The trunks of the trees also were close enough together to hide them from anyone else who was not very near.

Here the men ate cold food from their haversacks and let their horses nibble the grass for a half hour.
They emerged refreshed and resumed their course toward the Potomac.
In the very height of the afternoon blaze they saw a horseman on the crest of a hill, watching them intently through glasses.

Sherburne instantly raised his own glasses to his eyes.
"A Yankee scout," he said.

"He sees us and knows us for what we are, but he doesn't know what we're about." "But he's trying to guess," said Harry, who was also using glasses.
"I can't see his face well enough to tell, but I know that in his place I'd be guessing." "As we don't want him hanging on to our heels and watching us, I think we'd better charge him." "Have the whole troop turn aside and chase him ?" "No; Harry, you and I and eight men will do it.

Marlowe, take the rest of the company straight along the road at an easy gait.