Excerpt: ... after." "Can't you reproduce a copy of it from memory?" someone asked; "and insert it in its proper place among the pages you hold there?" "The paper would not be the same. That would lead to questions and the truth would come out. As the chief value of the process contained in that 137 formula lies in its secrecy, no explanation I could give would relieve me from the suspicions which an acknowledgment of the existence of a third copy, however well hidden, would entail. I should lose my great opportunity." Mr. Cornell's state of mind can be imagined. In an access of mingled regret and despair, he cast a glance at Violet, who, with a nod of understanding, left the little room in which they still stood, and approached Mr. Van Broecklyn. Lifting up her head,
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