If my argument so far had been trustworthy, I should find, in these other specimens, a double [-][-] standing for the double e so frequently found in English.
Did I find such?
No.

Another shock to my theory.
Should I, then, give it up?
Not while another means of verification remained.

The word the should occur more than once in a collection of words as long as the one before me.

If U is really e, I should find it at the end of the supposed thes.

Do I so find it?
There are several words scattered through the whole, of only three letters.