noon
Max grinned . `` Say , that 's all right . She 'll like that . I can do most of it at noon . '' Bannon nodded and went on up the ladders . At the distributing floor he looked about for a long timber , and had the laborers lay it across the well opening . The ladders and landings occupied only about a third of the space ; the rest was open , a clear drop of eighty feet .