----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- 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 ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]