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Jens Sandahl and Robert Whaples easily identified the author as Edgar  
Allan Poe and the story as "The Purloined Letter". While in the riddle  
#1 it was Sherlock Holmes reading from The Times, here it is another  
great detective speaking: Auguste Dupin. Both Dupin and his creator  
believed that chemistry is the natural science closest to the science of  
morals. This reminds me of Irving Fisher who was impressed by  
chemistry-economics analogies as well.   
 
Yuri Tulupenko 
 
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