The man's eyes bored steadily into the screen of leaves upon the opposite side of the
trail. Gradually a form took shape beyond them--a tawny form, grim and terrible, with yellow-green eyes glaring fearsomely across the narrow
trail straight into his.
I knew that Powell would need me now if ever, and I instantly urged my horse to his topmost speed up the narrow and difficult mountain
trail.
The
trail, at a bend, plunged out across the river.
Roaring and shrieking the apes dashed toward Kulonga, but that wary savage was fleeing down the
trail like a frightened antelope.
A blundering charge made Sheeta, for with the first crash of his spotted body through the foliage verging the
trail, Bara gave a single startled backward glance and was gone.
Maybe she make fun, too, so I say, 'Let me see thousand dollars.' And that woman, that young woman, all alone on the
trail, there in the snow, she take out one thousand dollars, in greenbacks, and she put them in my hand.
"Now, lest by crossing each other's tracks we foul the signs, let each take one
trail. I am Big Foot, Little Brother, and thou art Little Foot, the Gond."
A Scotch half-breed took charge of him and his mates, and in company with a dozen other dog-teams he started back over the weary
trail to Dawson.
The latter laid Gazan in Mumga's arms with a parting: "If he dies Tarzan will kill you," and he followed after the brown-skinned figure that already was moving at a slow trot along the jungle
trail.
One day as he was thus engaged, tracking an unsuspecting savage, he came upon the fellow in the act of hurling a spear at a wounded white man who crouched in a clump of bush at the
trail's side.
Forgotten was the stale wood-rat as he followed the new
trail. Curiosity and play impelled him.
A light snow had fallen, obliterating the path, but making the young man's
trail conspicuous; each footprint was plainly defined.