noon
`` Ajar she is , '' says I , proppin ' it open with a ` phone directory . '' 'T is well , '' says the Doc . `` Now leave us . '' I was goin ' to , anyway ; for at exactly noon I had a date somewhere else . There was a window openin ' off the bondroom that was screened by a pile of cases , and out from that was an iron fire escape runnin ' along the whole court side on our floor . I 'd picked that window out as bein ' a good place to scout from . And I could n't have been better placed ; for I saw just who I was expectin ' the minute he heaves in sight .