I ask you because I admit that the solutions went beyond the range of my mathematics." "Highness," replied the Egyptian, speaking slowly and almost reverently, "he did.

There is not, I think, another man on earth now who could have done so; but for those who had eyes to see there could be no doubt, and you will find that, though he has many rivals and will have countless critics, not one will be able either to explain his solutions or find a flaw in them." "You did a few things that I should not have thought possible the other day, which you claimed to be really miracles.

Now, if they were, I suppose you can explain Professor Marmion's ?" "There are no miracles, Highness: only the results of higher knowledge than that which they who see them possess.

That is why what I did seemed like miracles to those who watched.

But this Franklin Marmion, as he is called in this life, has attained to a higher knowledge than mine, wherefore I am able only to understand imperfectly, but not myself to do, that which he does.