FOLLOWING A CONCEALED TRAIL 119 



directed all his men to spur along to the top of 

 that elevation. 



A little behind the others, carefully following 

 the trail, was George Moore. He did not hear 

 the orders. The posse stirring dust a quarter of 

 a mile up the road, hearing two shots, came hur- 

 rying back. 



"If this thief is Scott Ashton, who is carrying 

 $20,000 of the insides of the Pinyon bank, you 

 will never catch up to him unless you stick to 

 his trail/' said Moore. "We shall be lucky if 

 we are able to follow it. He often got away 

 from the Apaches by fooling them with new 

 trail tricks. He has already doubled on us." 



The men on the San Pablo cattle ranch in New 

 Mexico knew that George Moore was one of the 

 best cowboys in the outfit, but no one suspected 

 that he was one of the best trailers a trail de- 

 tective. 



Knowledge of human nature, a wide-awake 

 imagination, experience, and peculiar skill are 

 required to make a good trailer. These qualifi- 

 cations he must have in order to see through the 

 schemes of the man who is trying to get away. 

 With a moderate start a skilful trail man will 

 readily escape from a well-equipped posse unless 

 someone in pursuit knows the tricks and the 

 strategy of trailing. The cunning fox and the 

 grizzly bear masters in trail concealing com- 



