CHAPTER V.
AT THE END OF THE TRAIL "The further we go the more mysterious this becomes," mused Dick, as he and Darrin stood together over a clump of faintly-marked footprints, a quarter of an hour later.
"How does the mystery increase ?" Darrin inquired.
"For one thing, we don't always find the bootmarks of the men who were with Mr.Dodge.

Yet once in a while we do.

There are the prints of all three.

When Theodore Dodge passed by this way the other two men were with him, or had him in sight.

And our course shows that the three were plunging deeper and deeper into the woods.