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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: start of sixty minutes, and it would require six hours of rapid traveling to
gain the Delaware town.
"Reckon he'll make fer home," muttered Wetzel, following the trail with all
possible speed.
The hunter's method of trailing an Indian was singular. Intuition played as
great a part as sight. He seemed always to divine his victim's intention. Once
on the trail he was as hard to shake off as a bloodhound. Yet he did not, by
any means, always stick to the Indian's footsteps. With Wetzel the direction
was of the greatest importance.
For half a mile he closely followed the Delaware's plainly marked trail. Then
he stopped to take a quick survey of the forest before him. He abruptly left
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