midday
`` Let 's not worry about him , anyhow . I hope he wo n't find out where we are , too . We have n't seen or heard anything of him since we went back to Long Lake from Hamilton , so I do n't see why there is n't a good chance of his letting us alone for a while now . '' They reached Windsor , the little town at the other end of Indian Gap , late in the afternoon , having cooked their midday meal in the gap . `` I know the people in a big boarding-house here , '' said Eleanor , `` and we 'll be very comfortable . In the morning we 'll take an early train , so that we can get to Plum Beach before it 's too late to get comfortably settled . I 've sent word on ahead to have the tents ready for us , but , even so , there will be a good many things to do . ''