noon
`` That , '' said our guest earnestly , `` would be theft atop of assault and very serious . '' `` Oh , let 's hang him an ' be done , '' Hinchcliffe grunted . `` It 's evidently what he 's sufferin ' for . '' Somehow murder did not appeal to us that warm noon . We sat down to smoke in the heather , and presently out of the valley below came the thick beat of a petrol-motor ascending . I paid little attention to it till I heard the roar of a horn that has no duplicate in all the Home Counties . `` That 's the man I was going to lunch with ! ''