“Loruve?”
When he had deciphered this, and had answered in the affirmative, she handed to him another slip, on which this advice was written:—
| L | ||||
| “Prove | A | F | and ensure success.” | |
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What did it all mean?
A DOUBLE ACROSTIC
7.
Saint of Spain, whose daily word
Twenty years hath London heard!
Sweet days, elastic metal, motion sharp.
My halls once echoed to an Irish harp.
The “son of sorrow,” honourable of yore.
Dread goddess, loosing the loud dogs of war.
Time’s atom—total of eternities.
This name an insect bears, a patriot bore.
“So do, yet hear me,” said Themistocles.