Werper could have screamed in fright, but up the
trail was coming the messenger of another death, equally sure and no less terrible.
I had forged ahead for perhaps a mile or more without hearing further sounds, when the
trail suddenly debouched onto a small, open plateau near the summit of the pass.
the
trail largely by instinct; and Daylight knew that his time-estimate had been right.
He knew the windings of the elephant
trail along which Kala's murderer had flown, and so he cut straight through the jungle to intercept the black warrior who was evidently following the tortuous detours of the
trail.
His rage had become an almost equally consuming passion with his hunger, so that now, as his delicate nostrils apprised him of the recent passage of man, he lowered his head and rumbled forth a thunderous roar, and at a swift walk, careless of the noise he made, set forth upon the
trail of his intended quarry.
Sometimes, on
trail, she makes practice with revolver.
Bagheera leaped back to the original
trail, leaving Mowgli stooping above the curious narrow track of the wild little man of the woods.
This meant a soft
trail, greater friction on the runners, and heavier pulling for the dogs; yet the drivers were fair through it all, and did their best for the animals.
His judgment told him the natural
trail for a quarry to follow, so that he need but note the most apparent marks upon the way, and today the
trail of Toog was as plain to him as type upon a printed page to you or me.
This was the matter: the
trail of the young man had abruptly ended, and all beyond was smooth, unbroken snow.
Yet here are we, within a short range of the Scaroons, and not a sign of a
trail have we crossed!
The man, however, declared that he had seen an Indian advancing, cautiously, along the
trail which they had made in coming to the encampment; who, the moment he was perceived, had thrown himself on the ground, and disappeared.
