I must work--work hard to make money for my pet when I am gone, that she may not be dependent on the bounty of those English sisters." "But I won't care for money when you are gone, grandfather," said the child, her eyes filling with tears.

"I would rather just go on living in this little house, and I am sure the neighbours would give me something to eat, and then I could hear all your clocks ticking, and think of you.
I don't want you to sell all your wonderful things for money for me, grandfather.

They would remind me of you, and money wouldn't." "Not all, Sybilla, not all," said the old man.

"The best of all, the _chef-d'oeuvre_ of my life, shall not be sold.

It shall be yours, and you will have in your possession a clock that crowned heads might seek in vain to purchase." His dim old eyes brightened, and for a moment he sat erect and strong.
"Do you mean the cuckoo clock ?" said Sybilla, in a low voice.
"Yes, my darling, the cuckoo clock, the crowning work of my life--a clock that shall last long after I, and perhaps thou, my pretty child, are crumbling into dust; a clock that shall last to tell my great-grandchildren to many generations that the old Dutch mechanic was not altogether to be despised." Sybilla sprang into his arms.
"You are not to talk like that, little grandfather," she said.