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She took the parchments from the stack, one after the other.
"And then" -- she removed the last one -- "I see this."
They stared.
Nobody said anything.
The parchment was identical in size to the others in the stack, but instead of dense writing in Latin or Old French, this one had only two words, scrawled in plain English:
HELP ME
4/7/1357
"In case you're wondering," she said, "that's the Professor's handwriting."
Excerpted from Timeline by Michael Crichton. Copyright© 1999 by Michael Crichton. Excerpted by permission of Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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