noon
When Grant Adams had told and retold his story to the reporters and had eaten what Dr. Nesbit would let him eat , it was late in the afternoon . He lay down to sleep with the sun still shining through the shutters in his low-ceiled , west bed room . Through the night his father sat or slept fitfully beside him and when the morning sun was high , and still the young man slept on , the father guarded him , and would let no one enter the house . At noon Grant rose and dressed . He saw the Dexters coming down the road and he went to the door to welcome them . It seemed at first that the stupor of sleep was not entirely out of his brain . He was silent and had to be primed for details of his adventure .