about noon
`` By eleven o'clock everybody in town knew what was coming off . There was no work or business , except in the saloons . Zimmer and I were together , and the rest of our crowd in pairs at different places . I reckon it was about noon when Blome got tired parading up and down . He went in the Hope So , and the crowd followed . Zimmer stayed outside so to give Steele a hunch in case he came along . I went in to see the show .