about twelve o'clock
`` Bravo ! '' etc. , not because they really enjoyed it , but merely because they thought it was the proper thing to do . After that for three solid hours Rough House Mike and Shifty Sadie seemed to be apologizing to the audience for their disgraceful street brawl , which was honestly the only good thing in the show . Along about twelve o'clock I thought I would talk over old times with Bud , but when I turned his way I found my tried and trusty comrade `` Asleep at the Switch . '' At the finish the woman next to me , who seemed to be on , said that the main lady was dying . After it was too late , Mike seemed kind of sorry . He must have given her the knife , or the drops , because there was n't a minute that he could look in on her according to the rules .