Having a fair horse, he gave it the gad and struck into a gallop. Soon
he entered upon the rough land, and from a rise saw a stream below and a
herd of cattle beyond, where the prairie began again; the railroad, and
a small red station house, with two or three low buildings about it.
He now understood that he had seen the red car on the far side of the
ravine, through which the stream flowed, and went down to the stream,
his horse sliding on its haunches amid a clatter of broken clay and
pebbles.
He was soon across and clambered up the other wall of the ravine, and
there in the clay found the impression of the tires of the red car.
"I'm all right now," he muttered to himself. "On the track of Checkers
and the robbers' automobile. I wonder where it will end."
He had no difficulty in following the tracks of the automobile for a
considerable distance, when the ravine ran out on that side and the bank
of the stream flattened; and he rode along it, following the trail with
ease.
Then the bank of the stream rose again, and the water flowed through a
ravine, into which the red car had entered.
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