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Updated: May 24, 2025
Darrin, there is a pair of your shoes. They are in place, but one of them is muddy." Dave glanced at the shoes uneasily, a flush coming to his face. "I am certain, sir, that both shoes were in proper condition when I left to go to the last recitation." "Then how do you account for the dust-marked dress jacket on the floor, and the muddy shoe, Mr. Darrin?"
"He never was lost." "Oh no, no, my dear boy. But his work was so like the finding the stained, tarnished piece of silver, cast aside, defaced, dust-marked, and by simple duty and affection bringing her back." "I see! Let us have the inscription in Greek. Then none can apply it to himself!
On the high wainscoted walls he could still trace the vacant dust-marked squares where the Blake portraits had once hung lines that the successive scrubbings of fifteen years had not utterly effaced.
Follow him to the temple, and there you will find him one of a company with dust-marked forehead, moving lips, and the never absent beads, going the rounds of the sacred place, prostrating himself at every shrine, bowing before every idol, and striking pious attitudes at every new object of reverence that meets his eye.
These were soiled and torn. Whose were they, then, and how was it that they were there? He shook the sleeper lightly and a dust-marked face was lifted from the sheltering bed-clothes. But the face was not that of Fremont, but of Jimmie McGraw. Nestor started back in wonder. How had the boy come there, and where was Fremont? Had he been taken by the police?
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