nearly noon before
They left softly , and neither the exciting recollections of the day 's adventures nor the tumult of the braves outside could hold her for a moment longer from the blessedness of sleep . She slept far into the next morning . But so did the village , for the Indians had reveled to exhaustion . It was nearly noon before she attired herself in a fringed and beaded dress of buckskin , with leggings and exquisite little moccasins and laughingly permitted one of the women attendants to place a painted war feather in her hair . Thus clad and with her wide braids falling , she sat regally to receive the morning call of Red Snake . She was beginning to take a tremulous pleasure in the game of being an immortal . Pauline 's questing spirit was too happy in adventure not to find a thrill in being thus translated from hungering captive to reigning queen , from queen to angel .