? ? ? ? " 'Whose was it?'
? ? ? ? " 'His who is gone.'
? ? ? ? " 'Who shall have it?'
? ? ? ? " 'He who will come.'
? ? ? ? " 'Where was the sun?'
? ? ? ? " 'Over the oak.'
? ? ? ? " 'Where was the shadow?'
? ? ? ? " 'Under the elm.'
? ? ? ? " 'How was it stepped?'
? ? ? ? " 'North by ten and by ten, east by five and by five, south by two and by two, west by one and by one, and so under.'
? ? ? ? " 'What shall we give for it?'
? ? ? ? " 'All that is ours.'
? ? ? ? " 'Why should we give it?'
? ? ? ? " 'For the sake of the trust.'
? ? ? ? " 'The original has no date, but is in the spelling of the middle of the seventeenth century,' remarked Musgrave. 'I am afraid, however, that it can be of little help to you in solving this mystery.'
? ? ? ? " 'At least,' said I, 'it gives us another mystery, and one which is even more interesting than the first. It may be that the solution of the one may prove to be the solution of the other.
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