Magua held out the wallet to the proffer of the other. He even suffered their hands to meet, without betraying
the least emotion, or varying his riveted attitude of attention. But when he felt the fingers of Heyward
moving gently along his own naked arm, he struck up the limb of the young man, and, uttering a piercing
cry, he darted beneath it, and plunged, at a single bound, into the opposite thicket. At the next instant
the form of Chingachgook appeared from the bushes, looking like a specter in its paint, and glided across
the path in swift pursuit. Next followed the shout of Uncas, when the woods were lighted by a sudden
flash, that was accompanied by the sharp report of the hunter's rifle.