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 was reconnoitring the farms that lay in the valley parallel to the river. As in the other great hunts, the hounds took his track at the roadway which paralleled the river and the hunt was on. Twelve of the horsemen followed the pack and in addition to the deep baying of the hounds there was the sound of hoofs of the flying horses. The other eight horsemen were stationed in the roadway at intervals of about forty rods to head Redcoat off should he turn back towards the mountain. The plan was to run him down in the area between the road and the river, so the amphitheatre upon which this tragedy was to be inacted was about three miles long and from a mile to a mile and a half wide.

Redcoat was not at all dismayed when he heard the pack break into full cry on his trail. It was a glorious morning for a run. The clear cold air made the blood tingle in his veins and his muscles contracted and recoiled like steel springs. Belly to earth he ran for the entire length of the arena and the straining hounds and the racing horse-