noon
Why Captain Sedley should lay it to him , he could not tell , unless it was on account of what he had said to Fred Harper about buying the Thunderbolt . He was uneasy , and spent the forenoon in wandering about the woods back of his father 's house . He felt as though something was going to happen , though he could not tell precisely what . He had eaten no breakfast , and at noon he was driven home by hunger . But he had scarcely seated himself at the dinner-table before a knock was heard at the door . `` Go to the door , Tim , '' said his father . `` I do n't want to go , '' answered Tim , with a whine .