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The objects of art discovered in Michelangelo's house were a blocked-out statue of S. Peter, an unfinished Christ with another figure, and a statuette of Christ with the cross, resembling the Cristo Risorto of S. Maria Sopra Minerva. Ten original drawings were also catalogued, one of which (a Piet
He recalled the distance seven hundred no, six hundred and ninety-eight miles from Omaha. So far westward was Benton. It lay in the heart of barrenness, alkali, and desolation, on the face of the windy desert, alive with dust-devils, sweeping along, yellow and funnel-shaped a huge blocked-out town, and set where no town could ever live.
"As a matter of fact, however, it's in the Blocked-Out Square cipher like the original lett " "Then they could read the original?" she cut in. "Not unless they have its particular key-word " "Oh, yes; I remember now," said she. "Go on!" "There's no 'go on," he explained. "Nor would it help matters if there were.
The only trace surviving of these twelve Apostles is the huge blocked-out S. Matteo, now in the courtyard of the Accademia.
"Cipher!" commented Harleston, looking at it with half-closed eyes.... "The Blocked-Out Square, I imagine. No earthly use in trying to dig it out without the key-word; and the key-word " he gave a shrug. "I'll let Carpenter try his hand on it; it's too much for me."
"About twenty letters should be enough for experiment?" he suggested, taking up a test card. When he had written the key-word and the letters under it, he, scarcely without reference to the Blocked-Out Square, wrote the translation. Marston did the same, very much slower. "It doesn't fit!" Marston announced. "You can't make anything out of AGELUMTONZN, and so forth." "I can't!"
She took the thin book and glanced through it until she came to the key-words of the Blocked-Out Square the last key-word was the one the Count de M had given her. After all, the Count was not so bad; and he was handsome; thus far dependable; and he was, seemingly at least, in love with her.
Michael Angelo was packed off to Carrara for marble as soon as his design was approved. There is a contract signed by him and two shipowners of Lavagna, dated November 18, 1505. Thirty-four cartloads of marble were then ready for shipment, together with two blocked-out figures. He probably left Carrara soon afterwards, returning to Rome by way of Florence.
He was a providence watching over the boys, who expected nothing of him beyond advice for Ericson! Might there not be a Providence that equally transcended the vision of men, shaping to nobler ends the blocked-out designs of their rough-hewn marbles?
Of these, the Blocked-Out Square, first used by Blaise de Vigenèrie in 1589, is probably still the most generally employed, and, because of its very simplicity, the most impossible of solution. Change the key-word and one has a new cipher. Any word will do; nor does it matter how often a letter is repeated; neither is one held to one word: it may be two or three or any reasonable number.
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