noon
`` I meant that I would not for the world have him see Nat . He was coarse and brutal enough to be insulting to a helpless cripple , and I knew it . But Nat did not dream of my reason for insisting so strongly on going myself , and he finally yielded . `` I took the pictures to the overseer 's office at noon . I knew that ` Agent Wilkins , ' as he was called to distinguish him from his brother , was always there at that time . He looked up at me , as I drew near the desk , with an expression which almost paralyzed me with disgust . But for Nat 's sake I kept on .