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This intrusion of the first Romilly 's prototype into his thought again was a factor that for the moment brought his inquiry into the nature of his problem to a termination ; the mere thought of Elsie was fatal to anything abstract . There was a full moon , and a lozenge of moonlight , almost peacock-blue by contrast with his candle-frame , lay on the floor . The fire settled , letting down the black and charred papers ; a flower fell from a bowl , and lay indistinct upon the floor ; all was still ; and then a stray draught moved through the old house , passing before Oleron 's face . Two months before , the words " a haunted house , " applied to his lovely bemusing dwelling , would have chilled his marrow ; now , his scale of sensation becoming depressed , he could ask " Haunted by what ? For the handwriting of the two letters that Oleron , stealing noiselessly one June day into his kitchen to rid his sitting-room of an armful of fetid and decaying flowers , had seen on the floor within his door , had had no more meaning for him than if it had belonged to some dim and far-away dream . The other inspector had been through Oleron 's study and had found nothing , and was now in the kitchen , kicking aside an ankle-deep mass of vegetable refuse that cumbered the floor . The purpose of the assignment is twofold : you should use the writing as an exercise in articulating your thoughts and queries about some particular aspect of what we have read , and you should also conceive of your post as part of an ongoing dialogue : respond to other posts , raise questions , debate . You should use the assignment as an exercise in framing and expressing your thoughts and queries about some particular aspect of what we have read , and you should also conceive of your post as part of an ongoing dialogue : respond to other posts , raise questions , add context , debate . The linkage between local and globe is more immediate now .