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AT eight o'clock a bell sounded through the Overbeck house, to tell everybody to get up. At eight-thirty it would sound again, telling them to come to breakfast.
It had been so as long as Norman could remember -- except that on week-days the bell sounded an hour earlier. And that bell, like the voice of J. J. Overbeck himself, had always been obeyed. But this morning, though the bell struck into his sleeping consciousness, he did not want to wake up. He wanted to hold fast to the dream he was dreaming. Something about being off on a ship, alone.