title: The Double Cousins and the Mystery of the Missing Watch
author:  Miriam Jones Bradley 
description: Miriam Jones Bradley has lived "from sea to shining sea" but spent most of her life in the Great Plains. She and her husband, Dr. Bruce Bradley now make their home in Newberry, South Carolina.
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  Miss Tempy's Watchers  
    
  
  
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  # Miss Tempy's Watchers
  
  
  ### Sarah Orne Jewett
  
  
  
  
  
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  The time of year was April; the place was a small farming town in New
  Hampshire, remote from any railroad. One by one the lights had been blown out
  in the scattered houses near Miss Tempy Dent's; but as her neighbors took a
  last look out-of-doors, their eyes turned with instinctive curiosity toward
  the old house, where a lamp burned steadily. They gave a little sigh. "Poor
  Miss Tempy!" said more than one bereft acquaintance; for the good woman lay
  dead in her north chamber, and the light was a watcher's light. The funeral
  was set for the next day, at one o'clock.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The watchers were two of the oldest friends, Mrs. Crowe and Sarah Ann Binson.
  They were sitting in the kitchen, because