noon
`` It 's about eleven o'clock now , '' said the secret service man . `` We 'll have luncheon at the roadhouse and in the meantime we can stroll around and hunt up this wireless plant . We 'd attract too much attention if we drove directly into the field . '' They stopped at the road-house , ordered luncheon , and said they would stroll about until noon . Then they wandered , apparently aimlessly , about the place and into the fields . The country was nearly level , with slight depressions here and little hillocks there , and bits of woodland all about . The road-house was the only structure in sight , and when they had passed beyond a slight elevation , even this was hidden .