noon
`` Oh , let 's go and take a look at the saints . I 'm in the mood for it . '' So the two set out at the heels of the German tourists . They went through the cathedral and the ducal palace , and when the bronze clock beat out the noon hour Merrihew was bursting with information such as would have filled any ordinary guide-book . He never dreamed that the world held so many different kinds of stone or half so many saints . As they started off for the hotel he declared that he would be willing to give ten dollars for a good twenty-round fight , as a counter-irritant . `` You ought to be ashamed of yourself ! ''