions of Jehu.