noon
`` They might know something , '' he said . `` It 's worth trying , '' decided Tom . `` I 'll wait until to-morrow about the balloon . We can make the village by noon , I guess . Perhaps we can get a clew there . '' But it was nearly night when the ox carts drew into the Mexican settlement , for there was an accident in the afternoon , one of the vehicles breaking down . There were fires blazing in many places in the village , which was one of the most primitive sort , when our friends entered .