I" she stopped hopelessly, and glanced, without meaning to do so, at the clock-face on the mantel beside him.

On a church steeple a block away a round clock-face told the minutes, and Bronson wondered, if they dragged so slowly to him, how tardily they must follow one another to the men in the prison, who could not see the clock's face.

She stood for a moment looking at the great iron gate, and then at the clock-face glowing dully through the falling snow: it showed a quarter to twelve.

They could not see the clock-face from where they stood, and when Bronson took out his watch and looked at it, the girl turned her face to his appealingly, but did not speak.

His brazier was placed on one of the buttresses, and threw its light on the mighty central tower of the fabric, and on a large clock-face immediately beneath.

In two of them the clock-face actually appears, in others it has evidently had a strong influence, and in the rest its influence is indicated, but nothing more.

It becomes now a duty to me to do so, for it is a fourth case of the influence of the clock-face.

"Take me along to him," she commanded, and lifted her face impudently to the clock-face of St. Barnabas above the mean roofs.