CHAPTER XIII.
A WARNING.
One evening, as Gretchen was sitting outside of the lodge, she saw the figure of a woman moving cautiously about in the dim openings of the fir-trees.

It was not the form of an Indian woman--its movement was mysterious.

Gretchen started up and stood looking into the darkening shadows of the firs.

Suddenly the form came out of the clearing--it was Mrs.Woods.She waved her hand and beckoned to Gretchen, and then drew back into the forest and disappeared.
Gretchen went toward the openings where Mrs.Woods had so suddenly and strangely appeared.

But no one was there.