noon
Yet they hailed me as leader , and placing me on a robe of deerskins carried me into camp . They smoked the pipe of fealty with me , and when I slept that night I knew that my dream castles of the last two years were at last shaping into something I could touch and handle . Their glitter was giving way to masonry . The morning brought the Malhominis , the noon the Chippewas . I hoped for the French and the Pottawatamies by night . But the night did not bring them , nor the next morning , nor the next day , nor yet the day following . And in the waiting days I lived in four camps of savages , and it was my duty to cover them with the robe of peace .