Suddenly she said: "Gretchen, there are Injuns in the pines.

Watch!" Gretchen looked out, but saw nothing.
The shadows deepened.
"I have twice seen Injuns passing from tree to tree and hiding.

Why are they there?
There--look!" A sinewy form in the shadows of the pines appeared and disappeared.
Gretchen saw it.
"They mean evil, or they would not hide.

Gretchen, what shall we do ?" Mrs.Woods closed the door and barred it, took down the rifle from the side of the room, and looked out through a crevice in the split shutter.
There was a silence for a time; then Mrs.Woods moved and said: "They are coming toward the house, passing from one tree to another.

They mean revenge--I feel it--revenge on me, and Benjamin--he is the leader of it." The flitting of shadowy forms among the pines grew alarming.