four now , sitting with oy outside the empty clover tavern with its neon beer-signs and silent jukebox , jake reflected on how right roland had been , and how grateful jake himself had been when , after forty-five minutes or so , the gunslinger had looked at him , seen his terrible distress , and excused him from the room where eddie lingered , giving up his vitality an inch at a time , leaving the imprint of his remarkable will on every last inch of his life 's tapestry .