one o'clock
The wolves had not broken their traveling rank , and for this reason he guessed that Bram had paused only long enough to put on his snowshoes . After this Philip could measure quite accurately the speed of the outlaw and his pack . Bram 's snow-shoe strides were from twelve to sixteen inches longer than his own , and there was little doubt that Bram was traveling six miles to his four . It was one o'clock when Philip stopped to eat his dinner . He figured that he was fifteen miles from the timber-line . As he ate there pressed upon him more and more persistently the feeling that he had entered upon an adventure which was leading toward inevitable disaster for him . For the first time the significance of Bram 's supply of meat , secured by the outlaw at the last moment before starting out into the Barren , appeared to him with a clearness that filled him with uneasiness .