CHAPTER VIII. 72

What is a cryptogram? asked the Pupil. It is a cipher, replied the Sage. What is a cipher? persisted the Pupil. It is naught, answered the Sage. Is there a cryptogram in this book? asked the Pupil. If there be, a Sage alone will find it. It should explain aught that may seem irrelevant.—_The Wisdom of Shacabac._

There are times when it is inexpedient, if not actually immoral, to kill the bediamonded clerk of a caravansary.—_Manco Capac._