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A Strange Discovery by Charles Romyn Dake
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A Strange DISCOVERY

By

Charles Romyn Dake

(1889)







HOW WE FOUND DIRK PETERS




The FIRST Chapter


It was once my good fortune to assist in a discovery of some importance
to lovers of literature, and to searchers after the new and wonderful.
As nearly a quarter of a century has since elapsed, and as two others
shared in the discovery, it may seem to the reader strange that the
general public has been kept in ignorance of an event apparently so full
of interest. Yet this silence is quite explicable; for of the three
participants none has heretofore written for publication; and of my two
associates, one is a quiet, retiring man, the other is erratic and
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