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Updated: May 7, 2025
"Twenty minutes past three," said I, striking a match under my coat to see my watch-face. "Immortal snakes!" cried Thatcher. "I'm an idiot. This is Sunday night." I failed to see the connection of these startling discoveries, but I had spirit enough to argue the case. "It's Monday morning, now." "Well, it's the same thing. The freight doesn't run to-night."
He fumbled inside his overcoat and tugged out his watch. "Here's a light," said Rogers, and shone the ray of an electric torch upon the watch-face. "A quarter-to-three," grumbled Stringer. "There may be murder going on, and here we are."... A sudden clamor arose upon the shore, near by; a sound as of sledge-hammers at work. But above this pierced shrilly the call of a police whistle.
I asked him again and so on till he had overcome his shyness and at last pulled out his watch which was found to consist of a circular piece of tin with a paper watch-face gummed on to one side of it. Then we all laughed at the contrast between this and what his elaborate watch-chain had led us to expect.
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