noon
`` Now , here 's a sleigh . I fancy it was wance Dumont 's , or some other gint 's , but I 'm thinkin ' it 's ours now . It 's bruk the heart av me thet I could n't bring them dogs along . If we have luck we 'll be back at the ranche before noon to-morrer . Jest ketch hould av this rifle , and I 'll drive . '' In the clear moonlight Pasmore could see a team standing on an old trail not fifteen yards away . `` But just let me say good-bye first to Pepin , '' said Pasmore .