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It may be that we shall strike at the psychological moment . `` Yours , E. G. '' The august Professor then wrote two other letters ; one to a firm of bankers and one to his publishers . At last , getting into an old dressing gown and some very rusty slippers , lighting a long , black cigar and drawing his student 's lamp nearer , he took an immense roll of manuscript from a drawer and fell to work . It was three o'clock before he turned in for three hours of troubled sleep . One morning every girl at Queen 's discovered by her plate at the breakfast table a strange rice paper document some twelve inches in length and very narrow as to width , rolled compactly on a small stick . `` What 's this ? '' demanded Margaret Wakefield , unrolling her scroll and regarding it with the legal eye of an attorney perusing documentary evidence .