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Updated: May 21, 2025
Pinned to the board with an old pen-nib was a half-sheet of scribbling-paper, and inscribed thereon, in what was evidently a disguised handwriting, were some verses, which were seen at once to refer to the previous afternoon's defeat. They were as follows: COLLEGE V. TOWN. Air, "Bonnie Dundee."
It had been sacrosanct; not a thing had been disturbed; there was the iron safe empty, but yet a grim receptacle of abominable secrets; the quill pen, its point stained with idle ink, lay on the office writing-table. And the blotting-pad was still there under a clump of dusty, unused scribbling-paper.
Mallard, in whose heart a sick weariness conflicted with his will and his desire, went on in a dogged way. "I want to work here for a time." Work! The syllable was like lead upon his tongue, and the thought a desolation in his mind. "Write to your sister; get her to send your belongings from Casa Rolandi, together with a ream of scribbling-paper.
They spread it open upon the table, and found that they could make nothing of it, as it appeared to be a mass of figures, and nothing else. "I wonder what on earth this can be," said Roger. "It seems to be nothing but a lot of figures put down anyhow. I expect it is merely a sheet of scribbling-paper, upon which some rough calculations have been worked.
She had a basket on her arm, and, when she had found for herself a mossy seat amid the roots of a great oak, she unpacked it. It contained a mass of written pages, some fresh scribbling-paper, ink and pens, and a small portfolio. When they were all lying on the moss beside her, Kitty turned over the sheets with a loving hand, reading here and there. "It is good!" she said to herself.
"Oh!" cried Jack Vance; "I see it now." "Of course, it was as plain as print. I put the two alphabets side by side, one the right way and the other upside down, and I read the cipher in two minutes, and here's what you might call the translation." As he spoke he held out a scrap of scribbling-paper. Jack Vance took it, and read as follows: "Meet in the 'gym' when the fellows pass on to supper.
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