noon
I watched her awhile this morning . She ai n't loaded right , or she 's loaded _ wrong,-purpose _ . That occurs sometimes with a gang of striking stevedores . '' The noon whistle blew and the talk ended with the setting of everybody 's watch , except the Bum Actor 's , whose timepiece decorated a shop-window in the Bowery . ***** That night one of those uncomfortable rumors , started doubtless by Carhart 's talk , shivered through the ship , its vibrations even reaching the widow lying awake in her cabin . This said that some hundreds of barrels of turpentine had broken loose and were smashing everything below . If any one of them rolled into the furnaces an explosion would follow which would send them all to eternity .