noon
`` I 'll go on down to the doctor -- I expect I should have first thing , before I started to stiffen up . You go ahead to Lost Island , and see what can be done toward picking up the pieces and taking the _ Skyrocket _ over to the island . If there are enough unbroken pieces we may have a chance . I 'll be along by noon . '' He hobbled down the street and Jerry , after telling his mother what had happened , and getting reluctant consent to his extended absence , gathered together a few necessaries and made all speed for the interurban . There was no temptation to go to sleep this time , for his thoughts were racing madly ahead to the exciting plan to beat the schemers who had wrecked the _ Skyrocket _ . At the same time he was conscious of a disappointed feeling in his heart ; why could it not have been the United States that had bought the invention ?