noon
It was a large cloud , and everybody said it was our cattle being driven off . And our forty great wagons that had rolled over the Rockies and half across the continent stood in a helpless circle . Without cattle they could roll no farther . At noon Laban came in from another scout . He had seen fresh Indians arriving from the south , showing that we were being closed in . It was at this time that we saw a dozen white men ride out on the crest of a low hill to the east and look down on us . `` That settles it , '' Laban said to father .