ten o'clock
`` Close your tents before you leave , girls , '' said Nyoda , appearing in the doorway , `` it may rain while we are away . Very neatly done , '' she said , indicating Gladys 's poncho with its smooth ties , `` you are fast learning to be a camper . '' Gladys said nothing about Chapa 's having done it up for her , and of course Chapa would not say so . Promptly at ten o'clock the pathfinders marched away , looking quite explorerfied with their hatchets hanging from their belts and their Wohelo knives chained to their bloomer pockets . At twenty-minute intervals the other pairs started , Nyoda going the rounds before she left to see who had left her things in the neatest order , and whose poncho looked the best . A banner would go to the pair who kept up the best style throughout the hike . She and Medmangi ate their lunch before starting , as they left so near noon .