Instead of fleeing away from the main body they were veering around, so that, if the change of course continued, they would return to the neighbourhood from which they started.
Panic-smitten cattle are not apt to do a thing of that kind of their own accord.

Some cause, and a strong one, too, must have effected this diversion in the line of flight.

All at once, above the din, sounded the penetrating voice of a man, who was striving with herculean energy to change the course of the wild animals.
One sound of that voice was sufficient to identify it as Budd Hankinson's.

He must have played his cards well to have done all this in so brief a space of time.
And such had been the case beyond a doubt.

Budd suspected from the first what did not enter Grizzly's mind until it flashed upon him as described.