noon
An unexpected influence intervened . All afternoon the cries and galloping went on , and next morning -LRB- worse sign -RRB- there seemed to be no Indians in the world . The horizon was empty , the air was silent , the smoking tepees were vanished from the cottonwoods , and where those in the plain had been lay the lodge-poles , and the fires were circles of white , cold ashes . By noon an interpreter came from Red Cloud . Red Cloud would like to have Toussaint . If the white man was not willing , it should be war . Captain Brent told the story of Loomis and Kelley .