noon
What should he do ? He had prayed for Ellis Holbrook and Bob Turner ever since he began to pray for himself , but he felt as though he could not possibly pray for either of them to-night . Both had tried to injure him ; both had succeeded . He wished them no harm : he did n't want to choke or drown them , as he had felt like doing at noon , but clearly he did n't want to pray for them . He had arisen from his knees , and was sitting on the edge of the box which was his table and chair , with a very troubled face . The more he thought about it , the more he felt that he could not pray for those boys just then . At last he thought he had found a way out of the difficulty .