Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-09-09

game; and her request to call on Pro
fessor Griffin, the expert in Oriental
literature, who occupied chair In Co.
lumbia college, and lived a mile or
more back from the Greenwich sta
ton, was welcome call to action
Very briefly she explained that she
had seen the professor that morning,
and had laid before him the original
letter and my copies of the others,
and that he had kindly promised TO
make careful ctudy OF them and ac-
quaint her with the result later in the
day. She thought it better, however,
that l should call upon him for his
conclusions, she said, as they would
probably be verbal, and she doubted
her own ability TO convey them to me
with entire accuracy. OF course she
lad told him nothing as to the circum-
stances surrounding the letters. AS
hey bore no dates, and were unad-
dressed, she had him to infer that
they were autographs curiosities be-
longing to her uncle, in which we
were all three interested.
| had met Professor Griffin on sew
aral occasions Once or twice he had
contributed articles TO The Week, and
while We We're scarcely intimate, we
were on terms of friendly acquaint-
anceship. He was an oldish, white
haired gentleman, Of rather tho ascot
ic type. with long. somewhat peaked
face, and light, Watery blue eyes,
which seemed to bulge behind the
strong lenses of his gold-bowed spec
tacles.
He received me in his study, a spa
eious, bool1-lined room on the second
floor of his old Colonial stone house
Il have been deeply interested, Mr.
CLYDE" he began, "in the autographs
md copies which Miss Grayson
brought to me They are unique speci-
mems of English composition, III that
the Oriental influence is so clearly
demonstrated throughout. Do you,
oy any chance, know where Mr.. Cam
eron obtained them?"
was hardly prepared for this ques-
ton, but l answered as promptly as
possible that they had recently come
into my friends possession, I be-
il'ed, but from just what source l
had not learned
The three sheets lay before him on
The writing shelf of his old-fashioned
mahogany secretary; and now he took
up one of the copies, holding it at
some distance from his eyes, as
though his glasses, thick as they We're
were not as powerful as his sight re
CURED.
THE three writings" he went on,
IL the tone of a classroom lecturer,
evidently form series, OF which, !
take it, this is the first
The one which says, Take warning
Of what shall happen on the seventh
day? ?" l queried.
Yes That is the first. The other
of the copies, in which occurs the
phrase once more is, of course, tho
second. And the original autograph
is the last"
Exactly" agreed. 1t seemed to
me that al this WAS very obvious, but
In courtesy I could not say so.
"All three" he continued sagely,
begin. as you must have observed,
with the same sentence. That which
you have wrought shall in turn be
wrought upon YOU That is a quota.
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