noon
`` Perhaps . If you see those rascals you may have a long chase to capture them . Do not hesitate to spend the money if it appears necessary to do so . '' Long before noon our hero was on the way East on a train scheduled to stop at Snapwood . He went without his dress-suit case and carried his money in four different pockets . The train was almost empty and the riding proved decidedly lonely . In a seat he found an Omaha paper , but he was in no humor for reading .