noon
He had seen his enemy . Therefore Jean proceeded with a slow caution , never getting within revolver range of ambush , using all his woodcraft to trail this man and yet save himself . Queen traveled slowly , either because he was wounded or else because he tried to ambush his pursuer , and Jean accommodated his pace to that of Queen . From noon of that day they were never far apart , never out of hearing of a rifle shot . The contrast of the beauty and peace and loneliness of the surroundings to the nature of Queen 's flight often obtruded its strange truth into the somber turbulence of Jean 's mind , into that fixed columnar idea around which fleeting thoughts hovered and gathered like shadows . Early frost had touched the heights with its magic wand . And the forest seemed a temple in which man might worship nature and life rather than steal through the dells and under the arched aisles like a beast of prey .