nearly twelve o'clock
Maybe it 's this young feller what I see there , Mawruss , only I do n't know his name . '' `` Well , then , I 'll make it out to Potash & Perlmutter , and you can indorse it when you get there , '' said Morris . At this juncture a customer entered , and Abe took him into the show-room , while Morris wrote out the check . For almost an hour and a half Abe displayed the firm 's line , from which the customer selected a generous order , and when at last Abe was free to go down to Gunst & Baumer 's it was nearly twelve o'clock . He put on his hat and coat , and jumped on a passing car , and it was not until he had traveled two blocks that he remembered the check . He ran all the way back to the store and , tearing the check out of the checkbook where Morris had left it , he dashed out again and once more boarded a Broadway car . In front of Gunst & Baumer 's offices he leaped wildly from the car to the street , and , escaping an imminent fire engine and a hosecart , he ran into the doorway and took the stairs three at a jump .