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`` Even so , Mrs. Fieldstone , do n't you try to start nothing with this woman , as you never know what you 're stacking up against in cafés , '' Ralph warned her . `` Young Hartigan , the featherweight champion of the world , used to be a -- now -- coat boy in Sam 's ; and they got several waiters working there who has also graduated from the preliminary class . '' `` I would n't open my head at all , '' Mrs. Fieldstone promised ; and with this assurance they entered the most southerly of the three doors to Sam 's . One of the penalties of being one of the few restaurants in New York permitted to do business between one A.M. and six A.M. was that Sam 's Café and Restaurant did a light business between six P.M. and one A.M. ; and consequently at eleven-thirty P.M. J. Montgomery Fieldstone and Miss Goldie Raymond were the only occupants of the south dining-room . It is true that there were other customers seated in the middle and north dining-rooms -- conspicuously Mr. Sidney Rossmore and Miss Vivian Haig ; and it was this young lady who , though hidden from J. Montgomery Fieldstone 's view , formed one of the subsidiary heads of his discourse with Miss Raymond . `` Well , I wish you could ` a ' seen her , kid ! '' he said to Miss Raymond .