noon
So Kie did not appear the next morning . But it was not until noon that the professor knew that he had been deserted . His patience was at an end so he had risen before dawn and left the tent , striking off over the hills where Mrs. Patten had indicated . He returned at noon with arrowheads and a stone axe but there was no sign of ruins . But the old man was not discouraged . These signs of Indians merely gave him the necessary urge to investigate . Before he had finished lunch the girls arrived .