midday
He would not even go to look at the completion of the work or to test the wires . `` You can see to it , '' he said ; `` I have done all I can . Now things must take their chance . '' After our midday meal he lay down and slept quite soundly for several hours . About four o'clock those who were labouring at the piling up of débris over the mouth of the tunnel completed their task , and , in charge of Quick , were marched out of the underground city . Then Higgs and I took lamps and went along the length of the wires , which lay in a little trench covered over with dust , removing the dust and inspecting them at intervals . Discovering nothing amiss , we returned to the old temple , and at its doorway met the mountaineer , Japhet , who throughout all these proceedings had been our prop and stay .