about noon
`` The way the dogs barked all night -- did n't they keep you awake ? '' `` Never slept better in my life , '' drawled Baumberger , his voice sliding upward from the first word to the last . His blood-shot eyes , however , rather gave the lie to his statement . `` I 'm going to make one more try , ` long about noon , for that big one -- girls did n't get him , I guess , for all their threats , or I 'd heard about it . And I reckon I 'll take the evening train home . Shoulda gone yesterday , by rights . I 'd like to get a basket uh fish to take up with me .