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The tavern was a sprawled-out house, with an arch of glass panes over the entrance door. A fat post stood in front of it, upholding a swinging sign. The tavern-keeper came out of the door to meet them when they stopped, and helped his guests alight, while a hostler stood ready to lead the horses away.
Thus it happened that at eleven o'clock that evening, he paused before a bench in the plaza, bowered in the bloom of creepers which flowed down from a balcony of the Kast, and occupied by the comfortably sprawled-out form of Mr. Thomas Cluff, who was making a burnt offering to Morpheus. "Good-evening!" said Mr. Carroll pleasantly. "Evenin'! How's things?" returned the other.
Then his merry eyes fell on Jack's sprawled-out figure, his feet almost in the grate a favorite attitude of his neighbor's when tired out with the day's work, comfortable perhaps, but especially objectionable at the moment. "Here get up, you old stick-in-the-mud. Don't sit there, doubled up like a government mule," he laughed. "If the fellows are coming they'll be here in half an hour.