Make no noise.

Bring the pistols from your holsters." As the man turned to obey him, Talbot glanced about in perplexity, and his eyes fell upon a small sloop rapidly disappearing down the river, under full sail in the fresh breeze which had sprung up.

She was too far away now to make out any details in the moonlight, but the sight was somewhat unusual and alarming, he scarcely knew why.
"I got dem tied safe, Mars' Hil'ry," called out the voice of the boy from the road.
"All right, Dick! We will leave this one here, and try to find out what's wrong; you follow me, and keep the pistols ready." "Yes, Mars', I got dem." The man was brave enough in the presence of open danger; it was only the spiritual he feared.
They had scarcely gone ten paces farther toward the path, when, at the foot of it, they stumbled over another body.
"Here is another one.

What does it mean?
See who it is, Dick." The groom, mastering his instinctive aversion, bent down obediently, and lifting the face peered into it.

It was lighter here, and he recognized it at once.
"Hit's Mars' Blodgett, de kunnel's old sojuh man.