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The Runic Writing Exercises the Professor

           Onthefrontofthesecond,thetitle-page,henoticedasortofstainwhichlookedlikeaninkblot.Butinlookingatitverycloselyhethoughthecoulddistinguishsomehalf-effacedletters.Myuncleatoncefasteneduponthisasthecentreofinterest,andhelabouredatthatblot,untilbythehelpofhismicroscopeheendedbymakingoutthefollowingRuniccharacterswhichhereadwithoutdifficulty.

           "ArneSaknussemm!"hecriedintriumph."WhythatisthenameofanotherIcelander,asavantofthesixteenthcentury,acelebratedalchemist!"

           Igazedatmyunclewithsatisfactoryadmiration.

           "Thosealchemists,"heresumed,"Avicenna,Bacon,Lully,Paracelsus,weretherealandonlysavantsoftheirtime.Theymadediscoveriesatwhichweareastonished.HasnotthisSaknussemmconcealedunderhiscryptogramsomesurprisinginvention?Itisso;itmustbeso!"

           TheProfessor’simaginationtookfireatthishypothesis.

           "Nodoubt,"Iventuredtoreply,"butwhatinterestwouldhehaveinthushidingsomarvellousadiscovery?"

           "Why?Why?HowcanItell?DidnotGalileodothesamebySaturn?Weshallsee.Iwillgetatthesecretofthisdocument,andIwillneithersleepnoreatuntilIhavefounditout."

           Mycommentonthiswasahalf-suppressed"Oh!"

           "Noryoueither,Axel,"headded.

           "Thedeuce!"saidItomyself;"thenitisluckyIhaveeatentwodinnersto-day!"

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