Keeler was affectionately regardedby all who knew him, and he offered a sort of worship in return. Ward intendedstaying only a few days to deliver his lectures, but the whirl of theComstock caught him like a maelstrom, and he remained three weeks. In my opinion Emerson was not a soothing companion for a sick man, but Ramses and Bertie came by every day to report on the excavations, and Sennia and Evelyn read to him. Her eyes were fixed on her plate.
Someone else had come to meet us, though. We stood in silence outside the arched doorway of the monument. Emerson's excuse was audible only to me, at whom it was intentionally directed. I said no, they didn't.
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