noon Monday
`` No , he had n't got it printed yet . '' Roxana darted a suspicious glance at him . `` Did you he ' p him fix up de bill ? '' Tom cursed himself for making that stupid blunder , and tried to rectify it by saying he remembered , now , that it was at noon Monday that the man gave him the bill . Roxana said -- `` You 's lyin ' ag ` in , sho . '' Then she straightened up and raised her finger : `` Now den ! I 's gwine to ask you a question , en I wants to know how you 's gwine to git aroun ' it .