noon
Something has happened here . The stage driver who silenced the rowdies last night is stricken this morning at the tavern . He is dead . By noon he is buried in the village cemetery where the ashes of my father lie . Mrs. Spurgeon thinks that Reverdy should leave the tavern and come here with the rest of us . I am to take the word to him when I go to see Mr. Brooks . She has seen the ravages of cholera before .