He sighed, gazing upward and into the distance.
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"Gazing upward and into the distance" suggests that Merle is looking towards heaven after mentioning his wife. But what else lies upward and in the distance? Aeronaut balloons! So he's just gazing out toward another place unreachable, or perhaps unknowable, to most of us. Merle's wife is simply out of reach. At least to him! "Gazing upward and into the distance" suggests that she is not out of reach to the Chums of Chance. Will they locate her later?! Only people who have read this book know for sure and I'm not one of them.
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