Turning again to Hamlet, there is circumstantial evidence sufficient to show that the remarkable pointing to the word “Donnelly” could not be a mere coincidence. For example, in the same column with “don,” and but a few lines further on, occurs the expression “most violent author.” Is this an accident? Again, the word “politician,” according to the lexicons, occurs not over half a dozen times in all the plays. It is found twice in these six pages, in intimate connection with the word “Donnelly;” once in the far-fetched expression “life-rendering politician,” which means nothing. Still again, popular nomenclature has designated Mr. Donnelly as “The Sage of Nininger.” By that title he is, perhaps, better known throughout the Northwest than by his legal name. Now the word “sage” is another used less than half a dozen times in all the plays. It is found here; and found in the expression, “sage requiem,” which has so puzzled the commentators that “sage” is omitted in many of the common editions. To put it here, where the cipher required it, the writer of this play was compelled to make his expression meaningless. It is simply impossible that this combination of unusual words, “Donnelly,” “politician,” “author,” “sage,” all jostling each other in passages introduced without relevance to the play, should be an accident. It is deep design. Bacon, looking forward with more than mortal prescience, saw the day when his deliverer would come. And in anticipation of this event, he put into his greatest play, by means of the cipher, the prophecy that is now fulfilled. By one act of transcendent genius, he made it impossible for anyone to reject the revelation which his interpreter should make in the fulness of time.