Noon
Right then , according to all appearances , the Comas business up-country was doing very well in the hands of the understrapper bosses . Therefore , Director Craig smiled over the pages of his notebook . The brown smudges in single file went on and on . Noon at the foot of the portage at Oxbow ! Lida sniffed the wood smoke of the cook fire and ate her lunch and drank her tea . Up the narrow trail of the gorge she followed at the rear of her men ; the canoes , upturned on their shoulders , glistened in the sparkling sunshine . She was bringing real aid in a time of stress , as one of the Flaggs should !