Page:James - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary .djvu/264

Rh the more exact localizing of them had been a puzzle. They represented—will you be surprised to hear it?—,, , and each of them held a book or scroll, inscribed with a sentence from his writings. These, as a matter of course, the antiquary had noted, and had been struck by the curious way in which they differed from any text of the Vulgate that he had been able to examine. Thus the scroll in Job's hand was inscribed: 'Auro est locus in quo absconditur' (for 'conflatur') ; on the book of John was: 'Habent in vestimentis suis scripturam quam nemo novit' (for 'in vestimento scriptum,' the following words being taken from another verse); and Zacharias had: 'Super lapidem unum septem oculi sunt' (which alone of the three presents an unaltered text).

A sad perplexity it had been to our