| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: come flashing upon her. "An' if it is, after last night, an' he
finds youse an' me together, dere'll be -"
"My dear lady," interposed the Adventurer calmly, "if there were
the remotest possibility that it could be Rough Rorke, I would not
be here."
"Wot do youse mean?" She had unconsciously towered her voice.
The Adventurer shrugged his shoulders whimsically. He had laid the
piece of paper on his knee, and, with a small gold pencil which he
had taken from his pocket, was writing something upon it.
"The fact that I can assure you that, whoever else it may be, the
person outside there cannot be Rough Rorke, is simply a proof that,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Philosophy 4 by Owen Wister: feeling came fully upon them, as they read over the names of the
philosophers. Thursday was the day of the examination. "Who's
Anaxagoras?" Billy had inquired of Bertie. "I'll tell you," said
Bertie, "if you'll tell me who Epicharmos of Kos was." And upon this
they embraced with helpless laughter. Then they reckoned up the hours
left for them to learn Epicharmos of Kos in,--between Monday noon and
Thursday morning at nine,--and their quailing chill increased. A tutor
must be called in at once. So the grasshoppers, having money, sought
out and quickly purchased the ant.
Closeted with Oscar and his notes, they had, as Bertie put it, salted
down the early Greek bucks by seven on Monday evening. By the same
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: "I have," said Cleggett. "I have read Poe's detective tales and
Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories."
"Ah! Sherlock Holmes!" The three detectives looked at each
other with glances in which were mingled both bitterness and
amusement; the look seemed to dispose of Sherlock Holmes. Once
again Cleggett had a fleeting thought that Wilton Barnstable
might possibly be a vain man.
"Sherlock Holmes," said Barnstable, "never existed. His
marvelous feats are not possible in real life, Cleggett. But the
deductive method which he pretended to use--mind you, I say
PRETENDED, Cleggett!--is, nevertheless, sound."
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