noon
Without another word Aldous opened the cabin door and was gone , leaving Stevens quite as much amazed as the little Englishman whom everybody called Curly , because he had no hair . Aldous went at once to the station , and for the first time inquired into the condition that was holding back the Tête Jaune train . He found that a slide had given way , burying a section of track under gravel and rock . A hundred men were at work clearing it away , and it was probable they would finish by noon . A gang boss , who had come back with telegraphic reports , said that half a dozen men had carried Quade 's hand-car over the obstruction about midnight . It was seven o'clock when Aldous left for the Miette bottom . He believed that Joanne would be up .