noon
I was thoroughly tired , but I slept restlessly , dreaming of two detectives with Pittsburg warrants being held up by Hotchkiss at the point of a splint , while Alison fastened their hands with a chain that was broken and much too short . I was roused about dawn by a light rap at the door , and , opening it , I found Forbes , in a pair of trousers and a pajama coat . He was as pleasant as most fleshy people are when they have to get up at night , and he said the telephone had been ringing for an hour , and he did n't know why somebody else in the blankety-blank house could n't have heard it . He would n't get to sleep until noon . As he was palpably asleep on his feet , I left him grumbling and went to the telephone . It proved to be Richey , who had found me by the simple expedient of tracing Alison , and he was jubilant . `` You 'll have to come back , '' he said .