Her face appeared serious, but those who looked at her closely detected a sparkle of the black eyes, for all the world as if she meditated some prank upon her confiding friends.

Ben was suspicious.

She added-- "Go wid me--me show you." Then he was sure she was up to something.
He rose from where he was sitting, and, rifle in hand, walked a little way in the wood.

She looked round once or twice, and continued advancing a few minutes after they were out of sight of Alice and her mother.
She held the hand of the youth, who acted as if he was a bad boy being led to punishment.

He started to ask a question, but she checked him by raising her forefinger and a "S--h!" and he did not presume again.
Finally she stopped among a number of trees where several trunks were two or three feet in diameter.