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In any case, the situation of Joam Dacosta was most hazardous. If the document were not deciphered, it would be just the same as if it did not exist; and if the secret of the cryptogram were not miraculously divined or revealed before the end of the three days, the supreme sentence would inevitably be suffered by the doomed man of Tijuco. And this miracle a man attempted to perform!
There could be no doubt as to the vindication of Joam Dacosta. The true author of the crime of Tijuco confessed of his own free will, and described the circumstances under which it had been perpetrated! By means of the number Judge Jarriquez interpreted the whole of the cryptogram. And this was what Ortega confessed.
"On the back of it!" gasped the little man. "Was a curious cryptogram." "Do not torture me!" exclaimed Senhor Poritol. "Have you got it?" His fingers worked nervously. "Yes," said Orme slowly, "I still have it." Senhor Poritol hastily took a fresh five-dollar bill from his pocket. "See," he said, jumping to the floor, "here is another just as good a bill.
It stood out plainly now, a series of letters and numbers: Evans, S. R. Chi. The first thought that came to Orme was that this could be no hoax. A joker would have made the curious cryptogram more conspicuous. But what did it mean? Was it a secret formula? Did it give the location of a buried treasure? And why in the name of common sense had it been written on a five-dollar bill?
"I do not know that," replied Judge Jarriquez; "and I am much afraid it will be very difficult to know it." "Why?" exclaimed Benito, who became pale as death. "Because this document is a cryptogram, and " "Well?" "We have not got the key!" THIS WAS a contingency which neither Joam Dacosta nor his people could have anticipated.
"I don't say that," replied Thorndyke. "I say it is correct as far as it goes; but I doubt its being the solution of the cryptogram." "Have you been studying that photograph that I gave you?" demanded Miller, with sudden eagerness. "I have looked at it," said Thorndyke evasively, "but I should like to examine the original if you have it with you." "I have," said the detective.
A poet, who discovered it, scrawled on it: "Lascia la donna e studia la matematica" a cryptogram which subsequent pilgrims variously deciphered. To some, it spelled Thought; to others, Action. Action is thought put in motion. Lennox, to whom time was too dilatory and resignation too remote, happened on the device which he translated after his manner.
Beside his expression the cry of Henry James for lacteal nourishment at the age of one month would have seemed like a Chaldean cryptogram. He told me stories of his profession with pride, for he considered it an art. And I was curious enough to ask him whether he had known any women who followed it. "Ladies?" said Pogue, with Western chivalry. "Well, not to any great extent.
But the caricatures by Topffer upon this subject made me thoughtful; and when Lucette one day caught me with several butterflies in my hat, and in her incomparably mocking voice called me, "Mr. Cryptogram," I was much humiliated. The poor old grandmother who sang so constantly was dying. We were all standing about her bed at nightfall one spring evening.
After seven years of inept war in which they had all the breaks, including that of a halfhearted enemy, they established 'upon this continent a new nation. Some of the phrases thrown off in the heat of propaganda were taken seriously and despite shocked opposition written into basic law. "The cryptogram is readable backward or forward, straightaway or upside down.
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