He continued to affirm that it must be the man he had seen in the playground on the occasion of the first meeting of the supper club; and that the footprint in the dust had been a man's, and much larger than Kennedy's boot could have produced.

They had travelled all that afternoon and evening on the river ice, hard as iron, retaining no trace of footprint or of runner possible to verify even in daylight.

Two months later Calébar returned, and was shown the almost obliterated footprint.

Months rolled by; the saddle was apparently forgotten; but a year and a half later, as the rastreador was again at Buenos Ayres, a footprint in the street attracted his notice.

He patiently followed the course of the acequia for a few rods, and suddenly halting, said to his companions, "Here is the spot at which he left the canal; there is no trail,not a footprint,but do you see those drops of water upon the grass?"

From the length of the footprint it was very doubtful if the man were tall, and certainly by the clearness of the indentation, the man was heavy.

III.The Footprint

I had no sleep that night; but my terror gradually wore off, and after some days I ventured down to the beach to take measure of the footprint by my own.

No sign of Indians could be discovered, save one small footprint, which was instantly pronounced to be that of a squaw.

Chronology has a good groundwork and it will have to observe every footprint of vanishing creeds.

It was the imprint of a wet foot on the oilcloth of the passage; not an ordinary footprint, but a queer, soft, flabby, spreading imprint, that gave me a feeling of extraordinary horror.

" He flashed his lamp on a fresh footprint in the soft soil at the side of the path.

But he was again disappointed, for the buffalo tracks still continued, and the ground became less capable of showing a footprint.

"Have I?" glancing down carelessly until she saw each dainty footprint plainly depicted on the white marble, side by side with Peter's heavier tracks.

To prove that he did so they show you his footprint.

A little temple has been built over the footprint.

Men, women, and children climb the mountain, to lay little gifts before the footprint, and to strew sweet flowers about it.

One footprint does not lead anywhere, but two do, and given three footprints, a pathway is indicated.

"Besides," he added, opening the door, "there's no footprint here nor outside.

The lone footprint.

The lone footprint.

The lone footprint, by Frances K. Judd, pseud. of Harriet S. Adams & Edna C. Squier.

"There was no sign of a footprint, and nobody could have walked there without making tracks.

He could recognize the footprint of his favorite saddle pony among a thousand others.

The footprint in the sand was not more suggestive to Robinson Crusoe than was this weather-beaten, abandoned whale-boat to us, for it showed that somewhere in the vicinity were shelter and life.