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The trick here was one which would be seen through easily enough by a person of your intelligence (or, if I may say so without violating modesty, of my own), but which to the ordinary imbecile would have the persuasiveness of what is marvellous and incredible. He contrived various methods of undoing the seals, read the questions, answered them as seemed good, and then folded, sealed, and returned them, to the great

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astonishment of the recipients. And then it was, How could he possibly know what I gave him carefully secured under a seal that defies imitation, unless he were a true God, with a Gods omniscience?”

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