After getting beyond the assistance of verbal directions, the anxious husband had recourse to the usual
signs of a trail, in order to follow the fugitives. This he also found a task of no difficulty, until he reached
the hard and unyielding soil of the rolling prairies. Here, indeed, he was completely at fault. He found
himself, at length, compelled to divide his followers, appointing a place of rendezvous at a distant day,
and to endeavour to find the lost trail by multiplying, as much as possible, the number of his eyes. He
had been alone a week, when accident brought him in contact with the trapper and the bee-hunter. Part
of their interview has been related, and the reader can readily imagine the explanations that succeeded
the tale he recounted, and which led, as has already been seen, to the recovery of his bride.