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Bramwell Olcott Bartine

A man who cannot look his own watch in the face, and who tells a visitor why the timepiece his Tory great-grandfather wore came home without him.

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Also known as Bartine, the late Bramwell Olcott Bartine

First appearance: John Bartine's Watch

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John Bartine's great-grandfather, a Colonial Virginia Tory who was arrested by American rebels and disappeared.
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John Bartine sits by the fire and refuses, with a mysterious reluctance, to answer so simple a question as the time of night, until his guest's impudence forces the story out of him. The watch has been in his family for…

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