10 o'clock
Whenever he broke a pushcart man 's head or shot a member of the Heinrick B. Sweeney Outing and Literary Association in the kneecap , an officer would drop around and say : `` The Cap'n 'd like to see ye a few minutes round to the office whin ye have time , Dempsey , me boy . '' But there would be sundry gentlemen there with large gold fob chains and black cigars ; and somebody would tell a funny story , and then Dempsey would go back and work half an hour with the six-pound dumbbells . So , doing a tight-rope act on a wire stretched across Niagara was a safe terpsichorean performance compared with waltzing twice with Dempsey Donovan 's paper-box girl . At 10 o'clock the jolly round face of `` Big Mike '' O'Sullivan shone at the door for five minutes upon the scene . He always looked in for five minutes , smiled at the girls and handed out real perfectos to the delighted boys . Dempsey Donovan was at his elbow instantly , talking rapidly . `` Big Mike '' looked carefully at the dancers , smiled , shook his head and departed .