noon
As he walked toward the factory the young man was thinking of all this . Of a surety the tall girl , had come with the strangers , yet he had not noticed her until that moment outside the stockade wall , when he had caught the striking picture in the morning sun . Name ? Most certainly it would be in that list which the leader of the party had promised him by noon . When he entered the big room the man was there before him , a picturesque figure of a man , big and graceful and dark of brow , with long black curls beneath his crimson cap . As McElroy went forward he straightened up from his lounging position against the railing and held out the paper he had promised . `` For enrollment , M'sieu , '' he said simply .