Chapter

 1 II   |     young man, and admire these letters, the invention of the Scandinavian
 2 II   |    pronounced:~“These are Runic letters; they are exactly like those
 3 II   |        is their meaning?”~Runic letters appearing to my mind to
 4 III  |     cipher,” he said, “in which letters are purposely thrown in
 5 III  |     book wrote these mysterious letters. But who was that possessor?
 6 III  |   distinguish some half-effaced letters. My uncle at once fastened
 7 III  |        a hundred and thirty-two letters, viz., seventy-seven consonants
 8 III  |      one hundred and thirty-two letters in apparent disorder. There
 9 III  |         the succession of these letters. It appears to me a certainty
10 III  |       one’s head to confuse the letters of a sentence would be to
11 III  |        instead of arranging the letters in the usual way, one after
12 III  |        coming to the end; these letters named, one at a time, had
13 IV   |  incomprehensible succession of letters I had written down; and
14 IV   |           I sought to group the letters so as to form words. Quite
15 IV   |         fifteenth and sixteenth letters made the English word ‘ice’;
16 IV   |      its hundred and thirty-two letters seemed to flutter and fly
17 IV   |       to the arrangement of the letters; he was right as to the
18 V    | succeeded in setting down these letters in every possible relative
19 V    |         I knew also that twenty letters alone could form two quintillions,
20 V    |        a hundred and thirty-two letters in this sentence, and these
21 V    |    these hundred and thirty-two letters would give a number of different
22 IX   |    friend M. Thomsen brought us letters of introduction to Count
23 IX   |        in. He delivered him his letters from Copenhagen, and then
24 XXXIX|  appeared two mysterious graven letters, half eaten away by time.
25 XL   |       at the sight of these two letters, engraved on this spot three
26 XL   |       iron point with which the letters had been engraved. I could