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Under other circumstances, | might have stayed to regard such a_ scene, thongh not to admire it. On that inter- minable waste, there was naught to be admired, nor even sublimity; but no spectacle however sublime, howeve1 beautiful, could have won from me a

thought at that moment.

The trackers had already out, and were advancing, half concealed by the cloud of black ** stoor” flung up from the heels of their horses. For some distanee they moved straight on

without looking for the tracks of the steed. Betore meeting the fire, they had gone beyond the edge ot the ( hapar- ral; after a while, I observed them moving more slowly, with their eyes upon the ground as if looking for the) trail, I had doubts of their being able | either to find follow it now. ‘The shallow hoof-prints would be filled w ith | the debris of the burnt herbage—sure'y | they could no longer be traced ?

By myself, they conld not, by “a common man; but seemed that to the eyes of those keen hunters. the trail was as conspicuons as ever. Isaw that after searchivg a few seconds, they had taken it up, and were | once more movirg along, guided by the) tracks. Some slight hollows [| could) perceive, distributed here and ther 3 the ground, and scarcely distipguishab e| from the surrounding level. Certainly, | without having been told where they | were, I should not have known where | they were, I should uot have known | them to be the tracks of a horse. |

It proved a wide prairie, and we seem- ed to be crossing its central part. The fire had spread far.

At one place, nearly midway, where | the trail was faint, aud difficult to make | out, we stopped for a short while to give} the trackers time. A mementary curi-| osity induced me to gaze around. Awful) was the scene—awful without sublimity Even the thorny chaparral no longer relieved the eye; the outline of its low shrabbery had suuk below the horizon, and on all sides stretched the charred plain up to the rim of the leaden canopy, black—black~—-illimitable. Had I been alone, I might easily have yielded to the fancy, that the world was dead.

Gazing over this vast opacity, I for a moment forgot my companions, and fell | into a sort of lethargic stupor. I fancied that I, too, was dead or dreaming—I fancied that I was io hell—the Averous of the ancients. In my youth, I had the misfortune to be well schooled in ciassic lore, to the neglect of studies that are useful ; and often in life have the poeti- cal absurdities of Greek aud Latin my- thology intruded themselves upon my spirit—both asleep and -awake. I fan- cied, therefore, that some well-meaning Auchises had introduced ms to the reg- ions below and that black plain betore me was some landscape in the Kingdom of Pluto. Reflection—had | been cana- ble of that—would have convinced me of my error. No part of that mon- arch’s domivious can be so thin'y peo- pled.

I was summoned to reason again by the voices of my followers. ‘The lost trail had been found, and they were moving on.

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CHAPTER LXXI. THE TALK OF THE TRACKERS.

I spurReD after, and soon overtook Regardless of the dust, I rode close in the rear of the trackers, and listened to what they were sayin.

These “men of the mountains”—as they prided to call themselves—were peculiar, While engaged in a duty, such as the present, they would searce disclose their thoughts, even to me; mnch less were they communicative with the rest of my followiag, whom they were accus- tomed to regard as “ greeuhorus’—their tavorite appellation for all men who have not made the tour of the grand prairies. Notwithstanding that Standfield and Black were backwoodsmen and hunters by profession, Quackenboss a_ splendid shot, Le Blanc a regular “voyageur,” and the others more or less ekilied in wood- craft, all Were greeuhorus in the opirion of the trappers. . To be otherwisz, a man must have starved upon a ‘‘sage prairie” —‘‘run” buffalo by the Yellowstone or Platte—fought “ Injan,” and shot Indian —have well-nigh lost scalp or ears— Spent a winter in Pierre’s Hole upon Green River—or camped amid the snows of the Rocky Mountains? Some one of all these feats must needs have been per- formed ere the * greenhorn’ can matric- culate and take rank as a ‘mountain man.”

I of all my party was the only one who, in the eyes of Rube and Garey, was Dot a greevhorn, and even {—gentleman amateur that I was—was hardly up either in their confidence or their “craft.” It is jadeed true—with all classic ac- complishments, with my fine words, my fine horse, and my fine clothes—so long as we were withia the limits of prairie- land, I acknowledged these men as my superiors, They were my guides, my lustructors, my masters.

Since overtaking them on the trail, I had not asked them to give any opinion. Idreaded a direct auswer—far 1 had noticed something like a despairing look in the eyes of both.

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