The Forgotten Threshold
Before Arthur Middleton died he gave me this record among others in the belief that it would help to tell me
what he had always known in the silences, yet could never in life transmute into the friendly counters of
speech. During the last years of his all too brief experience of his friends, more than once he shyly sought to
tell what he knew, yet always silence claimed him, and nothing but the wonder of his eyes revealed the dream
that consumed his heart.
Before Arthur Middleton died he gave me this record among others in the belief that it would help to tell me
what he had always known in the silences, yet could never in life transmute into the friendly counters of
speech. During the last years of his all too brief experience of his friends, more than once he shyly sought to
tell what he knew, yet always silence claimed him, and nothing but the wonder of his eyes revealed the dream
that consumed his heart.