Morning, noon
`` That means right away , I should say . '' `` Maybe it does and maybe it does n't , '' said Tom and then _ he _ had a story to tell . It did n't take Tom long , for he was a boy of fewer words than Stannard . Morning , noon , and night the Camerons speculated about that telegram . They combed its words with a fine-toothed comb , but they could n't make anything out of them except the bald fact that Pete was missing . If you think they let it go at that , you are very much mistaken . Where the fact stopped the Cameron imaginations began , and imaginations never know where to stop .