noon
Barndale was displaying his mangled darling to Papa Leland in the salle à manger , when Demetri Agryopoulo came in with a friend and went out again after a stay of two or three minutes . Barndale did not notice him , but Jimmy met him point-blank at the door , and made way for him to pass . The two friends crossed over to Stamboul and went to the bazaar with their dragoman , and there chaffered with a skilled old Turkish artificer who asked just ten times what he meant to take for the job , and finally took it at only twice his bottom price . A silver band was all it needed to restore it , and it was promised that the work should be done and the pipe ready to be called for at noon on the morrow . It chanced that as the friends left the bazaar they ran full against their Greek enemy , who raised his hat with well-dissembled rage , and stalked on . The Greek by ill hap passed the stall of the man to whom the precious pipe had been entrusted . Barn-dale had smoked this remarkable pipe that morning in the Greek 's view in the reading-room , and Demetri knew it again at a glance .