about a minute before noon
`` See , there 's a road that we 're getting pretty near to now . It crosses the State line about six miles east of Bremerton , if you 'll notice the map , at a little village called Mardean . That 's all on this side of the line . They may be watching the road there , so what we want to do is to get where we ca n't be seen , and then , about a minute before noon , go ahead as fast as the car will carry us . That ought to take us through all right , even if they 've got a guard on duty . Then we can circle around in a big sweep and come down to Hardport from behind . The country people ought to be able to tell us part of what we want to know , and we can confirm what they tell us by what we can see ourselves . ''