The artificial fountains of the metropolis are, in like manner, fast vanishing.

The answer to this question is contained in the answer to the further question: What could have been the object of the personation? "What motive could this unknown person have had in appearing, announcing himself as John Bellingham, and forthwith vanishing?

" "In the billiard room?" "Do you mean to say," cry I, my factitious smile vanishing, and flashing out into honest, open passion, "that you mean to deny that you were there?" "Deny it!"

The change consists in their gradual vanishing from the conversation of the educated and refined.

He would let no one but Adelaide touch him, and he merely endured her; good and loving though she seemed to be, he felt that she was somehow responsible for the mysterious vanishing of his god while she had him shut away.

He might suspect this sudden vanishing had direct connection with the crime he was endeavouring to solve, but he possessed absolutely no proof, and, apparently, any further movement on his part was completely blocked.

There was a gloomy vanishing of all the combatants for Right and for Law.