Noon
It was no use to try to understand such things as he and Yellow Pine were examining . They belonged to the great mystery of pale-face life , and a Nez Percé girl could not be expected to guess very nearly at their uses . She could comb her hair more carefully , however , and discover a new way of doing it up , and she did not know how closely she was imitating many pale-face young ladies of about her age , not to speak of older ones . Noon came and went , and there were no signs of returning hunters or of game of any sort , but there was no danger of famine in that camp for days and days to come . Judge Parks would hardly have unpacked mining-tools and `` fixings , '' as Pine called them , so composedly if he could have known what was going forward farther down the valley and on the other side of the little river . On , on rode Two Arrows and his companion , and it almost seemed as if both were growing older . It was no sort of boy-play to ride like that , with such tremendous consequences depending upon them .