Was the driver of the cart full of branches really asleep or was he only pretending? why did big farmer Thune shiver in his bed at night? And what about that groaning wail that howled across the field when the moon rose above the forrest? How could that black figure vanish from the mill without leaving tracks on the snow? why did Alma lock herself in the tower chamber to stare at the castle gate and wait? Who had hung that dead raven on the bent nail above Thune's door? And why? The abandoned mill held some dark, Shadowy secret, but what was it? These questions and many more churned through Peter's mind as he started in the fire.
