noon
Saunders , at work with his partner in Eagle Bar , was as usual generous with apparently irrelevant facts on all subjects -- but that of the strangers . It would seem as if the self-constituted Committee of Safety had done nothing . And nothing whatever seemed to happen ! Thompson of Angels , smoking a meditative pipe at noon on the trail noticed the repairing of the old adobe house , casually spoke of it on his return to his work , without apparent concern or exciting any comment . The two Billinger brothers saw Jovita Mendez at the door of her house an hour later , were themselves seen conversing with her by Jim Barker , but on returning to their claim , neither they nor Barker exhibited any insurrectionary excitement . Later on , Shuttleworth was found in possession of two bundles of freshly rolled corn-husk cigarettes , and promised to get his partner some the next day , but that gentleman anticipated him . By nightfall nearly all Buckeye had passed in procession before the little house without exhibiting any indignation or protest .