The Warden is a tall woman with freckles and red hair. She wears black turquoise-studded boots (similar to the ones worn by Kissin’ Kate Barlow years earlier). She is a descendant of Trout Walker and his wife Linda Miller. The Warden is a mysterious woman. She lives alone in a small cabin. She only seems to be interested in whether the boys have found something that has been buried in the dried-up lakebed. The buried treasure is the total focus of her life. The Warden will do anything to find it.
After Zero runs away, she has all of his files destroyed. She doesn’t care about Zero. Her only concern is finding the buried treasure. She doesn’t want her search halted for any reason. The Warden is a villainous and menacing person. She enforces the rules by threatening to scratch offenders with her nails, which are polished with rattlesnake venom. The Warden never gets the buried treasure. She is forced to close Camp Green Lake and sell her land, which eventually becomes a Girl Scout Camp.
