The retreating footsteps become fainter and fainter, and I think we shall have peace for to-day.

His footsteps on the bronze flooring, and the rustling of his garments as he went about the hut doing what was requisite, were surprisingly sharp and distinct noises in a vast silence and in an illimitable loneliness.

Footsteps are rapidly approachingthe barrel of a gun gleams out of the darknessa shot is firedthe report wanders off in endless reverberation among the rocksanother shot, and another, in instant succession, answer each other from behind the villa.

No matter where he fled, every footstep behind him would be the footfall of Riley Sinclair, and behind every closed door would stand the same ominous figure.

Her footsteps were as soundless as the fall of tender leaves, and her garments made no more rustle than the unfolding of a flower.