Here he halted a moment, until he could determine the direction in which he had approached this spot.

That was at length resolved to his satisfaction; and he rode slowly in the back-track.

After a few lengths of his horse had been passed over, the trail doubled.

Basil followed the double, and came back, passing almost over the same ground again.

Again it doubled as before, and again and again, without going a hundred yards from the place where the bird had been shot.