| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: safe."
"Confound you!" Kent leaned forward in his wrath and shook his fist
at the detective. "What right had you to do such a thing?"
"The search warrant covered it," explained Ferguson. "I could look
through your safe, Mr. Kent, because Rochester was your senior
partner and you shared the office together; I was within the law."
"Perhaps you were," Kent controlled his anger with an effort. "But
I had told you I did not know Rochester's whereabouts before I
showed you the Cleveland telegram, which you claim is bogus."
"It's bogus, all right," insisted the detective. "I thought it just
possible I might find some paper which would give me a clew to
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: He placed his cap on his head and went out.
From that instant of leaving Mrs. Yeobright's door,
the reddleman was seen no more in or about Egdon Heath
for a space of many months. He vanished entirely.
The nook among the brambles where his van had been
standing was as vacant as ever the next morning,
and scarcely a sign remained to show that he had been there,
excepting a few straws, and a little redness on the turf,
which was washed away by the next storm of rain.
The report that Diggory had brought of the wedding,
correct as far as it went, was deficient in one
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