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Updated: April 30, 2025
There was that big jewel job in Piccadilly, Taplin and Horne's; I don't mind telling you that we've not got the ghost of a clue. Then there's this anarchist affair. We're all in the dark there, too." "But what about the cipher?" asked Thorndyke. "Oh, hang the cipher!" exclaimed the detective irritably. "This Professor Poppelbaum may be a very learned man, but he doesn't help us much.
"Professor Poppelbaum sent it back with the solution. You can have a look at it, though I can't leave it with you without special authority." He drew the document from his pocket-book and handed it to Thorndyke, who took it over to the window and scrutinized it closely.
The visitor, whom I admitted, was a rather haggard and dishevelled elderly gentleman, who, as he entered, peered inquisitively through his concave spectacles from one of us to the other. "Allow me to introduce myself, gentlemen," said he. "I am Professor Poppelbaum." Thorndyke bowed and offered a chair.
James calls it, has set Scotland Yard in a mighty ferment." "Naturally. What have they done in the matter?" "They adopted my suggestion, after all, finding that they could make nothing of it themselves, and took it to the British Museum. The Museum people referred them to Professor Poppelbaum, the great palæographer, to whom they accordingly submitted it." "Did he express any opinion about it?"
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