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"Ah," said he, "I see you don't cipher, and Latin and Greek won't do; them 'ere people had no railroad. Well, find out, and then only add ten per cent to it, for increased value, and if it don't give the cost of a railroad, then my name is not Sam Slick.
The whole looked like a large ship's compass, but instead of north, south, east, and west, the table around the well, and at a level with the compass, was marked out into alternate spaces of red and black, bearing one on each space the figures from 1 to 36, and ending in 0, so that in all there were thirty-seven spaces, the one bearing the cipher being opposite to the strange woman who presided.
He recalled the cipher that had been found at Grave Street, and decided that there was at least room for hope in that direction. Besides, there was at least one man now in custody who knew something of the mystery, and, even if he kept his lips locked indefinitely, there was a probable chance of a new line of inquiry opening when his identity was discovered.
The average American is, and remains a pacifist 'Er segnet Friede und Friedenszeiten, and can only be drawn into war by passionate popular excitement." With the facts contained in the above report the following telegram is also concerned, which I despatched after the visit to the President mentioned above: TELEGRAM IN CIPHER "Washington, 11th October 1916.
The death of Darby of old Darby, as he had begun to be called cut off Little Darby from his "schoolin'", in the middle of his third year, and before he had learned more than to read and cipher a little and to write in a scrawly fashion; for he had been rather irregular in his attendance at all times.
"It is the Vigenèrie cipher, that's reasonably certain; and, as you are aware, Mr. Harleston, the Vigenèrie is practically impossible of solution without the key-word. It is the one cipher that needs no code-book, nor anything else that can be lost or stolen the code-word can be carried in one's mind. We used it in the De la Porte affair, you will remember.
Not one word of it could he make out. It was in cipher! "Why the deuce was this given to me!... what does the whole thing mean? Is it possible they take me for...." Paris rises very late indeed on New Year's Day. The night before is given up to family reunions, supper parties and every kind of jollification. So the year begins with a much needed rest.
But then that cipher business I was fully convinced by now that it was some original kind of cryptogram rather pointed the other way. One of the things I had noticed had been a £ sign, and anything dealing with any of the Latin Republics would almost assuredly have been written with a $ sign. Ultimately I came to the conclusion that I had been barking up the wrong tree.
Wilson's mediation, I did not even consider. Immediately after my return from New Hampshire I telegraphed the following to the Foreign Office: TELEGRAM IN CIPHER NO. 100 "Rye, 6th September, 1916. "Wilson's mediation postponed until further notice because for the moment out of question, owing to Rumania's entry into war and consequent renewed prospect of victory for our enemies.
His business with the secret service of the Department was to pull the strings and obtain results; and he got results, else he would not have been continued in office. His specialty, however, was ciphers; and his chief joy was in a case that had a cipher at the bottom. Ciphers were his recreation, as well as his business.
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