midnight
`` Of course you know best . I 'm so anxious over this business that I 'm acting like a fool . '' After that companionship was a little easier , but under the circumstances the one topic most on the mind of each was carefully avoided . At midnight they stopped at the crossing of a stream to water and feed , and Abe showed his companion how to make a nosebag out of the sack in which his grain was carried . Daybreak found them in the foothills . At the ranch where Abe had been accommodated the morning before they again halted for breakfast . With another feed for the horses tied behind their saddles , they began the long climb of the western slope of the mountains and about four o'clock in the afternoon had crossed over the summit and reached the spring at the head of Devil 's Canyon -- the last water they would find until they reached Wolf Wells in the desert .