noon
On the ninth the wagon arrived with the furniture , and the men set to work on the bedroom . From this moment Morgan retired definitely to the top of the tower , and Owen became too nervous to lay the necessary amount of paint on the Earthquake at Lisbon . On the tenth the work was proceeding bravely . Toward noon Owen and I strolled to the door to enjoy the fine autumn sunshine . We were sitting lazily on our favorite bench in front of the tower when we were startled by a shout from above us . Looking up directly , we saw Morgan half in and half out of his narrow window in the seventh story , gesticulating violently with the stem of his long meerschaum pipe in the direction of the road below us . We gazed eagerly in the quarter thus indicated , but our low position prevented us for some time from seeing anything .