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He is stronger to-day; we talked briefly of the apparitions in the cellar; agreed they were neither hallucinations or of an ectoplasmic origin, but real. Does Mr. Beal suspect as I do, that they have gone? Perhaps; the noises are still; yet all is ominous yet, o’ercast with a dark pall. It seems we must wait in the deceptive Eye of the Hurricane…..321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCfbbg7RFII
Have found a pocket of papers in an upstairs bedroom, lying in the bottom drawer of an old roll-top desk. Some correspondence & receipted bills lead me to believe the room was Anthony Beal’s. Yet the most interesting document is a few jottings on the back of an advertisement for gentlemen’s beaver hats. At the top is writ:
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Blessed are the meek.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZQlIsl1soS
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Below, the following apparent nonsense is writ:
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elmsoerare shamded
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I believe ‘tis the key of the locked and coded book in the library. The cipher above is surely a rustic one used in the War for Independence known as the Fence-Rail. When one removes the illogical from the second bit of scribble, the following is obtained:
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besdrteek
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Read up and down rather than across, the result is the original quotation from the Beatitudes.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiCRPLIBR71
Before I dare show this book to Mr. Beal, I must be sure of the book’s contents…..321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNED7VFf8K5
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