noon
I am beginning to get chilled in spite of the sunshine . '' Saying that he would be back later , Horace Kelsey left the bridge and took the path leading to the cottage . Ralph saw him speak to his mother , and a moment later both passed into the cottage . It was now drawing toward noon , and the people began to cross the bridge in both directions , on their way to dinner . Each one either paid a cent or passed over a ticket , sixty-five of which could be had for fifty cents . At a quarter to one the same passengers began to go back to their work , and this was kept up for half an hour , at the end of which the young bridge tender had collected twenty-one cents and forty-three tickets . Several horns now began to blow from both Big Silver and Silver Lakes , showing that the boats wished to pass through the draw .