noon
`` Admit that they took your bribes ? You are witless , Spawn ! Let them but admit it to me and of a surety I will fling them into imprisonment ! Now listen with care , for the after noon is going ... '' Their voices lowered , then faded , and Jetta was left alone and helpless . Spawn went back to the mine to meet me . We returned and had supper , Jetta could dimly hear us . * * * * * There was silence about the house during the mid-evening .