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Updated: May 10, 2025
Instinctively Jean Jacques drew out the ancient timepiece he had worn on the Grand Tour; which had gone down with the Antoine and come up with himself. It gave him courage to make the fight for his own. "The good God would see that " he began. "The good God doesn't interfere in bringing up babies," she retorted. "That's the work for the fathers and mothers, or godfathers and godmothers."
"Twelve," he repeated; and, behind this mask of common-place dialogue, they watched one another warily, and still with pity, on Robert's side. "You can't place any reliance on watches," said Edward. "None, I believe," Robert remarked. "If you could see the sun every day in this climate!" Edward looked up. "Ah, the sun's the best timepiece, when visible," Robert acquiesced.
"Take my place for a moment," said Indiman. He went to the clock on the mantel-piece and stopped it. When he came back to the table he had his watch in his hand; he laid it face downward by the pistol. "Do you carry a timepiece?" he inquired of Grenelli. The prisoner shook his head. "Very good," continued Indiman. "We are now ready for our little experiment. Let me again have your best attention.
The brisk strokes of the nervous little modern clock mingled with the solemn sonorous beat of an old New England timepiece whose wooden works creaked and labored complainingly. Elaborate Swiss chimes pealed from others; through the darkness, a persistent cuckoo could be heard throwing open a small shutter and stridently announcing his version of the time.
Out of the thumb-hole stuck half a dozen brushes wired together in a round bunch and covered with gilt paint. The clock never was wound. It went so fast that it was useless as a timepiece. Over it, however, hung a large and striking picture, a species of cheap photogravure, a lion lying in his cage, looking mildly at the spectator over his shoulder.
The old man slipped the leather thong from his buttonhole and laid the watch on the board in front of him. "It cost me a dollar two or three years ago" what was a year to him in his fruitless life, anyway? "and if you want to give me a dollar for it now you can take it." Slavens took up the timepiece after putting down the required price. "I paid for my bed in advance, you remember?" said he.
With an effort the dog had pawed from his mouth the watch, which, being rather large and of peculiar shape, had for some time, been stuck in his jaws. It rolled out on the floor, and the colonel stooped to pick it up. But Jack noticed that his chief used a wad of the tissue paper with which to handle the timepiece, which was no longer ticking.
It was an unexplainable act, but a possible one; while to suppose that it was going when the shelves fell, stretched improbability to the utmost, there having been, so far as we could learn, no one in the house for months sufficiently dexterous to set so valuable a timepiece; for who could imagine the scrub-woman engaging in a task requiring such delicate manipulation.
From that time until he came into possession of Conniston's timepiece he was his own hour-glass and his own alarm clock. He became proficient. Brady's bed and the Circe-breasted pillows that supported his head were his undoing.
"I'll wager he wasn't in the crowd for any good purpose," went on Dick, as he remembered how he had suffered the loss of his timepiece at Buddy Girk's hands. Dick had had a good deal of trouble in recovering the article. "He ought to be pointed out to the police," put in Frank. "It's not safe to have such men at large."
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