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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Chita: A Memory of Last Island by Lafcadio Hearn: other vessels had discharged their ghastly cargoes;--when the
bereaved of the land had assembled as hastily as they might for
the du y of identification;--when memories were strained almost
to madness in research of names, dates, incidents--for the
evocation of dead words, resurrection of vanished days,
recollection of dear promises,--then, in the confusion, it was
believed and declared that the little corpse found on the pelican
island was the daughter of the wearer of the wedding ring: Adele
La Brierre, nee Florane, wife of Dr. Julien La Brierre, of New
Orleans, who was numbered among the missing.
And they brought dead Adele back,--up shadowy river windings,
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