They only speak once on the telephone, about work, but never meet again. This is too much for the woman and after her curt “Thanks”, they part.Could the elephant just shrunk away to nothing? He thought he saw the elephant getting smaller. He had been spying on the elephant house the night before the disappearance. He talks to her, for the first time, of the elephant. He is attracted to her and they move on to a bar for a further drink. Some time later the narrator meets a woman at an after-work function. The authorities can’t find either the elephant or its keeper and slowly public interest in the whole affair wanes.He is even the last person to have seen elephant and keeper. He has kept scrap-books of press cuttings and photographs. The narrator has followed the elephant story from the very start. More information is added on each telling. Then the narrator retells the tale and reveals, by flash backs, his personal interest in the elephant and it’s keeper.The elephant and keeper were seen the night before but in the morning only the elephant’s restraining chain, still locked, is left. The elephant at his local zoo has vanished along with the keeper.The plot of ”The Elephant Vanishes” is exactly what the title suggests.
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