She could never have allowed a challenge like that to pass.
"Ha! ha! We are in for a race, Betty.

if you beat him, start or no start, you will have accomplished something never done before," said Col.

Zane.
"Come, Silas, step off twenty paces and make them long ones," said Betty, who was in earnest.
"We'll make it forty paces," said Silas, as he commenced taking immense strides.
"What is Lewis looking at ?" remarked Col.

Zane's wife.
Wetzel, in taking his position for the race, had faced the river.
Mrs.Zane had seen him start suddenly, straighten up and for a moment stand like a statue.

Her exclamation drew he attention of the others to the hunter.
"Look!" he cried, waving his hand toward the river.
"I declare, Wetzel, you are always seeing something.