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Updated: May 13, 2025
Richard Parsons, in his shop at Number 15 Goswell Street, had all the time in the world to make his clock, and could fuss about and experiment to his heart's content. Probably no one ever thought of jogging him on or pestering him to know if his work wasn't done." Ruefully McPhearson shrugged his shoulders. "Now I couldn't make a clock even were I so minded," he continued with a whimsical smile.
They are patient, faithful, useful, and were they to be taken out of the world they would be terribly missed and would leave it a pretty higgledy-piggledy place." "I guess there is no danger of the world being without clocks," returned Christopher comfortably. "There seem to be plenty to go round." "But there weren't always plenty," broke in McPhearson quickly.
"They ought to," McPhearson answered solemnly. "Everybody's time has a money equivalent in these days. If a man keeps me waiting or talks my time away, he robs me of five or ten or twenty dollars, according to the length of the interval he has kept me from my work." "Great Scot!" exclaimed the boy in consternation. "At that rate I've run up a whale of a bill."
McPhearson thinks," said Christopher, rising. "Clocks are almost people to him." "Are you going, sonny?" "Yes, I guess I'll quit bothering you and bother Mr. McPhearson for a while. Dad said I mustn't make too long calls on people." Moving off, the lad called the elevator and ascended to the fourth floor where he found his friend, the Scotchman, in the lowest of spirits.
We're to go down to headquarters and identify the chap." "Then it really was Stuart!" "Sure thing!" Hollings was actually trembling with joy. "Oh, I hope they'll find those diamonds on him! At least, they'll probably be able to make him tell where they are. If we can only get that ring back, I shall die happy." "So you were right after all, Christopher," McPhearson put in. "Apparently!"
"And what do you say to its glass back and its beautifully chased works?" McPhearson turned his treasure round. "It was made to set on a table you see, or before the mirror that hung above the fireplace, in either of which spots the back of it would show almost as much as the front. Therefore its works were engraved, that one side should be quite as pleasing as the other."
Accordingly in 1854 they put up a new factory at Waltham, Massachusetts, and it is this structure, standing to this day, that was the first building of the Waltham Watch factory." "So the Waltham Watch factory is the grandfather of all the others, is it?" commented Christopher. "It is both the oldest and the largest," declared McPhearson.
And before a week was out I should be the most miserable of mortals, in consequence," retorted the Scotchman quickly. "No, no! It is better to be perched up here on a bus whizzing to doctor a balky old clock than to be idle day in and day out." "Where is the balky old clock you mention?" Christopher inquired. "In a fine mansion not far from here," replied McPhearson.
It had not taken him long to sift out those who tolerated him from motives of pity or policy and those who really liked him, and he was not a little proud to class in the latter group both Mr. Rhinehart and the Scotchman, McPhearson. Mr. Rhinehart not only had boys of his own but was in addition enough of a boy himself to be dowered with a keen sympathy and understanding of them.
Choose quickly for there isn't much leeway " "I'll have the dance." "On with the dance!" McPhearson exclaimed gayly. Opening the door at the front he moved the single hand until it pointed to the air desired.
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