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Updated: June 10, 2025
My father sent in his name, and there we sat, looking at the white Italian statuettes in the corners, and the picture of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples which hung over the harpsichord. I can remember that a black clock was ticking loudly upon the mantelpiece, and that every now and then, amid the rumble of the hackney coaches, we could hear boisterous laughter from some inner chamber.
"I heard " Aunt Abby paused, and blushed a little "you'll laugh, I know, but I heard his watch ticking!" "Oh, come now, Aunt Abby, that's a little too much! I can't help smiling at that! For I'm sure ghosts don't carry watches, and anyway not in a gymnasium suit!" "I knew you'd jeer at it, but I did hear the ticking, all the same." "Wasn't your own watch under your pillow?" "Yes." "Oh, all right.
The landlady had tight gray hair, a hard bitten hatchet face, and a back that curved through a forty-degree arc between the lumbar and the cervical vertebræ, a curve which was accentuated by the faded longitudinal blue and white stripes like ticking of the dress she wore. She had no charms, one would have said, of person, mind or manner.
The featured moon on its dial had lifted one eye, as if to watch the child, as it had watched so many generations of children, while the swinging pendulum ticked them along into youth, maturity, gray hairs, deathbeds, ticking through the prayer at the funeral, ticking without grief through all the still or noisy woe of mourning, ticking without joy when the smiles and gayety of comforted heirs had come back again.
I lay down on a sofa opposite the alcove, and the coldness of death settled on my soul. The pulsation of the blood in the arteries is a sort of clock, the ticking of which can be heard only at night. Man, free from exterior attractions, falls back upon himself; he hears himself live.
It would bribe, and cheaply. Ten dollars, perhaps, that ticking insult. For ten dollars He held it close to his spectacles. Ah, but it was not so cheap. It came from the best shop in the city. He weighed it carefully in his hand, and in so doing saw the monogram. A doubt crept into his mind, a cold and chilling fear. Since when had the Spencer plant taken to giving watches for Christmas?
And for the last week she's been gathering her own things trinkets, and furbelows, and jew'lry and, Jack, I think she's goin' off. I could stand all but that. To have her steal away like a thief " He put his face downward to the pillow, and for a few moments there was no sound but the ticking of a clock on the mantel. Mr. Hamlin lit a cigar, and moved to the open window.
In addition to his lamp, therefore, he had now a repeater in his room; the sound was at first too loud, but, after muffling the hammer with cloth, both the ticking and the striking became companionable sounds to him.
As she tossed to and fro the recollections of the day turned and turned in her brain, ticking loudly, and she could see each event as distinctly as the figures on the dial of a great clock. 'What a strange woman that Mrs. Fargus her spectacles, her short hair, and that dreadful cap which she wore at the tennis party! It was impossible not to feel sorry for her, she did look so ridiculous.
But she could only hear the crude, sharp ticking of the cheap clock which, as she knew, Aguilar had supplied to Jane Foley. The vision of Jane lying unconscious or dead obsessed her. Then she thrust it away and laughed at it. Assuredly Aguilar and Jane must have received some alarm as to a reappearance of the police; they must have fled while there had yet been time. Where could they have gone?
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