But the smile ceased as his eye suddenly caught his own name.
A dozen lines were written in pencil on what seemed to be a blank leaf originally torn from some book.

He trembled so that he was obliged to sit down to read these words:-- "When you get this keep away from the woods.

Dunn and another man are in deadly pursuit of you and your companion.

I overheard their plan to surprise you in our cabin.

_Don't go there_, and I will delay them and put them off the scent.