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watch a hundred times; now they'll find my story's true, I reckon. That watch and I will stop at the same minute." The woman at the bedside shook her head again. "It's an old fancy o'yourn, Mike Barlow, " she said; "you'll live to see the folly of it." "So they talk," said the man. "Now listen, doctor. You've come for to see me and done all you could. I'll give you that watch. Its money valley aren't much, but it'll do you service. It was give to me by an old Frenchman out o' Canady, when he was layin' just as I am layin'. It had been his father's, and grandfather's, and his great-grandfather's before that; and this is what he told me about it, and this is what you'll find to be truth. That watch will tick slow and steady, reg'lar as the sun, as long as whoever it belongs to is well, and safe, and thriving. When there's danger coming, it begins to go fast, faster, and faster and faster, until it is past, and so loud that you can hear it across the room as plain as if