Noon
Spurling found an old ` longshore acquaintance from a visiting boat and went off aboard to inspect his new type of engine . Filippo struck up an eternal friendship with a fellow-countryman from the granite quarries on Hurricane . Percy , left to his own resources , invested in a new brand of cigarettes and promenaded back and forth along the main street , smoking and eying the passers-by superciliously . Noon found the restaurants packed with hungry excursionists ; but the crowds were good-natured and everybody was able to get plenty to eat . At two o'clock there was a grand rush to the baseball-grounds . Spurling , Lane , and Stevens sat together in the front of the stand ; Percy perched at the extreme right of the topmost row ; while Filippo lay on the grass back of third base with his new-found , swarthy compatriot . Evidently there was some hitch about beginning the game .