33/47 I think he had some kind of vague idea that they might contain secret and invisible writing. They were all sheets of note-paper, of the same size, folded in the same way--namely, doubled as if for a square envelope. On holding one to the light, he read the water-mark: HIEROGLYPHICA A Vegetable Vellum. & Co. He showed the thing to the Hindoo, who did not understand what it meant. |