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Updated: May 15, 2025
"Yes, yes, all is clear, I see the link in the chain; everything is explained, and I now understand why Arne Saknussemm, put out of court, forced to hide his magnificent discoveries, was compelled to conceal beneath the veil of an incomprehensible cryptograph, the secret " "What secret?" "A secret which," stammered my uncle. "Have you discovered some wonderful manuscript?" cried M. Fridriksson.
The pun upon the word 'Kidd' is appreciable in no other language than the English. But for this consideration I should have begun my attempts with the Spanish and French, as the tongues in which a secret of this kind would most naturally have been written by a pirate of the Spanish main. As it was, I assumed the cryptograph to be English. "You observe there are no divisions between the words.
My orders were to take at least six weeks for the journey, to go by a roundabout route, and travel as if for pleasure. From the Austrian territory I was to write to Kossuth all the political information I could collect, the messages being conveyed in a cryptograph in which the form of the letter was to be that of a correspondence between lovers.
Would it not have puzzled these old moles too, to have explained by which of the two "roads" a cryptographist unriddles a cryptograph of more than usual secrecy, or by which of the two roads Champollion directed mankind to those enduring and almost innumerable truths which resulted from his deciphering the Hieroglyphics. One word more on this topic and I will be done boring you.
In this instance the translation of the cryptograph did not occupy much time; Diggory produced his double alphabet, and soon spelt out the word: "To-night." The two chums gazed at each other for a few moments in silence. "What does it mean?" queried Jack. "I don't know, unless it is that they are going to have another meeting after tea under the pavilion."
To verify the supposition, let us observe if the 8 be seen often in couples for e is doubled with great frequency in English in such words, for example, as 'meet, .fleet, 'speed, 'seen, been, 'agree, &c. In the present instance we see it doubled no less than five times, although the cryptograph is brief. "Let us assume 8, then, as e.
We were affianced, and loved one another very sincerely. But my uncle, who never thought even of such sublunary matters, knew nothing of this. Without noticing my abstraction, the Professor began reading the puzzling cryptograph all sorts of ways, according to some theory of his own. Presently, rousing my wandering attention, he dictated one precious attempt to me. I mildly handed it over to him.
In fact, to take only the last paragraph with which he began, the formula was: P = D h = a y = c f = o s = s l = t y = a Now, at the very first letter Jarriquez was stopped in his calculations, for the difference in alphabetical position between the d and the p gave him not one cipher, but two, namely, 12, and in this kind of cryptograph only one letter can take the place of another.
I have said enough to convince you that ciphers of this nature are readily soluble, and to give you some insight into the rationale of their development. But be assured that the specimen before us appertains to the very simplest species of cryptograph. It now only remains to give you the full translation of the characters upon the parchment, as unriddled.
"Translating the known characters, and representing the unknown by dots, as before, we read thus: th . rtee . , an arrangement immediately suggestive of the word 'thirteen, and again furnishing us with two new characters, i and n, represented by 6 and *. "Referring, now, to the beginning of the cryptograph, we find the combination, "Translating, as before, we obtain good,
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