A Late Mystery

In Lloyd C. Douglas’ 1929 novel Magnificent Obsession, a doctor dies of a heart attack, leaving behind a journal written in cipher. The first page is shown here. Can you read it?

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It’s a rail fence cipher. To see it explained, search the text of the book for the sentence “Then a fresh idea occurred to him.” (To understand its import, you can read the full text or just the novel’s Wikipedia page, especially the section “Dr. Hudson’s Secret Journal.”)

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