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These journeys were called Progresses. The most famous was to Lord Leicester's castle of Kenilworth, but he could quite afford it. He kept the clock's hands at twelve o'clock all the time, that it might always seem to be dinner time! Elizabeth wanted to keep the English Church a pure and true branch of the Church, free of the mistakes that had crept in before her father's time.
The whole thing started when the clock on the Metropolitan Tower began to run backward. It was not a graceful proceeding. The hands had been moving onward in their customary deliberate fashion, slowly and thoughtfully, but suddenly the people in the offices near the clock's face heard an ominous creaking and groaning.
"You're sure about the time?" asked Brereton anxiously. "Certain, master! It was ten minutes to nine when I went out nearly ten when I come back. My clock's always right I set it by the almanack and the sunrise and sunset every day and you can't do better," asserted Mrs. Hamthwaite. "You're equally sure about the second man being Harborough?" insisted Brereton. "You couldn't be mistaken?"
And I beg pardon for being late, but never sleeping a wink all night for fear about this money, I am late this morning, I humbly confess. When I got to the Bank, the doors were shut. Our clock's correct; that I know. My belief, sir, is, the clerks at Mortimer and Pennycuick's put on the time." "Oh! we must have this inquired into."
It sometimes happens that the warping moves it from its place, so that the sockets of the pointers rub, and many times it is the cause of the clock's stopping; this can be remedied by pareing out the centre on the side required. Soft verges are no uncommon cause of clocks stopping, and those who travel to repair clocks generally overlook this trouble.
The two voyagers were sadder by sympathy than the two whom they were leaving to the clock's round of desert sameness. About ten at night Chillon and Mr. Wythan escorted Carinthia, for the night's watch beside her uncle, down to Lekkatts. It was midway that the knocks on air, as of a muffled mallet at a door and at farther doors of caverns, smote their ears and shook the ground.
Do you think it's very bad to just look 'round at the clock sometimes? Our church clock's right under the gallery scats, behind us, and it goes the slowest of any I ever saw! Sometimes, when I've waited 'most an hour before I looked 'round, it won't be five minutes by that clock!
He closed his eyes; he tried to realise who and where he was; all he could remember, however, went into a single sentence and kept repeating itself on the waves of his singing, dancing blood: "Clock's stopped, clock's stopped, stopped clocks, stopped clocks...!" till it sounded like a puzzle sentence then lost all meaning.
Up among the larches a faint chopping sound could just be heard, irregular but persistent. The man put a hand to his mouth, and hailed "Hi-i-i! Knock off! Stable clock's gone noo-oon!" Came back no answer.
Well, I suppose so, said Mr. Mohun, with a certain sorrowfulness of tone, into which his little daughter entered. 'I say, Rotherwood, exclaimed the colonel, as the town clock's two strokes for the half-hour echoed loudly, 'if you mean to catch the 4.50, you must fly. 'Fly! he coolly repeated. 'Tell Mysie, Lily, that Fly has never ceased talking of her.
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