noon
`` But we have no food with which to invite attack , '' I objected . Dakon pointed to the horse I rode , and I understood . Early in the day Dakon 's horse had cast a shoe . The delicate hoof had split , and by noon the animal was limping . Dakon refused to ride it farther , and refused to desert it . So , on his solicitation , we went on . He would lead the horse and join us at my place .