Thus the appearance of new forms and the
disappearance of old forms, both natural and artificial, are bound together.
On a search-warrant being issued for the examination of his room, clothes, and so forth, it was discovered that he had destroyed all his papers, and rearranged all his possessions, on the very afternoon of the
disappearance. The watch found at the Weir was challenged by the jeweller as one he had wound and set for Edwin Drood, at twenty minutes past two on that same afternoon; and it had run down, before being cast into the water; and it was the jeweller's positive opinion that it had never been re-wound.
Inquiries being addressed to this gentleman (a physician of undoubted capacity and respectability), it turned out that he also had never seen Ferrari, having been summoned to the palace (as his memorandum book showed) at a date subsequent to the courier's
disappearance. The doctor described Lord Montbarry's malady as bronchitis.
'You asked me if I accounted for the
disappearance to myself,' Mrs Clennam sternly reminded him, 'not if I accounted for it to you.
"May I ask, in the meanwhile, whether you have yourself any theory to account for this young man's disappearance?"
"Tell me," I asked, as we rattled up Gray's Inn Road, "have you any suspicion yet as to the cause of the disappearance. I don't think that among all our cases I have known one where the motives are more obscure.
Of course, I had at the outset no particular reason to connect these journeys with the disappearance of Godfrey Staunton, and was only inclined to investigate them on the general grounds that everything which concerns Dr.
Holmes was endeavouring to utter a few words of consolation and to explain the alarm which had been caused to his friends by his sudden disappearance when there was a step upon the stairs, and there was the heavy, stern, questioning face of Dr.
I have now given the true
disappearance of Philip Wickson, one-time oligarch, and, later, comrade in the Revolution.
The UN Resident Coordinator in Sri Lanka, Hanaa Singer, has said that the world body was encouraged by Sri Lanka's ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearance in 2016 and particularly by the establishment of the Office of Missing Persons in 2017.
The convention provides that 'enforced
disappearance' is considered to be the arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty by agents of the State or by persons or groups of persons acting with the authorisation, support or acquiescence of the State, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or by concealment of the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared person, which place such a person outside the protection of the law.
"The issue of enforced
disappearance is very prominent in Pakistan.