"Must be some mistake," he said. "There is no one here."
"No one there!" cried Betty in strange tones. "Why——"
She looked over his shoulder. There in the bed was the imprint of a human form, but the girl herself had vanished!
CHAPTER IV
THE QUEER PEDDLER
For a moment after this surprising discovery had been made no one spoke. Dr. Brown looked oddly from one girl to the other, and at Mrs. Meckelburn.
"There is evidently some mystery here," he said. "I supposed there was really some one here who needed my services?" and he glanced questioningly at Mollie, who had summoned him.
"Oh, indeed there was," she said, quickly. "A girl fell out of a tree——"
"Out of a tree!" exclaimed the doctor, and for a moment it seemed as though he believed a joke had been attempted on him.