Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . -, turns to the otherportions of the paper, and forgets them. But they too frequently represent a tragedyof the most pathetic kind. Here is the homeof the young girl who has suddenly dropped,as it were, out of existence ; who yesterdaywas in her accustomed place at the family 72 L1\MX(; AN ENOUIKVAT THE POLICE-STATION table, and to-da} is a mystery—a somethingthat \\as, and is not. The father and the mother sit together,comforting each otiier, building up theories ofhope, imagining explan
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . -, turns to the otherportions of the paper, and forgets them. But they too frequently represent a tragedyof the most pathetic kind. Here is the homeof the young girl who has suddenly dropped,as it were, out of existence ; who yesterdaywas in her accustomed place at the family 72 L1\MX(; AN ENOUIKVAT THE POLICE-STATION table, and to-da} is a mystery—a somethingthat \\as, and is not. The father and the mother sit together,comforting each otiier, building up theories ofhope, imagining explanations that are im-possible. They recall every incident of thelast few weeks in connection with theiridolised daughter who has vanished, leavingnot a word behind her. Some accident hashappened to her. She has been takensuddenl)- ill in the street and is in a hospital,perhaps, or in the house of some strangerwho has been a Good Samaritan. She isunconscious, and has no knowledge of theanxiety and pain, almost be\ond endurance,of the parents. The father has been e\er}where. All daylong he has gone to and fro to the houses otfriends, to police-stations, to hospitals, tothe houses of old school acquaintances of hischilds. No one has seen her. Last night atseven oclock she went out to make somelittle purchases at the shops. She was lixelyand lighthearted, and her little sister re-members
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