about noon
` Be patient , ' says Andy , kindly . ` Maybe we will see a rift in the smoke ere long . ' `` All the next morning Andy was out . I did n't see him until about noon . He came to the hotel and called me into his room across the hall . He pulled a roundish bundle about as big as a goose egg out of his pocket and unwrapped it . It was an ivory carving just as he had described the millionaire 's to me . ''