the grandfather clock^✦︎

Also the clock, a grandfather clock

The cottage's grandfather clock, which the drunken Brinkley wrestles with; it strikes thirteen.

Connections

dealings

• Brinkley smashes 1

Talked about, but not there

1. Unable to wash off the polish, Bertie finds a drunken Brinkley wrecking the cottage, is chased into the bedroom by him with a carving knife as the Devil, keeps quiet when Sergeant Voules arrives, and flees through the window after Brinkley upsets a lamp and sets the cottage ablaze, leaving the banjolele behind.Chapter 13, Seaview Cottage, as a grandfather clock