A world traveler and explorer is living out his last days as he dies from an illness he contracted in Borneo, where he spent considerable time with a head-hunting tribe. He has in his den above the fireplace a grizzly clock with two human thigh bones for hands and shrunken human heads to mark out the hours. His daughter is engaged to a man the father disapproves of and he states his objection quite clearly and directly. When the fiancée finds the head from the 7:00 place on the clock in his bed he return it and inquires about the mystery. Promptly, at 7:00, he drops dead. Good, says the father, now his daughter is free to marry someone more to his liking. But when the man he approves of turns up with a new wife in tow, he is not pleased. What power does the clock have? 