She heard voices of other men.
They paid not too much attention to her at first.

Big Aleck, their leader, went on with hurried orders.
"We got to get out of here in not more'n an hour or so," said he.

"The Johns'll come.

I fixed a couple dozen stacks of hay for them." "See anybody down below, Aleck ?" asked a voice which Mary Warren recognized as different from the others she had heard.

And then some low question was asked, to which Big Aleck replied.
"Well, I'll take her along with me, when I go out, far as that's concerned," said he.