noon
Such was his faith , potent as the mighty flood hidden in the gray-ghost gloom of approaching dawn . Yet he did not expect to win easily . As he worked , his mind swept up and down the Three Rivers from the Landing to Fort Simpson , and mentally he pictured the situations that might arise , and how he would triumph over them . He figured that the men at Barracks would not enter Kedsty 's bungalow until noon at the earliest . The Police gasoline launch would probably set out on a river search soon after . By mid-afternoon the scow would have a fifty-mile start . Before darkness came again they would be through the Death Chute , where Follette and Ladouceur swam their mad race for the love of a girl .