about noon
`` Nothin ' ; I kem back to get some things , '' she said shortly , moving away . `` And ye saw HIM ? '' `` Ye-e-s , '' drawled Minty , carelessly , still retreating . `` Bixby was along here about noon . He says the stranger was suthin ' high and mighty in his own country , and them ` Frisco millionaires are quite sweet on him . Where are ye goin ' ? '' `` In the house . ''