CHAPTER VIII
AN ADVENTURE
As they went out to board a returning bus, Christopher remarked regretfully:
"I'd have given a cent to see the rest of those clocks."
"What clocks?" inquired McPhearson with surprise.
"Why, Mr. Hawley's."
The Scotchman halted abruptly in the middle of the sidewalk.
"My goodness!" ejaculated he. "I never thought of it! Why under the sun didn't you speak up, laddie?"
"I didn't like to," replied the boy with diffidence. "I was afraid it might bother somebody."
"Not an atom. On the contrary Ebenezer would have been proud as a peacock to show them off. You could have been wandering round with him while I was fussing over Seventeen as well as not. It's a pity."