"If it's Pedro, he's _bad_!" Thorpe was taking the chain.

Only the girl saw the look that came for an instant into McCready's face.

It made her shiver.

A few minutes before, when the train had first stopped at Les Pas, she had offered her hand to this man and she had seen the same thing then.

But even as she shuddered she recalled the many things her husband had told her of the forest people.