About eleven o'clock
An element of demagoguery tampered with the Irish vote in the person of Jerry , nominally porter , but actually factotum , who had hitherto , pending the strikes of the different functionaries , filled the offices now united in Lemuel . He had never been clerk , because his literature went no further than the ability to write his name , and to read a passage of the constitution in qualifying for the suffrage . He did not like the new order of things , but he was without a party , and helpless to do more than neglect the gong-bell when he had reason to think Lemuel had sounded it . About eleven o'clock the law-student came in with the two girl art-students , fresh from the outside air , and gay from the opera they had been hearing . The young man told Lemuel he ought to go to see it . After the girls had opened their door , one of them came running back to the elevator , and called down to Lemuel that there was no ice-water , and would he please send some up . Lemuel brought it up himself , and when he knocked at the door , the same girl opened it and made a pretty outcry over the trouble she had given him .