noon
I had no idea he was so mean a man . Lon McFane was a bit grumpy , what of losing his tobacco pouch , or else he might have told me , before we got to it , something about the cabin at Surprise Lake . All day , turn and turn about , we had spelled each other at going to the fore and breaking trail for the dogs . It was heavy snowshoe work , and did not tend to make a man voluble , yet Lon McFane might have found breath enough at noon , when we stopped to boil coffee , with which to tell me . But he did n't . Surprise Lake ? -- it was Surprise Cabin to me .