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These have been made by an experienced operator, and were bought either for a mask ball or some other purpose." "Well, perhaps we'll never know the truth about it," grumbled Andy, who never liked anything to puzzle him and would lie awake half the night trying to find the answer to a conundrum that had been offered to him by a boy friend.
After re-ascending these stairs I stood once more looking idly down over the balustrade, going over in my mind the parts of the puzzle which had been set for me to bring together into an intelligible and perfectly rounded whole, and wondering what I would succeed in making of it all. For a while I was aware of a strange lack of confidence in myself, of a feeling of uncertainty.
He too was struck with amazement at the desertion of the house. He measured the candles, he scrutinised the fires, he went round the building out and in and he could but conclude that we must be close upon the gate when the house was abandoned. "But why abandon it?" I asked. "That's the Skyeman's puzzle; it would take seven men and seven years to answer it," said he.
Brooke had listened thoughtfully to all that had thus far been said. The Carlist chief was a puzzle to him, but he saw that there was talk of holding to ransom, which to him had an ugly sound. "Sir," said he, "are we to be kept prisoners in this tower?" "This tower, is it?" said "His Majesty." "Begorra, I hope not. There's another tower a dale betther nor this.
If we could remove the dam of glacial boulders and gravel at the lower end of the lake, the water would be lowered only three hundred feet. The lake would not be drained, for it is very much deeper. Now here is another puzzle for us: the bottom of the lake is more than one thousand feet below the level of the Columbia.
Claire felt vaguely disturbed, but the next half-hour passed so pleasantly that she had no time to puzzle over the explanation.
"You're a regular encyclopaedia about the place," laughed Bryce. "I suppose you know every spout and gargoyle!" "Ought to," answered the librarian. "I've been fed on it, man and boy, for five-and-forty years." Bryce made some fitting remark and went out and home to his rooms there to spend most of the ensuing evening in trying to puzzle out the various mysteries of the day.
Each tip of hair which you grow, is an incomprehensible prodigy which would puzzle us for ever, if we did not call to our aid those eternal laws which have made us what we are, and to which it is very just our spirits should submit, since we could not exist for one second were they to cease from making themselves obeyed in our bodies. Reflect on this, my dear little pupil.
Can it be that, after all, space and circumstance are but pieces in a puzzle to which the key is lost, so that, playing blindly, we are startled by the click which announces the falling of some corner of the puzzle into place? Or is it merely that we are all more closely linked than we know, and is "coincidence" but the flashing of one of numberless invisible links into the light of common day?
There is no human brain or organisation responsible for fitting together this vast jig-saw puzzle; and, that being so, I say that what should really excite our wonder is the fact that that puzzle should somehow get fitted together, usually with so few gaps left unfilled and with so few pieces left unplaced.
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