about noon
`` Just the thing ! '' cried Dick , quickly . `` Where is that fellow ? '' `` He ought to be here now -- he generally comes in about noon for sandwiches and coffee . '' `` I wish he would come now , '' murmured Sam . After that they did not hurry their lunch , hoping the owner of the motor-boat would appear . He came in ten minutes later -- a bright , cheery individual , not much older than Dick .