Twelve o'clock sharp
`` I knowed I was goin ' to take to you , '' said Scattergood . `` You got capable hair ... . This here was to be business . '' `` Twelve o'clock sharp , then , '' she said . He looked at the clock . It lacked half an hour of noon . `` G ' - by , '' he said , and went to a distant corner , where he seated himself and stared out of the window , trying to imagine what he would do if he were Ovid Nixon , and what would make him appropriate three thousand dollars ... .