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Updated: June 25, 2025
And meanwhile the boy was being placed just below, and a little to one side of the big clock. "Remove the lower half of the clock-case!" It was done in a few seconds. The instrument's pendulum now vibrated freely in the air, its weight swinging almost to the boy's head where he sat. "Move him until I drop my hand," said Norbith.
He shrank farther behind the clock. "I have never been so questioned," he cried. I showed him that I knew his secret, "Rome was not built in a day," said I. "He! He!" he cried. Then, as I turned away, he put his head from behind the clock-case and tapped his forehead with his forefinger. So also did the man with the shiny coat, who stood before the empty fireplace.
"He sat for a few moments as if contemplating the alternatives I had placed before him sat with one hand in his table-drawer, seeking for papers, I thought. He desisted from doing this, and said quite suddenly, 'The proofs are in the clock-case. "I had no suspicion. He had once shown me a curious receptacle in the bottom of the clock-case, where he kept papers.
He stooped swiftly and picked up a key from the floor. "Robert must have taken it out after locking the door." "Perhaps it fell out when we were breaking in the door," observed the doctor. "Of course. I forgot that. I notice that the clock is stopped at half-past nine." He bent down to examine it. "My brother kept private papers in the clock-case," he added. "Yes it is as I thought.
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