Place it at a river’s Mouth
East or west or north or south.
Take some Leaves and put them whole
In some water in a Bowl.
I found this puzzle in a book
From which some mighty truths were took.”
She read again and yet again, the others watching her. With every reading she seemed to get further from the solution of the mystery, and she turned in despair to Angel.
“I can make nothing of it,” she cried helplessly, “nothing, nothing, nothing.”
“It is, with due respect to my late client, the veriest doggerel,” said the lawyer frankly, “and yet upon that the inheritance of the whole of his fortune depends.”
He had noticed that neither Connor nor Jimmy had read the slips he had handed to them.