They would fain have spent half an hour in the delicious water, so soft and cool and deep.

But Dick was in a self- denying mood, and would not allow his men more than ten minutes.

That, however, was as good as an hour's nap; and when, after dressing and picking up the scent, they took up the running again, it was like a new start.
Half-a-mile down, they came on to the country road, and here suddenly the scent vanished.

High or low they could not find it.

It neither crossed the road, nor went up the road, nor went down the road.