about 11 A.M.
Bud gave us a lot of hot air about his mother 's cousin standing fifteen balls in the New York Four , and how that made him a nonresident member , and if we did just as he said , he would put us in right . He told us that there were thousands of people right in New York City , any one of whom would give a cool million for our opportunity . Johnny immediately began to figure , on how he would treat certain people over in Pittsburg who had given him the eye in bygone days ; and I got so struck on myself that I cut the head waiter dead , although I had known him intimately for years . Along about 11 A.M. the deal went through by ` phone for seven o'clock that evening . Bud went to get shaved , and Johnny and I retired to the bar to wait until it was time to get ready for the dinner . Well , sir , I never met so many people in all my life as we met in that bar . There was a wine agent whom everybody called Dick , and I 'm for Dick .