noon
`` But I do n't find a bit of color in this stuff , '' Harry muttered . `` If we 're on the top of a vein of gold it seems to me that we ought to find a small speck of yellow here and there . '' A dozen blasts were made that morning . When the men knocked off at noon Harry Hazelton 's face bore a very serious expression . `` Tom , '' he murmured to his partner , `` I 'm afraid we have a gold brick of a gold mine . '' `` It 's an even chance , '' nodded Reade . `` And think of all the money -- out of our savings -- we 've sunk in this thing . ''