ten o'clock Monday
`` Come over the day after Christmas , '' he was told , `` and we 'll give you a trial . '' `` I wonder , '' thought Jimmy as he started for home , `` if I have gone up a notch in the social scale or down a notch ? From the view-point of the underworld a pug occupies a more exalted position than a waiter ; but -- oh , well , a job 's a job , and at least I wo n't have to look at that greasy Feinheimer all day . '' At ten o'clock Monday Jimmy was at Young Brophy 's training quarters , for , although he had not forgotten Harriet Holden 's invitation , he had never seriously considered availing himself of her offer to help him to a better position . While he had not found it difficult to accept the rough friendship and assistance of the Lizard , the idea of becoming an object of `` charity , '' as he considered it , at the hands of a girl in the same walk of life as that to which he belonged was intolerable . Young Brophy 's manager , whom Jimmy discovered to be one of the men who had accosted him in Feinheimer 's after his trouble with Murray , took him into a private office and talked with him confidentially for a half-hour before he was definitely employed . It seemed that one of the principal requisites of the position was a willingness to take punishment without attempting to inflict too much upon Young Brophy .