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Thefar over, their

eyes fixed on the ground Suddenly one of them stood erect and tossed his

arms in the air and shouted loudly Other men ran to him, and another far

down the track repeated the shout and the gesture to another far in his

rear; this man took it up, and shouted and waved to a fourth nal back to town There ca, loud whistles frorew

black with people pouring out fro

from the fields and woods and underbrush on both sides of the railway

Briscoe paused for the last tian to walk slowly toward the

e in theto points, both northwest and southeast, in the clean-

washed air, like exa-book About

seventy miles to the west and north lay Rouen; and, in the saiven, the track was crossed by

a road leading directly south to Six-Cross-Roads

The embankment had been newly ballasted with sand What had been

discovered was a broad brown stain on the south slope near the top There

were sht; and

there were deep boot-prints in the sand Men were exa It was Lige Willetts who had found