United States or Egypt ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Recollect what I discovered in Athens, and the extraordinary connection you found in Brussels." "Ah, yes. You mean that clever crowd four men and two women who were working the gambling concession from the Dutch Government!" exclaimed Flockart. "Yes, that was a complete mystery. They sent wires in cipher to Sir Henry at Glencardine.
No wonder, then, that, spite of the difference in their ages and order of birth, Walter Huntingdon looked upon himself as a colossal figure in the household, and on his poor brother as a cipher.
"It must be jolly to be an operator in a long-distance station," mused Dick, "where real things are going on." "Perhaps it is," was Bob's nonchalant answer. "I fancy, though, that very vital government messages go in cipher. Uncle Sam isn't risking having his secrets published far and wide over the face of the whole earth. Although for that matter all radio messages are secret."
I have spoken of my learning Latin: Elizabeth P , the object in all things of my emulous admiration, studied it, and I forthwith begged permission to do so likewise; and while this dead-language ambition possessed me, I went so far as to acquire the Greek alphabet; which, however, I used only as a cipher for "my secrets," and abandoned my Latin lore, just as I had exchanged my Phædrus for Cornelius Nepos, not even attaining to the "Arma virumque cano."
That he would read to me the passages in cipher if I would bring them to him; but he added, 'For that matter, the truth is the greater part of them had better be omitted, as they relate to things which are better forgotten. He then mentioned that he had told Henry Greville that 'I was to have the journals. And I afterwards found that he had intimated his intention to Mr.
And when he came to Hunnicott's cipher with the thrice-underlined "RUSH" written across its face, and had marked the hour of its handing in, he had the good sense to hang up the entire wire business of the railroad until the thing was safely out of his office.
This last question alone bade fair to confound his utmost ingenuity. As for what it was, Lanyard was well satisfied that he now held the true focus of this conspiracy, a secret of the first consequence, far too momentous to the designs of England to be entrusted, though couched in the most cryptic cipher ever mind of man devised, even to cables or mails which England herself controlled.
When you have got the clew, and learned the signs, you will read the cipher with ease." "Very likely; but when will that be?" "Soon. The system is not nearly so complicated as it looks, and the language being English " "English! It looks like a mixture of ancient Mexican and modern Chinese." "The language being English, nothing could be easier for a man of ordinary intelligence.
Phonetic spelling is indulged in occasionally I should almost say humorously were it not a Teuton mind which evolved the phonetic combinations which represent proper names not found in that dictionary names like Holzminden and New York, for example. "As for the symbols and numbers, they are not at all obscure. Reference to the dictionary makes the cipher perfectly clear.
He was the G. R. Burkhill who failed to receive the cipher dispatch which Ben Mayberry undertook to deliver to him on that eventful night. Dolly said her father was dead, or had been gone from home a very long time.
Word Of The Day