afternoon three o'clock
` On account , ' he says , ` if a _ Schlemiel _ like you would got a relation which is going to leave you money , Rashkind , ' he says , ` it would be just your luck that the relation dies one day after you do , even if you would live to be a hundred . ' '' He walked toward the door and paused on the threshold . `` Yes , Mr. Polatkin , '' he concluded , `` you could take it from me , if that feller 's got heart disease , Mr. Polatkin , it ai n't from overworking it . So I would ring you up to-morrow afternoon three o'clock and see if Elkan 's come yet . '' `` I 'm agreeable , '' Polatkin declared ; `` only one thing I got to ask you : you should keep your mouth shut to my partner , on account if he hears it that I am bringing back Elkan from the road just for this here Miss Maslik , understand me , he would never let me hear the end of it . '' Rashkind made a reassuring gesture with his right arm after the fashion of a swimmer who employs the overhand stroke . `` What have I got to do with your partner ? ''