noon
A man would sometimes rather die than keep alive , anyway , if it came only to that . But I know I made up my mind I was going to get out so I could smash up that Anderson , and I reckon Denton had the same idea . Schwartz did n't say anything , but he pumped on ahead of us , his back bent over , and his clothes sagging and bulging with the gold he carried . We used to travel all night , because it was cool , and rest an hour or two at noon . That is all the rest we did get . I do n't know how fast we went ; I 'd got beyond that . We must have crawled along mighty slow , though , after our first strength gave out .