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OUR excitement over the discovery was unbounded. Old Mr. Staffurth's announcement seemed hardly possible. His hand trembled as he held the paper whereon I had copied the precious document catalogued among the Oblata Rolls, while I, bending over him, stood eager but speechless.
"See! " he cried. "The cipher is cunningly reversed, in order to make it more complicated. The big threes written by the old Italian were drawn as a silent indication of the correct solution of this document. Besides, there is before and after the entry of the date of the document two threes, one at each end-meaning first the third letter, and secondly each three letters reversed."