“I—I guess so,” Laura Belding said, slowly.
“It is,” declared Jess. “And he’s a tough looking character.”
“And he is acting quite as oddly as the girl did,” remarked Bobby. “What do you suppose it means?”
“He’s a Gypsy, too, I believe,” put in Eve Sitz, suddenly.
“Say! this is getting melodramatic,” laughed Laura Belding.
“Just like ‘The Gypsy’s Warning,’ or something quite as hair-raising, eh?” agreed Bobby.
“There! he’s coming out,” gasped Jess.
The man appeared for half a minute in the clearer space of the open road. He was staring all about, up and down the road, along the edge of the woods, and even into the air. The seven girls were behind the fringe of bushes that edged the huge rock, and he could not see them.
“What an evil-faced fellow he is!” whispered Dora Lockwood.
“And see the big gold rings in his ears,” added her twin, Dorothy.