noon before
He felt as if he were not wholly useless -- indeed , in such a stress of weather , quite worth while about the house . On the fourth day , however , it cleared , and he read that the storm was over . Now , however , he idled , thinking how sloppy the streets would be . It was noon before he finally abandoned his papers and got under way . Owing to the slightly warmer temperature the streets were bad . He went across Fourteenth Street on the car and got a transfer south on Broadway . One little advertisement he had , relating to a saloon down in Pearl Street .