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Arthur got so he lived all the rest of the day and night lookin ' forward to three o'clock in the afternoon . He snarled at the doctors , cuffed the orderlies , did n't know Miss Woods from the iron gate that kept him in there , but the minute Scanlan breezed into the yard with the gloves his face would be one big smile . This went on for three months -- and then Miss Vincent stepped into the thing . She wanted to know where the Kid was goin ' every afternoon at three o'clock , and like a simp , I told her the whole story . She thanks me with a odd look that I did n't get till that night , when the Kid comes tearin ' in to our room at the hotel and slams the door . When he gets where he can make his tongue do like he asks it , he says it 's all off between him and Miss Vincent . By usin ' some judgment and four hours of time I find out that Miss Vincent thinks this stuff about the Kid boxin ' Arthur is a lot of bunk and the Kid was really goin ' back to the sanitarium every day to see Miss Woods .