noon
Good Indian had talked long with Miss Georgie , and had agreed with her that , for the present at least , there must be no violence . He had promised her flatly that he would do all in his power to keep the peace , and he had gone again to the Indian camp to see if Peppajee or some of his fellows could give him any information about Saunders . Saunders had disappeared unaccountably , after a surreptitious conference with Baumberger the day before , and it was that which Miss Georgie had to tell him . Saunders was in the habit of sleeping late , so that she did not know until noon that he was gone . Pete was worried , and garrulously feared the worst . The worst , according to Pete Hamilton , was sudden death of a hemorrhage . Miss Georgie asserted unfeelingly that Saunders was more in danger of dying from sheer laziness than of consumption , and she even went so far as to hint cynically , that even his laziness was largely hypocritical .