"Be careful," Katherine warned. "Don't let him see that we know him. Just pass him as you would a perfect stranger."
But they did not pass the automobile as expected. Although slowing up, the machine did not stop, and for the first time the girls realised the probable nature of the man's visit to Stony Point.
"O Hazel!" Katherine whispered; "he's turning in at the Graham place."
"I bet he's come here to warn them against us," Hazel returned.
"It must be something of the kind," Katherine agreed, and then the near approach to the automobile rendered unwise any further conversation on the subject.
The girls were within 100 feet of the machine as it turned in on the Graham drive and found that they had all they could do to preserve a calm and unperturbed demeanor as they met the keen searching gaze of the squint eyes of Pierce Langford, the lawyer from Fairberry.
CHAPTER XIII.
A NONSENSE PLOT.
Katherine and Hazel walked past the drive, into which Attorney Langford's automobile had turned, apparently without any concern or interest in the occupant of the machine. But after they had advanced forty or fifty yards beyond the drive, Hazel's curiosity got the best of her and she turned her head and looked back. The impulse to do this was so strong, she said afterward, that it seemed impossible for her to control the action. Her glance met the gaze of the squint eyes of the man in the auto.
"My! that was a foolish thing for me to do," she said as she quickly faced ahead again. "I suppose that look has done more damage than anything else since we started from Fairberry. And to think that I above all others should have been the one to do it. I'm ashamed of myself."