noon
Besides , it would not do to let that cad think he had frightened him . He would pretend he was not going , at least during his hours of grace . So he picked up his book and went on reading . At noon he sauntered back to his boarding house as usual for his dinner , having professed an unusually busy morning to those who came in to the office on business and made appointments with them for the next day . This had brought him much satisfaction as the morning wore away and he was left free to his book , and so before dinner he had come to within a very few pages of the end . After a leisurely dinner he sauntered back to the office again , rejoicing in the fact that circumstances had so arranged themselves that he had passed David Spafford in front of the newspaper office and given him a most elaborate and friendly bow in the presence of four or five bystanders . David 's look in return had meant volumes , and decided Harry Temple to do as he had been ordered , not , of course , because he had been ordered to do so , but because it would be an easier thing to do .