noon
`` Yum ! yum ! '' was the only answer the others gave . By noon they found themselves on Lake Cameron . On one shore were the grim evidences of that terrible forest fire which had nearly cost the saw mill robber and the Felps ' crowd their lives . A few spots on the lake were clear , but at other points the snow lay from a few inches to a foot and a half deep . They skated to the opposite shore and stopped near the shelter of some pines and hemlocks .