about eleven o'clock
Their talents were praised in a hundred `` joints '' ; their friendship was famed even in a neighborhood where men had been known to fight off the wives of their friends -- when domestic onslaught was being made upon their friends by the wives of their friends . -LRB- Thus do the limitations of English force us to repetends . -RRB- So , side by side , grim , sallow , lowering , inseparable , undefeated , the cousins fought their way into the temple of Art -- art with a big A , which causes to intervene a lesson in geometry . One night at about eleven o'clock Del Delano dropped into Mike 's place on Eighth Avenue . From that moment , instead of remaining a Place , the café became a Resort . It was as though King Edward had condescended to mingle with ten-spots of a different suit ; or Joe Gans had casually strolled in to look over the Tuskegee School ; or Mr. Shaw , of England , had accepted an invitation to read selections from `` Rena , the Snow-bird '' at an unveiling of the proposed monument to James Owen O'Connor at Chinquapin Falls , Mississippi . In spite of these comparisons , you will have to be told why the patronizing of a third-rate saloon on the West Side by the said Del Delano conferred such a specific honor upon the place .