noon
The master mind of Timmendiquas was somewhere back of it . The day marched on . The skies were without a cloud , and the sun became a hot blue dome . No air stirred in the deep forest , and every face became wet with perspiration , but the pace was not decreased until midway between noon and twilight , when they stopped for another half hour of complete rest . They had left Girty 's trail , but they had crossed several other trails , evidently of bands varying in numbers from twenty to fifty . But all converged on the point which their map showed to be Fort Prescott , and the dangers had thickened greatly . They were now near the Ohio , and the savages swarmed in all the woods before them .