About two o'clock
`` I wish t ' hell , stranger , you-all had n't edged off south , '' chattered Alfred . `` We 'd be nearer th ' Pierre trail . '' `` I 'm puttin ' in my spare wishin ' on them Injins , '' shivered the other ; `` I sure hopes they aims to make a break pretty quick ; I 'm near froze . '' About two o'clock the sun came out and the wind died . Though its rays were feeble at that time of year , their contrast with the bleakness that had prevailed during the morning threw a perceptible warmth into the crouching men . Alfred succeeded , too , in wriggling a morsel of raw bacon from the pack , which the two men shared . But the cartridges were running very low .