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I dare say in some odd corners of my house, you might find some old things with his crest and cipher upon them still. Well, I like you: you shall have the mirror at the fourth part of what I asked for it; but upon one condition."
On opening it next day to look at his letters, he was astonished to see the cipher perfectly reproduced in brown on the parchment by the relieved portion of the letters, the sap having oozed out during the night and imprinted its image on the envelope. This was a discovery.
"I wonder whether that seedy, tramp-like fellow who stole the cipher dispatch, can be Detective Maxx?" said Ben to me on Wednesday night before he started for home. "It is not impossible," I answered, "for detectives are forced to assume all manner of disguises. He may have chosen to stroll about the city in that make-up."
It's better than cipher for I don't talk in my sleep." The four-thirty-five train came in its own time, and brought the two missing placer miners. But it did not bring Baumberger, nor Peaceful Hart, nor any word of either.
"I am trying to explain," Lady Mary protested. "This afternoon he had an important paper to turn into cipher and hand over to the Prime Minister at the Duchess of Montford's dance to-night. The Prime Minister will arrive in a motor car from the country at about two o'clock, and the first thing he will ask for will be that paper. It has been stolen!"
"I can put it into the cipher category. Under that system a name is never mentioned; we work by numbers." He unlocked another drawer and took out two slips of paper, wrote on them, and handed one to Soames. "Keep that, sir; it's your key. I retain this duplicate. The case we'll call 7x.
Now I am exhausted with talking so much. Please give me a little more brandy." Roger did so, finding the man too weak to lift the mug to his lips, and almost too far gone to swallow. Having recovered somewhat, he continued in a weak voice, taking a packet from his pocket: "And now, here is the packet of papers, and the cipher is with them.
"And you did n't even find the little daisy what-you-may-call-'ems the originals, I mean?" She meant the crazy designs on the cipher. "I did not." Genevieve laughed. "Wait till I get back. I mean to have a try at our cryptograph. "They 're there, all right. I 'm sure you 're welcome to try if you 'll let me assist in the search." She wrinkled her nose and sniffed. "Hmf!
Their friend, however, would vouchsafe no further reply than, "Come here out of the way, and I'll tell you." He dragged them along until they reached the deserted entrance to some of the classrooms; then, stopping and turning to them with an extraordinary look of mingled triumph, mystery, and excitement, exclaimed, "I've read the cipher!"
Edward Moale, who was clerk and brother-in-law to Captain Foster. His services were subsequently very valuable in many ways. Fearing that in the course of events our correspondence might be tampered with, I invented a cipher which afterward proved to be very useful. It enabled me to communicate, through my brother in New York, much valuable information to Mr.
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