8 P.M.
The boss is nutty about having the true Old-World flavour to his joint . ` Halberdiers goes with Rindsloshes , ' says he , ` just as rats goes with rathskellers and white cotton stockings with Tyrolean villages . ' The boss is a kind of a antiologist , and is all posted up on data and such information . `` From 8 P.M. to two in the morning was the halberdier 's hours . He got two meals with us help and a dollar a night . I eat with him at the table . He liked me .