The Smugglers' Tavern

tavern

A cellar under the lowest terrace with its own door onto the road, where places at the gate are bought and sold that nobody can sell. The smuggler holds court at the back table with a ledger in which every night officer for forty years is entered with a note of what they took and what they refused, and petitioners pay for a page. A door at the back leads to a tunnel that ends, after sixty paces, in rock; everybody knows, and everybody pays to see it once. Custom: a deal is sealed with a coin la...

Located in The Last Pass.