Did you ever see anything like it before?
Is it paper ?" "No," said Melick; "it is evidently some vegetable substance.

No doubt the writer has had it prepared for this very purpose, so as to make it look natural." "Do you know what is is ?" asked the doctor.
"No." "Then I'll tell you; it's papyrus." "Papyrus ?" "Yes, actual papyrus.

You can find but little of that in existence at the present day.

It is only to be found here and there in museums.
I know it perfectly well, however, and saw what it was at the first glance.

Now, I hold that a sensation novelist would never have thought of papyrus.