17/42 At the second turn, when his face happened to be set toward the open heath, he noticed another foot-passenger--apparently a man--far away in the empty distance. Was the person coming toward him? The stranger was doubtless advancing too, so rapidly did his figure now reveal itself, beyond all doubt, as the figure of a man. A few minutes more and Arnold fancied he recognized it. There was no mistaking the lithe strength and grace of _that_ man, and the smooth easy swiftness with which he covered his ground. |