Then Alton, stretching himself at full length beside the fire, lighted his pipe.
"You found nothing after I left you where the trail split tip ?" he said.
"No," said Okanagan.

"Anyway, not for more than a mile.

Ran into rock and gravel, and lost the trail.

Crawled round in rings most of the day, and couldn't strike it again.

Guess the beast swam the river and lit out for home." "Well," said Alton dryly, "I found more than that, for I ran into a man's trail, and it wasn't very old.