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Believe Smith in London. "Anything important, sir?" the young man at the typewriter asked. Thomson nodded but made no immediate reply. He first of all carefully destroyed the message which he had received, and the transcription, and watched the fragments of paper burn into ashes. Then he replaced the code-book in the safe, which he carefully locked, and strolled towards the window.
To decipher the message, a special code-book or dictionary would be required. In order to transmit the currents through the line, he devised a mechanical sender, in which the circuit would be interrupted by a series of types carried on a port-rule or composing-stick, which travelled at a uniform speed.
She was abeam now, a mile away; how slow they were in running up an answer! We pictured their signal quartermaster racking the pigeon-holes to spell "Ladysmith," and expected a gaudy display. Presently the coloured stream blew out from her main topmast stay. Only four flags! "DFPC," reported the Third Officer, and there was a scramble for the Code-book. "Nothing important since last accounts."
"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.
"Mr. Vaux?" came a distinct voice which he did not recognise. "Yes," he snapped, "who is it?" "Miss Erith." "Oh er surely surely! GOOD-evening, Miss Erith!" "Good-evening, Mr. Vaux. Are you, by any happy chance, quite free this evening?" "Well I'm rather busy unless it is important hum hum! in line of duty, you know " "You may judge. I'm going to try to secure that code-book to-night." "Oh!
"Cassidy seems to know nothing about the code-cipher," she whispered. "I think he rummaged on general principles, not in search of any code-book." She looked around the dining-room. The doors of the yellow oak sideboard were open, but no book was there among the plated knives and forks and the cheap dishes.
"It's an ideal location, up here in the mountains. I'd better smash it at once." "Wait," warned Jane, thoughtfully, "they spoke of having received a wireless message from those dreadful X-boats lying there off the coast. If we could only find their code-book, perhaps " "Right," cried Carter, catching her idea at once.
No race has ever been known where the power of memory has been developed even in rare individual cases to the degree that is common to all classes of the Chinese, especially to the literati. The Chinese telegraph clerk quickly learns all the essential portion of the code-book by heart. The book then lies in the drawer a superfluity.
Furthermore, you may proceed leisurely in the process; there is no particular haste; while they are occupied with the letter matter, there is apt to be less activity along other lines. Only get a copy of the letter; I have the key-word." "You have the key-word!" Marston exclaimed. She nodded. "I'm quite sure of it; and the code-book confirms me.
"Did you notice Cassidy's grin of triumph?" "Poor Cassidy," she said. "I don't know. He butted in." "All the services are working at cross-purposes. It's a pity." "Well, Cassidy got his man. That's practically all he came for. Evidently he never heard of a code-book in connection with Lauffer's activities. That diagonal cipher caught him."
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