"It is quite hard here and they didn't leave much impression."
"Here it is again!" cried Rand a little later, when they came to a
spot of soft earth. "Here is Pepper's track. I think I would know
it anywhere now."
"Good!" commended the colonel; "you are learning fast. You will be
able soon to follow any trail."
Going under the colonel's guidance the boys followed the trail
through the woods until it came out again on the road, where Gerald
and Pepper were waiting for them.
"Not at all bad for a first attempt," said the colonel. "We will
try it again some day soon."
Which happened sooner and in a more unexpected way than any of them
anticipated.
CHAPTER XIII
A CHALLENGE
"Well done, Pepper!" cried Rand, as the former, drawing back a
stout bow nearly as tall as himself, let fly an arrow that struck
in the third circle of the target set up at the opposite end of
the green.
"'Tis a promising laddie ye are," commented Gerald Moore after a
preliminary flourish of his bugle. "Ave ye live to be a hundhred
and don't lave aff practice 'tis a foine shot ye'll be, I dunno.
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