"Read the note, and oh Uncle Wesley, tell me what it means!" Sinton's face was a study.

"I don't know what it means," he said.

"Only one thing is clear.

It means some beast who doesn't really want to harm you has got his eye on you, and he is telling you plain as he can, not to give him a chance.

You got to keep along the roads, in the open, and not let the biggest moth that ever flew toll you out of hearing of us, or your mother.