After that the Pretenderette would be entitled to _her_ chance.' 'If you're quite sure that the time here doesn't count at home,' said Philip, 'what is it, please, that we've got to do ?' 'The greatest intellects of our country have for many ages occupied themselves with the problem which you are now asked to solve,' said Mr.
Noah.

'Your late gaoler, Mr.Bacon-Shakespeare, has written no less than twenty-seven volumes, all in cypher, on this very subject.

But as he has forgotten what cypher he used, and no one else ever knew it, his volumes are of but little use to us.' 'I see,' said Philip.

And again he didn't.
Mr.Noah rose to his full height, and when he stood up the children looked very small beside him.
'Now,' he said, 'I will tell you what it is that you must do.

I should like to decree that your second labour should be the tidying up of this room--_all_ these papers are prophecies relating to the Deliverer--but it is one of our laws that the judge must not use any public matter for his own personal benefit.