noon
Gringos they were , always pushing where they were not wanted , and , however hard their fate , they would deserve it . The vein of cruelty which , despite great virtues , has made Spain a by-word among nations , showed in her descendants . But the boy , Edward Fulton , sleeping in the chapel of the great cathedral , knew nothing of it all . Nature , too long defrauded , was claiming payment of her debt , and he slept peacefully on , although the hours passed and noon came . The church had long been open . Priests came and went in the aisles , and entered some of the chapels . Worshipers , most of them women , knelt before the shrines .