"Mackenzie seems to suspect some connection between Leithcourt's sudden disappearance and that mysterious affair.

"Naturally, before this awful discovery we had been much exercised by his mysterious disappearance and failure to return to the hotel.

That is to say, that the total disappearance of an individual for seven years constitutes presumptive evidence that the said individual is dead; and the presumption can be set aside only by the production of evidence that he was alive at some time within that period of seven years.

No matter how great the invitation to flight was offered by an open door and the temporary disappearance of the guard.

It was also marked by the gradual disappearance of the great lights in literature.

The Mantuans, already disorganised by the unaccountable disappearance of the Executive, were entirely irresolute what to do.

What was the cause of her inexplicable disappearance into the gloomy forest while we had slept? I returned to the hotel where I had stayed on my arrival, a comfortable place called the Phoenix, and lunched there alone.

It is gratifying to note that the rapid disappearance of the mountain sheep has made some impression on legislators in certain States where it is native.

Let us take the first casethat of voluntary disappearance.

In the first place, there was Maria's escape,which the younger girls were accustomed to talk of as having been 'almost miraculous;' and then there was Dick's absolute disappearance.

My cries and screams and subsequent disappearance caused a great commotion, and long search was made for my body; but of course in vain, for I had dived under, and come to the surface unobserved among the thick bushes at the place which had been agreed upon.

With true Oriental fatalism, the Turk has always regarded his ultimate disappearance from Europe as a certainty; the superstition which led the inhabitants of Stamboul to prefer burial across the straits in Asia has its parallel in the alarm aroused in the bazaars by the Young Turks' decision to exterminate the pariah dogs which have for centuries supplied the place of scavengers in the streets of the capital.

The news of Piers' abrupt disappearance on the previous night had spread.

"Yeshere;conducted secretly for years by a group of Brothers before unexplained disappearances in the neighbourhood led to its discovery.

In 1882 the same observer witnessed the steady disappearance of 1,600,000 square miles of the southern snow-cap, an area nearly one-third of that hemisphere of the planet.

" It was on the tip of my tongue to explain to that dark-eyed, handsome girl the circumstances in which I had met her lover on the sunny Mediterranean shore, yet prudence forbade me to refer to the matter, and I at once gladly accepted her invitation to investigate the curious disappearance of the body of poor Olinto's fellow-victim.

He had done so and now unhappily remembered a dozen neglected people who must wonder at his extraordinary disappearance.

Mr. and Mrs. Saunders, thankful that something had happened to divert attention from their own conspicuous plight, were discoursing freely in the centre of a group composed of the four Englishmen from the bank, all of whom had deserted their posts of duty to hear the details of the amazing disappearance.

he repeated, with a stamp; for a knock at the hall-door made her instantaneous disappearance indispensable.

"It is altogether a most mysterious affair," he observed sagely, being free, now that his late guest's perplexing disappearance was accounted for, even in that tragic fashion, to regard the business and to moralize over it without much personal feeling in the matter.

"The disappearance of James Rutlidge, prominent as he was, will be heralded from one end of the world to the other.

He had determined, in case his father left that office with Neuman, on one of those significant disappearances, to slip into the hotel at the side entrance and go up-stairs to listen at the door of the room with the closely drawn blind.

For Lanyard had a copy of the same sheet, and knew that Eve had loyally kept her promise; a brief despatch from Millau told of the simultaneous disappearance of one André Duchemin and the jewels of Madame de Montalais, and added that the police were already active in the case.

He could see himself disembarking there that last time, sick, without will-power, overwhelmed by the tragic disappearance of his son.

A tragical disappearance.