noon
Jumping sounded unscientific , and what could be worse than to say of a man that he was not scientific ? Preposterous to say the greatest things of science were achieved by unscientific methods ! To-day Dr. Hubers had been all afternoon alone in his laboratory . Some one had brought him in some luncheon at noon , but since one o'clock the door had not opened , and now it was almost five . What was going on in there ? Even Beason had the imagination to wonder . Could he have seen he would not have been much enlightened .