noon
Yet , however Dalyrimple justified himself intellectually , he had many bad moments in the weeks immediately following his decision . The tremendous pressure of sentiment and inherited ambition kept raising riot with his attitude . He felt morally lonely . The noon after his first venture he ate in a little lunch-room with Charley Moore and , watching him unspread the paper , waited for a remark about the hold-up of the day before . But either the hold-up was not mentioned or Charley was n't interested . He turned listlessly to the sporting sheet , read Doctor Crane 's crop of seasoned bromides , took in an editorial on ambition with his mouth slightly ajar , and then skipped to Mutt and Jeff . Poor Charley -- with his faint aura of evil and his mind that refused to focus , playing a lifeless solitaire with cast-off mischief .