Chapter 13
THE TRACK IN THE FOREST.Their camp was about a mile from the Kootenai River, and close
to a stream of depth sufficient to carry a canoe; while, a little
way north of their camp, a beautiful spring of clear water gurgled
out from under a little bank, and added its portion to the larger
stream that flowed eastward to the river.
There was a little peculiarity about the spring, which made it
one to remember—or, rather, two to remember, for it was really a
twin, and its sister stream slipped from the other side of the
narrow ledge and ran north for a little way, and then turned to the
east and emptied into the Kootenai, not a hundred yards from the
stream into which its mate had run.
The two springs were not twenty feet apart, and lay direct north
and south from each oth
