noon
He had found him in an abject state , white and trembling , his coward 's fancy anticipating a hundred times a minute the death he was anon to die . Vallancey had hailed him cheerily . `` The day is yours , Dick , '' he had cried , when Richard entered the library where he awaited him . `` Wild Wilding has ridden to Taunton this morning and is to be back by noon . Odsbud , Dick ! -- twenty miles and more in the saddle before coming on the ground . Heard you ever of the like madness ?