_The trail was lost_! "Hold! There is hope yet," said Basil.

"We may find it by making a wider circuit.

Take my bridle," continued he, throwing himself from his horse.

"Marengo!--up, Marengo!" The dog obeyed the call, uttered in accents of command; and came running up to the feet of his master.

The latter, telling Lucien to follow with the horses, struck off over the prairie.
He walked slowly, bent forward and downward, carefully observing the ground as he went.