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He knew, again, the return of a fugitive memory he could not seize.... He kept a note of the dates, all of them subsequent to the day he read his brother's fate in the official Roll of Honour: "Believed missing; now killed." HE KNEW AGAIN THE RETURN OF A FUGITIVE MEMORY HE COULD NOT SEIZE HE KEPT A NOTE OF THE DATES ALL OF THEM SUBSEQUENT TO THE DAY HE READ HIS BROTHER'S FATE IN THE OFFICIAL ROLE OF HONOR BELIEVED MISSING NOW KILLED
business as a manifestation, and leave it at that. He did so, and his mind was eased. This was his attitude: “The supernatural may exist. Why not? We cannot know. But we can watch.” His eyes and brain, at any rate, were proved in good condition. He watched. No change of focus, no magnifying or[235] diminishing, came again. For some weeks he noticed nothing unusual of any kind, except that his mind often filled now with Eastern pictures. Their sudden irruption caught his attention, but no more than that; they were sometimes blurred and sometimes vivid; he had never been in the East; he attributed them to his constant thinking of his brother, missing in Mesopotamia these six months. Photographs in magazines and newspapers explained the rest. Yet the persistence of the pictures puzzled him: tents beneath hot cloudless skies, palms, a stretch of desert, dry watercourses, camels, a mosque, a minaret—typical snatches of this kind flashed into his mind with a sense of faint familiarity often. AD ABOUT IT HE COULD ACCEPT THIS ODD BUSINESS AS A MANIFESTATION AND LEAVE IT AT THAT HE DID SO AND HIS MIND WAS EASED THIS WAS HIS ATTITUDE THE SUPERNATURAL MAY EXIST WHY NOT WE CANNOT KNOW BUT WE CAN'T WATCH HIS EYES AND BRAIN AT ANY RATE WERE PROVED IN GOOD CONDITION HE WATCHED NO CHANGE OF FOCUS NO MAGNIFYING OR DIMINISHING CAME AGAIN FOR SOME WEEKS HE NOTICED NOTHING UNUSUAL OF ANY KIND EXCEPT THAT HIS MIND OFTEN FILLED NOW WITH EASTERN PICTURES THEIR SUDDEN IRRUPTION CAUGHT HIS ATTENTION BUT NO MORE THAN THAT THEY WERE SOMETIMES BLURRED AND SOMETIMES VIVID HE HAD NEVER BEEN IN THE EAST HE ATTRIBUTED THEM TO HIS CONSTANT THINKING OF HIS BROTHER MISSING IN MESOPOTAMIA THESE SIX MONTHS PHOTOGRAPHS AND MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS EXPLAINED THE REST YET THE PERSISTENCE OF THE PICTURES PUZZLED HIM TENTS BENEATH HOT CLOUDLESS SKIES PALMS A STRETCH OF DESERT DRY WATERCOURSES CAMELS A MOSQUE A MINARET TYPICAL SNATCHES OF THIS KIND FLASHED INTO HIS MIND WITH A SENSE OF FAINT FAMILIARITY OFTEN
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