noon
Mrs. Old John had been at the camp ever since breakfast-time , giving the place a Saturday cleaning . What she had found to occupy her for so long a time I could not imagine , but in her efforts to put in a full half-day 's work , I have no doubt she scrubbed some of the trees . We had been so fully occupied with our own affairs that we had paid very little attention to her , but she had probably heard pretty much all that had been said . At noon we paid her -LRB- giving her , at her suggestion , something extra in lieu of the midday meal , which she did not stay to take -RRB- , and told her to send her husband , with his wagon , as soon as possible , as we intended to break up our encampment . We determined that we would pack everything in John 's wagon , and let him take the load to his house , and keep it there until Monday , when I would have the tent and accompaniments expressed to their owner . We would go home and join our friends . It would not be necessary to say where we had been .