about eight in the morning
Then the telephone conversation was resumed after Mr. Singleton had been requested to speak a little louder -- there seemed some flaw in the connection . In the end Singleton appeared much comforted to get the subject off his own shoulders by discussing it with another . But he had been convinced that the right thing to do was to motor over to the Junction and take the telegrams with him for consultation . He would start about eight in the morning , and would reach the railroad by noon . Yes , by taking the light car which he drove himself it would be an easy matter . Billie heard part of this discourse in an absent-minded way , for she was not at all interested as to what some strange lawyer in Nogales might think of the curious telegrams . She would have dropped some of that indifference if she had been able to hear the lurid language of Conrad after the receiver was hung up .