against Major Esterhazy is that he suddenly altered his handwriting after the memorandum was first published in facsimile by " Paris paper in Novem-last year. Tu support of this contention the Figaro quotes document No 4, but as it was written eleven months after the publication of the facsimile it is certainly no proof of a sudden alteration, It is true that some of the letters are not formed in the same way as in the 1894 specimen, but of course the change might have been ual one. To decide the oint it would be necessary to examine letters written by the Major immediately before and after the publication of the facsimile. If these letters presented the dissimil ies observable in Nos. 3 and 4, the circumstance would be highly 8 cious. The question naturally arises when ther Dreyfus would be
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