noon
You saw the light go up and down ; that was when he puffed . But it was too far away to see any face . '' Paul , remembering the man who had gone up the side of the mountain with that rig , wondered very much whether Wallace could be right , and if the unknown was even then looking down upon them from that height . This made him turn his thoughts back to the noon camp , and try to remember whether the man in the buggy had shown that he recognized Joe at the time the boy so suddenly sprang to his feet with a cry . At any rate the unknown had whipped up his horse , and seemed in a great hurry to depart from the spot . That night the Banner Boy Scouts were just as merry as before . A banjo had been brought along , and to the plunkety-plunk of its tuneful music they sang every popular song known among Stanhope 's rising generation .