She must be. Im not sure just how. What else do you know? Trenton asked. No, sir. I havent seen them. Gradually memory returned. So why did he have doubts, he wondered? There wasnt a way in the world I could trace down the girl and try to break her story, either. If it wasn’t a frame that would be a cinch; but I had absolutely no way of knowing who he’d pick out to work with on the thing. It probably was some little bum that hung around Rucci’s joint, but that didn’t help; in the little time I’d worked there I’d seen a dozen that would go for larceny like that. I have to tell you, first, that he loved to play board games with us. Along around five-thirty or six each evening, he would come out of his studio (he called even the tiny back room astudio), stinking of cigar smoke and turpentine, and even before my mother called us to dinner he would say, “Hey, kiddos, some Monopoly after supper? (He still called dinner “supper, the way Grandma Kate always did.) Or Risk, which was another game. Or Clue. My mother would always tell us to finish our homework first, but every night, nonetheless, we would sit down to play a board game for an hour or so after dinner. I would be happy (young Harley goes on, undeterred) to accompany you ladies to this bar Im telling you about, where perhaps you might enjoy dancing a little instead of singing and playing your l’il ole hearts out, like you’re doing here, though it’s a juke box there, I must admit. I’m a fair dancer, and I would be happy to alternate as your partner, so to speak, until such time as the three of us might become better acquainted. I’ve been noticing how well you two ladies play together, and I know this sort of intimacy, if you take my meaning, comes with practice— I said:Ill tell neither of them, though I can’t see the harm in telling Free. He’s been around. And I might have to get in touch with him. If such were the fact, it would be comparatively an easy task to investigate the laws of nature. But the supposition does not hold in either of its parts. In the first place, it is not true that the same phenomenon is always produced by the same cause: the effecta may sometimes arise from A, sometimes from B. And, secondly, the effects of different causes are often not dissimilar, but homogeneous, and marked out by no assignable boundaries from one another: A and B may produce not a and b, but different portions of an effect a. The obscurity and difficulty of the investigation of the laws of phenomena is singularly increased by the necessity of adverting to these two circumstances: Intermixture of Effects, and Plurality of Causes. To the latter, being the simpler of the two considerations, we shall first direct our attention. But why on earth did you do that? Hello, Sis. 290 Well take charge of these men. I want to talk with them. I thought she was your closest friend. Hazel wagged a finger at her and insisted:You are too a bum. I guess I know a bum when I see a bum. Pushing with every ounce of strength he had, he felt the stag finally budge, a few inches. Some menare mortal—Particular. A bird or a stone, a man, or a wise man, means simply, an object having such and such attributes. The real meaning of the word man, is those attributes, and not Smith, Brown, and the remainder of the individuals. The wordmortal, in like manner connotes a certain attribute or attributes; and when we say, All men are mortal, the meaning of the proposition is, that all beings which possess the one set of attributes, possess also the other. If, in our experience, the attributes connoted by man are always accompanied by the attribute connoted by mortal, it will follow as a consequence, that the class man will be wholly included in the class mortal, and that mortal will be a name of all things of which man is a name: but why? Those objects are brought under the name, by possessing the attributes connoted by it: but their possession of the attributes is the real condition on which the truth of the proposition depends; not their being called by the name. Connotative names do not precede, but follow,the attributes which they connote. If one attribute happens to be always found in conjunction with another attribute, the concrete names which answer to those attributes will of course be predicable of the same subjects, and may be said, in Hobbess language (in the propriety of which on this occasion I fully concur), to be two names for the same things. But the possibility of a concurrent application of the two names, is a mere consequence of the conjunction between the two attributes, and was, in most cases, never thought of when the names were introduced and their signification fixed. That the diamond is combustible, was a proposition certainly not dreamed of when the words Diamond and Combustible first received their meaning; and could not have been discovered by the most ingenious and refined analysis of the signification of those words. It was found out by a very different process, namely, by exerting the senses, and learning from them, that the attribute of combustibility existed in the diamonds upon which the experiment was tried; the number or character of the experiments being such, that what was true of those individuals might be concluded to be true of all substances called by the name, that is, of all substances possessing the attributes which the name connotes. The assertion, therefore, when analyzed, is, that wherever we find certain attributes, there will be found a certain other attribute: which is not a question of the signification of names, but of laws of nature; the order existing among phenomena..