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Updated: May 7, 2025
He was a watchmaker, had a few clocks on the shelves of his small establishment, and a limited display of jewelry in the window, together with a supply of watch-keys, and minute-hands and hour-hands for decayed watches. For though his sign proclaimed him a watchmaker, his occupation perforce was rather that of repairing and cleaning watches and clocks than in the higher branch of creation.
A silence, as of the expectation of some Shiloh, pervaded the swarming plain. Suddenly a dull, mangled sound naught ringing in it; scarcely audible, indeed, to the outer circles of the people that dull sound dropped heavily from the belfry. At the same moment, each man stared at his neighbor blankly. All watches were upheld. All hour-hands were at had passed the figure 1.
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