noon
Every one was confidently expecting Perkins to make the effort of his life and swamp the chapel in sorrow . He was in the secret and he afterward said that he would rather try to write a Shakespearean tragedy offhand than to write another funeral oration about a man who he knew was at that moment sitting in a pair of pajamas in an upper room half a mile away and yelling for pie . As a matter of fact , there were so many in the secret that we were dead afraid that it would explode . We had to put the baseball team on so that they would be prepared to go over to Hambletonian at noon . The game had been called off , of course , and Hambletonian had been telegraphed . But I was secretary of the Athletic Club and had done the telegraphing . So I addressed the telegram to my aunt in New Jersey .