"How clever of me!" he thought at once, and signed to the boys not to burst into applause. They he realised that he was doing it himself, and in a flash he understood the situation. At first he thought the sound did come from the crocodile, and he looked behind him swiftly. The crocodile! No sooner did Peter remember it than he heard the ticking. On the contrary, he thought he had scaled her side as noiseless as a mouse and he was amazed to see the pirates cowering from him, with Hook in their midst as abject as if he had heard the crocodile. Had he known he would have stopped, for to board the brig by help of the tick, though an ingenious idea, had not occurred to him. As he swam he had but one thought: "Hook or me this time." He had ticked so long that he now went on ticking without knowing that he was doing it. Thus many animals pass from land to water, but no other human of whom I know. Peter reached the shore without mishap, and went straight on, his legs encountering the water as if quite unaware that they had entered a new element. The crocodile was among those who heard the sound, and it followed him, though whether with the purpose of regaining what it had lost, or merely as a friend under the belief that it was again ticking itself, will never be certainly known, for, like slaves to a fixed idea, it was a stupid beast. He ticked superbly, but with one unforeseen result. Without giving a thought to what might be the feelings of a fellow-creature thus abruptly deprived of its closest companion, Peter began to consider how he could turn the catastrophe to his own use and he decided to tick, so that wild beasts should believe he was the crocodile and let him pass unmolested. At first he thought this eerie, but soon concluded rightly that the clock had run down. He had seen the crocodile pass by without noticing anything peculiar about it, but by and by he remembered that it had not been ticking. When last we saw him he was stealing across the island with one finger to his lips and his dagger at the ready. Now such an experience had come that night to Peter. Thus, to take an instance, we suddenly discover that we have been deaf in one ear for we don't know how long, but, say, half an hour. Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.
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