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36 RIZAL BEYOND THE GRAVE"d's" of "podido" at the end of the fourteenth line. Do we notalso find, at least in form, similarity of "d's"?Now look at the "f" in "Jefe" of Fresno's writing and compareit with the "f's" in "profeso" in line seven, and"manifestacion"in line thirteen, and we shall find the same form and the samestroke in the connection towards the next letter. This conneetionstroke is the little curve from the staff of "f" to the followingletter. What do these indicate?The "q" in "Piquete" written by Fresno and the "q's" in"eduqué", in line two, and many other "q's" in the body of theretraction as can be verified by observation indeed show a greataffinity to one another, except in the upward stroke to connectwith the following letter. This also must not be neglected.The crossing of the "t's" in "Piquete" and "ayudante" withthe concavity facing downward, is very similar to the "t" crossingsin the retraction aboye them, especially that of "catolico"in the first line, "conducta" in the fifth line, "Catolica" in thesixth fine, "someto" in the seventh line, "Eclesiastica" in thetwelfth line, "actos" in the fourteenth line, etc. That two orthree hands shall produce such concavity in crossing "t's" isreally very surprising.Could we afford to neglect here the fact that the "r" of "Fresno"and the "r" of "Maure" are almost the same in form and in themanner of production as the "r's" in the body of the retraction?Again, is it not but logical to observe that the "a" of "Plaza"written by Maure was produced in the same manner as the "a's",say, in "catolico" and "esta", first line, and many others in thebody of the retraction?Another fact that must not here be forgotten is the slantof the supposed writings of three different persons. In the accompanyingdiagram, Figure XXII, we have the graphs of their respectiveslants. We here find that the slant of Maure's writingand the signature of Jose Rizal are almost the same, and thereis affinity between the slants of the signatures of Maure and Fresno.Are not all these points evidente that this document is a onemandocument? 1f not, how shall we explain the sameness ineconomy of finishing strokes, ellipticity, angularity of connections,forms of many letters, even width of shaded and pressed strokes,in tendency to go down in the alignment, and even slant? To