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Updated: May 5, 2025
My answer was intercepted by the sound of an electric bell or miniature gong, and a slip of tafroo fell upon the desk. The first words were in that vocal character which I had mastered, and came from Esmo. "Hysterical folly," he had said. "Mountain air might be fatal; and clear nights are dangerously cold for more than yourselves." "What does he mean?"
The visitor stood by a table on which had been placed the usual pencils or styles, and a sort of open portfolio, on one side of which was laid a small strip of the golden tafroo, inscribed with crimson characters of unusual size, leaving several blanks here and there. Most of these he filled up, and then, leading forward his daughter, Esmo signed to me also to approach the table.
This process can be repeated almost ad libitum; and it is equally easy to take at any time a fresh copy upon tafroo, which serves again for the reproduction of any number of difra copies. The book, for the convenience of this mode of reproduction, consists of a single sheet, generally from four to eight inches in breadth and of any length required.
I had just left Eivé's prison one morning when Eveena, who was habitually entrusted with the charge of these communications, put into my hands two slips of tafroo. The one had been given her by an ambâ, and came from Davilo's substitute on the estate. It said simply: "You and you alone were recognised among the rescuers of your friend.
Copies, whether of the phonographic or stylographic writing, are multiplied with extreme facility and perfection. The original, once inscribed in either manner upon the above-mentioned tafroo or gold-leaf, is placed upon a sheet of a species of linen, smoother than paper, called difra.
One thing more. The slips of tafroo with which you furnished me have been under the eyes of which you have heard. I was less impressed by this declaration than probably would have been any other member of the Order.
"May I," she suggested, "write your message for you, and put your purport in words that will be understood by my father alone?" "Do," I rejoined, "but do it in my name, and I will sign it." Under her direction, I took the stylus or pencil and the slip of tafroo she offered me, and wrote my name at the head.
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