noon
In the morning they started westward for the hills . The greatest care was observed on the march . They took advantage of every depression , and when obliged to pass over level ground moved at a distance apart , as a clump or string of moving animals would be made out at a distance from which a solitary one would be unnoticed . By noon they had left the bare rock , and were travelling up a valley clothed with grass and dotted with clumps of trees . In the first of these they halted . `` We will stay here until it begins to get dusk , '' Harry said , `` and then move on as fast as we can go . If we do n't lose our way we shall be there before morning . ''