I made a digest of it--analyzed it--studied it--compared it with other authentic facts in my possession--and came to the definite conclusion that I hold the clue to the whereabouts of that lost Book of Chronicles." "Let's see the photograph," Grim suggested.
"It has been impounded with other so-called 'enemy property' by your friends the British.

I suppose they thought the German General Staff might get hold of it and conquer the Suez Canal! But what good would the sight of it do?
You couldn't understand a word of it.

It convinced me, after months of study, that when the Ten Tribes were carried away into captivity by the Assyrians they sent their records secretly to Jerusalem.

Ever since the secession the Israelites and Jews had been jealous enemies.

But they were relatives after all, boasting a common ancestor, proud of the same history, more or less observing the same religion.
And Schechem was only about thirty miles from Jerusalem, which was considered an impregnable fortress until the Babylonians took it later on.