About noon
The worst of it was that he could n't remember what he was told for more 'n three minutes on a stretch . We found out these little tricks of Clifford 's after he 'd been makin ' the office his headquarters for a couple of days . First mornin ' we started him out early for the Battery , to size up the Bowling Green Buildin ' and the Aquarium . About noon he limps in with his hat all dirt and ashes up and down his back . From the description he gives we figure out that he 's been somewhere up on Washington Heights and has got into an argument with a janitor that did n't like being rung up from the basement and asked how far it was to Whitehall-st . Well , we fixes him up , writes out all the partic ` lars of his route on a card , and gives him a fresh send-off . It wa 'n' t more 'n half an hour afterwards that I was out on an errand , and as I cut through 22d-st .