noon
`` Grace is quite right , '' agreed Anne . `` I am worrying about to - morrow myself . '' `` I have been thinking it over , '' spoke up Hi Lang . `` I believe I will go out early in the morning and ride until noon . I can cover a lot of ground in that time , and if I do not find water , the chances are against our getting any in the direction we are going . In that event we will head for the mountains and fight our way through . I never knew so many water holes to fail , but the storm is largely responsible for that condition . ''