noon
`` By the limping piper ! I 'm glad I ai n't her financier . I 'm most crazy , as it is ! '' The sheep herder woke the sleepers at noon . After a bath at the spring , and dinner , the trio felt as if reborn . They left the herder with minute directions as to what he was to do in case he heard of Rhoda . Then they rode out of the cañon into the burning desert .