"Let me look at it."

Reluctantly he drew out the watch, and into the woman's eyes crept a covetous gleam, as she advanced and took it in her hand.

"It's pretty," she said. "What's it worth?"

"I don't know," answered Dean. "I didn't buy it. It was a present to me."

"It ought to be worth a good sum."

"I value it because it was given me by a friend," said Dean hurriedly.

"We've got nothing to tell time by," said the woman, slowly, still eying the watch with a fixed look, "except the sun."

Dean did not reply.

"How do you wind it up?" asked the woman after a pause. "Do you have a key?"

"No; it's a stem-winder."