noon
Satan had found that coin on the street . He did n't bark for change , nor beg for two balls , but he had got it in his woolly little head , somehow , that in that store a coin meant a ball , though never before nor afterward did he try to get a ball for a penny . Satan slept in Uncle Carey 's room , for of all people , after Dinnie , Satan loved Uncle Carey best . Every day at noon he would go to an upstairs window and watch the cars come around the corner , until a very tall , square-shouldered young man swung to the ground , and down Satan would scamper -- yelping -- to meet him at the gate . If Uncle Carey , after supper and when Dinnie was in bed , started out of the house , still in his business clothes , Satan would leap out before him , knowing that he too might be allowed to go ; but if Uncle Carey had put on black clothes that showed a big , dazzling shirt-front , and picked up his high hat , Satan would sit perfectly still and look disconsolate ; for as there were no parties or theatres for Dinnie , so there were none for him . But no matter how late it was when Uncle Carey came home , he always saw Satan 's little black nose against the window-pane and heard his bark of welcome . After intelligence , Satan 's chief trait was lovableness -- nobody ever knew him to fight , to snap at anything , or to get angry ; after lovableness , it was politeness .