The noon sun
The diminishing burial squad was kept steadily at work , and a surplus half-dozen graves were always burned down and waiting . `` You could n't have selected a worse place for a camp , '' Smoke told Laura Sibley . `` Look at it -- at the bottom of a narrow gorge , running east and west . The noon sun does n't rise above the top of the wall . You ca n't have had sunlight for several months . '' `` But how was I to know ? '' He shrugged his shoulders .