noon
Where is she ? '' That night Kent did not sleep . The next day there lay ahead of him a low and broken range , the first of the deeper mountains . He climbed this steadily , and at noon had reached the crest . And he knew that at last he was looking down into the Valley of Silent Men . It was not a wide valley , like the other . On the far side of it , three or four miles away , rose the huge mountain whose face was looking down upon the green meadows at its foot .