Truth About the Split — Page 307
307 address. The question naturally arises as to how, in the absence of an address, were the people to communicate with the author? It is therefore probable that the author had at first put down his name and address, but had subsequently considered it prudent to suppress the information. But, since the sentence asking people to correspond with the author had not been deleted from the body of the tract, it is probable that the idea of suppressing his name and address occurred to the author after the tract had been handed to the press. It was perhaps the fear of delay, which was inevitable if parts of the text had to be altered, and also perhaps the risk of spoiling the language, which induced the author to leave the text intact. In some copies of the tracts, a close examination showed that some words had been rubbed off with the finger from the end of the text. In some other copies, again, there had been left unerased the word "through the medium of newspaper", while the rest of the note had been rubbed off. These words clearly indicate that replies were invited through the medium of some newspaper. And, although the paper might not necessarily be the Paigham-e-Sulh , the words showed so much for certain that the people who had issued the tract were persons in close touch with the newspaper. And the fact also is well-known that for