one o'clock
Here 's the wardrobe key , too . '' There was some further talk when Scott came back with the salt , chiefly about horses and directions as to telephoning . Whispering Smith took up a notch again in his belt , pulled down his hat , and bent over the neck of his horse to lay his hand a moment in McCloud 's . It was one o'clock . Across the foothills the moon was rising , and Whispering Smith straightening up in the saddle wheeled his horse and trotted swiftly up the street into the silent north . Oroville once marked farthest north for the Peace River gold camps , but with mining long ago abandoned it now marks farthest south for a rustler 's camp , being a favorite resort for the people of the Williams Cache country . Oroville boasts that it has never surrendered and that it has never been cleaned out .