noon
I wonder if he took anything with him but the peroxide bottle ? '' A quick inventory showed nothing missing , and with a sigh Roger returned to the well . It was slow work , filling the bucket , clambering out to hoist it , then down again . But at noon , when the sun shone full into the well , Roger noticed a sudden darkening of the brown rock at the bottom . He seized a pick and worked rapidly . Water ! Not a gushing spring , but a steady increase of moisture that , as he dug on , became a trickle , then a slowly rising pool about his ankles .