noon
The veteran stared at Carl reprovingly , yet with a little sadness , too , at the thought of how bitterly he had been deceived in this young comrade , and his uncombed head slowly vanished amid the lumber . Carl grinned and started up-town . He walked into four restaurants . At noon , in white jacket , he was bustling about as waiter in the dining-room of the Waskahominie Hotel , which had `` white service '' as a feature . Within two days he was boon companion of a guest of the Waskahominie -- Parker Heye , an actor famous from Cape Charles to Shockeysville , now playing heavies at Roanoke in the Great Riley Tent Show , Presenting a Popular Repertoire of Famous Melodramas under Canvas , Rain or Shine , Admittance Twenty-five Cents , Section Reserved for Colored People , the Best Show under Canvas , This Week Only . When Parker Heye returned from the theater Carl sat with him in a room which had calico-like wall-paper , a sunken bed with a comforter out of which oozed a bit of its soiled cotton entrails , a cracked water-pitcher on a staggering wash-stand , and a beautiful new cuspidor of white china hand-painted with pink moss-roses tied with narrow blue ribbon . Carl listened credulously to Heye 's confidences as to how jealous was Riley , the actor-manager , of Heye 's art , how Heye had `` knocked them all down '' in a stock company at Newport News , and what E. H. Sothern had said to him when they met in Richmond as guests of the Seven Pines Club .