about noon
You could not chide such a boy as this ; and in time 's due course he had walked jauntily out into the world with legs of equal length after all and in his stride the slightest halt possible . And Doctor Barker had missed the child 's conversation . To-day his mustache was a perfected thing , and he in the late end of his twenties . `` He 'll wake up about noon to-morrow in a dive , without a cent , '' said Barker . `` Then he 'll come back on a freight and begin over again . '' At the Denver station Lin McLean passed through the shoutings and omnibuses , and came to the beginning of Seventeenth Street , where is the first saloon . A customer was ordering Hot Scotch ; and because he liked the smell and had not thought of the mixture for a number of years , Lin took Hot Scotch .