The Man Who Went Back

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Warwick Deeping. The Man Who Went Back

The Man Who Went Back

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Warwick Deeping

Published by Good Press, 2021

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“Wait. They are waiting for news down yonder. I came up here to watch.”

She turned away and mounting the steps of the podium passed along the little portico and disappeared into the temple. I knelt there watching, wondering whether this dream, or whatever it was, would end. Would the temple vanish, and she with it. I was conscious of a fierce desire to see her again. I knelt and wondered whether the little, pillared building would vanish like a picture from a screen, and the thorn tree take its place, but the white pillars and the red roof remained solid and real against the green of the woods and the hills. I heard a voice, her voice. She seemed to be praying aloud.

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