Chapter

 1 II|       it might happen that his absence would be prolonged for some
 2 VI|      himself, had remarked the absence of the characteristic odor
 3 IX| brought forward to explain his absence. They learnt, by questioning
 4 IX|       of but the unaccountable absence of the engineer. Sir W.
 5 IX|     such a man, this prolonged absence, so contrary to his usual
 6 IX|        only worried by Harry’s absence, telling himself that something
 7 IX|       could not understand his absence, for Harry was not a man
 8 IX|        engineer?~The prolonged absence of James Starr proved that
 9 IX|   family for several days.~The absence of the tenants of the cottage
10 IX|        account for such a long absence? Certainly not.~It was intensely