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But when they reachappear and stand out on these apparently unsullied pages as distinctly as though your words had been printed My letters to you will also, when you receive them, appear blank; but you will only have to press them for about ten minutes in this"--and he handed -book--"and they will be perfectly legible Cellini has these little writing ireat for us to aacity of Leo--in fact the journeys of that faithful ani"

"But," I said, as I took the pencil and book fro materials public property? They would be so useful"

"Why should I build up a fortune for some needy stationer?" he asked, with a half-ss They were known to the ancients, and many secret letters, laws, histories, and poems ritten with instruments such as these In an old library, destroyed oodly pile of apparently blank parchment Had I lived then and knohat I kno, I could have es declare their mystery"

"Has this also to do with electricity?" I asked

"Certainly--hat is called vegetable electricity There is not a plant or herb in existence, but has al leaves--do you doubt it?"

"Not I!" I answered quickly "I doubt nothing!"

Heliobas sht!" he said "Doubt is the destroyer of beauty--the poison in the sweet cup of existence--the curse which ht on the or everything lorious--the utrasp theyou can see, desire, or i called Human Reason, which is merely a name for whatever opinion we happen to adopt for the tie or despair--there is nothing infinite about it Guide yourself by the delicate Spiritual Instinct within you, which tells you that with God all things are possible, save that He cannot destroy Himself or lessen by one spark the fiery brilliancy of his ever-widening circle of productive Intelligence But --it would be mere waste of time"