noon
My anxiety is for the little orphan girl . She is only a child . I could n't leave her behind us , and I must not let a hair of her head be harmed . '' `` She 's a right womanly little thing , '' Rex Krane said , carelessly ; but I wondered if in the dark his eyes might not have had the same look they had had at noon when he turned to Mat sitting beside my uncle . Maybe back at Boston he had a little sister of his own like her . Anyhow , I decided then that men 's words and faces do not always agree . Again the roar of voices broke out , and we scrambled from the wagon and quickly gathered our company together .