He snapped and gave a short snarling yelp, and vanished.
Clarence returned with a victorious air to his companion.

But she was gazing intently in the opposite direction, and for the first time he discovered that the coyote had been leading them half round a circle.
"Kla'uns," said Susy, with a hysterical little laugh.
"Well ?" "The wagon's gone." Clarence started.

It was true.

Not only their wagon, but the whole train of oxen and teamsters had utterly disappeared, vanishing as completely as if they had been caught up in a whirlwind or engulfed in the earth! Even the low cloud of dust that usually marked their distant course by day was nowhere to be seen.

The long level plain stretched before them to the setting sun, without a sign or trace of moving life or animation.
That great blue crystal bowl, filled with dust and fire by day, with stars and darkness by night, which had always seemed to drop its rim round them everywhere and shut them in, seemed to them now to have been lifted to let the train pass out, and then closed down upon them forever..