The Yankee Champion — page 124: what you’re looking at

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THE YANKEE CHAMPION. 117 down to the ground and began to examine the marks. “T’m right,’’ he uttered. ‘‘Here are the deep prints of the feet of a man and boy where they landed from the window.”’ “Now, which way ’d they go, I wonder?’’ said Dow, who felt it necessary to say something. “We'll soon find that,’’? returned Wimper, at the same time moving slowly away from the building with the lantern toward the ground. ‘‘Here are their tracks as plain as daylight on the frost. Come along this way.’’ _ Luke and Gideon had indeed left pretty plain footprints behind them in the frost, and the quick eye of the Indian readily detected them. At length the party reached the point where the fugitives had entered the wood, and here, of course, the tracks were lost. ‘““Now,’’ said Wimper, ‘‘we must separate. Let us look sharp and keep our ears open. They have evi- dently calculated to strike the river, and Ryan and myself will spread that way. Youtwo open to the northward farther. The boy cannot make his way so fast through the thick wood as we can, and if we are sharp we may catch them. They can’t have over fifteen minutes the start. If you see them, fire, and at the first report the others will fly to the spot.”’ “EKgad, I'll fire,’’ valiantly uttered Dow, as he pulled his coat collar up about his ears. “But mind that you shoot the man first,” added Wimper, ‘‘for the boy can be easily taken after that.’’ 3 — “We'll shoot ’em both.’’ ‘Now for it, men. Quick is the word. If they es- Cape us we are lost.”’ <S co Eomicboo