noon
`` No ! What 's happened ? '' `` We do n't know . The old lady was so long coming out of her tent that toward noon I investigated , to find that she was no longer with us . I went up to Prebles ' and Charley reported that two of the madam 's burros were missing this morning as well as the pack ropes . We think that she hit out in the night and is trailing the old boy up in the ranges . He started off early , serene in the thought that she was down here .