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If you will excuse me for a time , however , I will r-return after a breakfast . I left my house very early this morning . '' Weaver noticed the sudden pinched look of faintness that turned von Rittenheim 's ruddy face ashy . `` He 's missed more than one meal , '' he thought , but said aloud only , `` Any time before two o'clock . '' It was not much that the commissioner learned from von Rittenheim after all , for food brought back self-reliance and courage , and he felt that the whole story of his trouble would be an appeal for sympathy that he could not make . However , he told enough to cause Weaver to say under his breath a few condemnatory things about the deputy-marshal , and then he asked , -- `` What are you going to do ? '' `` I hope to find some occupation in Asheville until the time of my tr-rial . ''