noon
`` Tell me the whole story of the company . '' Dave told it , and in the telling he found it necessary to sketch the Crawford-Steelman feud . He brought himself into the narrative as little as possible , but the grizzled millionaire drew enough from him to set Graham 's eye to sparkling . `` Come back to-morrow at noon , '' decided the great man . `` I 'll let you know my decision then . '' The young man knew he was dismissed , but he left the office elated . Graham had been favorably impressed .