Transcription: I declare, cried my uncle, it is runic and contains some wonderful secret which I must get at at any price. I will substitute, he said, a letter of our alphabet for that of the runic. We will see what that will produce. The result appeared very strange to me. My uncle examined the words with a rapt and deep attention. I should like to know what it means, he said, The manuscript volume and the smaller document are written in different hands, he said. The cryptograph is of much later date than the book. To me it appears probable that this sentence was written by some owner of the book. Professor ...
