a quarter to eight
Who says I decided to buy the house ? '' Elkan cried . `` J. Kamin did , '' Polatkin explained . `` He was here by a quarter to eight already ; and not alone J. Kamin was here , but Joel Ribnik and Julius Tarnowitz comes in also . Scheikowitz and me has been on the jump , I bet yer ; in fact , Scheikowitz is in there now with J. Kamin and Tarnowitz . Between 'em , those fellers has picked out four thousand dollars ' goods . '' Elkan looked at his partner in unfeigned astonishment .