noon
It would have been a wonderful day to go on , but none of us thought of it . As Tish said , here was a chance to assist the law and a fellow being in peril of his life . Our place was there . Even had we doubted Mr. Muldoon 's story , we had proof of it before noon . A man with a gun came out on a ledge of rock across the valley and stood , with his hands to his eyes , peering across at our cave . Tish was hanging some of our clothing out to dry , and although she saw the outlaw as well as we did she did not flinch . After a time the man seemed satisfied and disappeared .