noon
Lawanne seemed to be a favored guest now , at Bland 's . Lawanne worked upon his book , but by fits and starts , working when he did work with a feverish concentration . He had a Chinese boy for house-servant . He might be found at noon or at midnight sprawled in a chair beside a pot-bellied stove , scrawling in an ungainly hand across sheets of yellow paper . He had no set hours for work . When he did work , when he had the vision and the fit was on and words came easily , chance callers met with scant courtesy . But he had great stores of time to spare , for all that .