It seems to lead anywhere but towards the waterfall.

This is an important discovery, Mr.Ransom, and may lead to conclusions such as we might not otherwise have presumed to entertain, especially if we come upon an impression clear enough to point in which direction the person making it was going." "Here is what you want," Ransom assured him in a low and curiously smothered voice.

He was evidently greatly excited by this result of their inquiries, for all his apparent quiet and precise movements.

"It's a woman's step, and that woman was going from the ell when she left these tokens of her passage behind her.

Going! and as you say not in the direction of the waterfall." "Hush! I see some one at the kitchen window.