M. W. S. — I congratulate you on the success that has

already rewarded your exertions. These letters are the
initials of those virtues by whose assistance you may be
led to the discovery of the lost WOED,^ut before I can
further explain myself, I must call upon you to take a
solemn O.B. to keep inviolate the Secrets and Mysteries
of our Order! Are you prepared to take this O.B. ? "*>•

Cand. — I am.