noon
`` Now I 'm doubly so , eh ? '' `` Oh , well , I do n't care , '' muttered Harry . `` I can wait ; I 'm not very nosey . '' By noon General Manager Ellsworth arrived on the scene of the labors of the young engineers , out at the site of the big quicksand . `` You can run the work here this afternoon , Harry , '' Tom declared . `` I shall want to put in my time with Mr. Ellsworth . '' `` Was he the answer to your telegram ? ''