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Even for such a man whose only sense of family was to look at it as a make-believe concept, a mere abstraction, which time erased or, if having something material within it at all that could be grasped, which was always snuffed away, washed out to sea as last year's tsunami victims, but needing to be washed away, vanished like Bonaparte, Hitler, Mussolini, General Phibun, and one day even the emperor Bush, but leaving its stain a stain that would trouble the mind and upset a positive mood as any fading but never fully diminished nightmare.
It had occurred to me as probable that, after Miss Cowley flung it on the floor, certain words might have been erased and altered with the express intention of setting searchers on a false trail." Carter nodded. He took a sheet from his pocket, and read aloud: "Come at once, Astley Priors, Gatehouse, Kent. Great developments TOMMY." "Very simple," said Sir James, "and very ingenious.
Geddie went into his office and sat down to dawdle over his report. If the reading of the article in the paper had left him unshaken, this silent passing of the Idalia had done for him still more. It had brought the calm and peace of a situation from which all uncertainty had been erased. He knew that men sometimes hope without being aware of it.
Delia, on the other hand, though she apparently received them with the most gay indifference, in reality drank deep of the poison of love, and the words of Damon made an impression upon her heart, that was not easily to be erased. But however delicious was the scene in which they were engaged, it necessarily drew to a conclusion. The drowsy clocks now announced the hour of three in the morning.
An incompletely erased address in a pocket diary belonging to Beamish led Willis to a small shop on the south side of London, where he discovered an assistant who had sold a square of black serge to two men, about the time of Coburn's murder.
He looked up and down the street and then drew a long breath, and put the paper against the wall again and sighed as he erased the thirty-five dollars and put down fifty dollars after his name. Then he started for the bank to see General Hendricks. The large white plumes were still dancing in his eyes.
"The man has been missing for nearly thirty years." "And you made constant inquiries for him in the north," I added. "But he may not have remained in the wilderness," cried the law clerk. "Perhaps he went south again by another road. It is even possible that he claimed his trunk and that by mistake this name was not erased."
A few tears trickled down the smooth cheeks it was an ingratiating boy on the verge of manhood that Rossiter saw before him. He hastened to say: "My dear chap! Don't say another word, unless you like to blackguard me for my impertinence in putting these questions. I quite understand. We'll consider the whole thing erased from our memories.
"I did not answer, but looked sternly at her, in order to discompose her. At length I said "'You should have written, madame, and warned me that my coming would be indiscreet. "She seemed much disconcerted, and exclaimed "'I am lost! I see you guess everything, and will tell my husband. I am an unhappy woman, and a sin once committed can never be erased from the pages of a woman's life!
"The fellow made two bad breaks, though. That piece of shirt is one. This foot-print is another. They may land him in the pen yet." "I don't think it," returned the old man with composure, and as he spoke his foot erased the telltale print. "I 'low there won't anybody go to the pen for he'pin himself to Mr. Morse's gold dust. I don't give a cuss who it was." Norris laughed in his low, easy way.
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