"So," he said, "I wrote
four lines of old poetry on the paper with nitrate of silver, which
would be invisible until exposed to the light; and this would have
disclosed the astrologer's fraud, if he had tried to find out the
contents of the enclosed paper, by opening the cover, however
ingeniously. For, if he opened it and looked at the paper, he would have
seen that it was blank, resealed the cover, and declared that the paper
enveloped therein bore no writing whatever; or if he had, by design or
accident, exposed the paper to light, the writing would have become
black; and he would have produced a copy of it as if it were the result
of his own Vidya; but in either case and the writing remaining, his
deception would have been clear, and it would have been patent to all
that he did open the envelope. But in the present case, the result
proved conclusively that the cover was not opened at all."
--P. Sreeneevas Row
The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac
The division of the Zodiac into different signs dates from immemorial
antiquity.
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