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`` All right , '' said Abey , screwing the guard tightly on his pin . `` I 'll take him on . After he 's seen the Flatiron and the head waiter at the Hotel Astor and heard the phonograph play ` Under the Old Apple Tree ' it 'll be half past ten , and Mr. Texas will be ready to roll up in his blanket . I 've got a supper engagement at 11:30 , but he 'll be all to the Mrs. Winslow before then . '' The next morning at 10 Platt walked into the store ready to do business . He had a bunch of hyacinths pinned on his lapel . Zizzbaum himself waited on him .