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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.
Now the value of the stolen diamonds was estimated at eight hundred and thirty-four contos, or about 2,500,000 francs, and so the formula became 834 834 834 834 phy jsl ydd qfd and this gave a result as little gratifying as the others het bph pa. ic. "Confound the document and him who imagined it!" shouted Jarriquez, throwing down the paper, which was wafted to the other side of the room.
"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.
"76223," answered Bobo, all in a breath. Bobo thought he would please his master by giving him a pretty large one! Judge Jarriquez had run to the table, and, pencil in hand, had made out a formula with the number given by Bobo, and which Bobo had in this way only given him at a venture.
It was Fragoso! Had, then, the brave fellow succeeded in the enterprise of which he had spoken to nobody? Had he found the party to which Torres belonged? Had he discovered some secret which would yet save Joam Dacosta? He hardly knew. But in any case he was in great haste to acquaint Judge Jarriquez with what he had ascertained during his short excursion. And this is what had happened.
"Bobo," said Jarriquez, "attend to what I say, and answer immediately; do not even take time to think, or I " Bobo, with fixed eyes and open mouth, brought his feet together like a soldier and stood at attention. "Are you ready?" asked his master. "I am." "Now, then, tell me, without a moment's thought you understand the first number than comes into your head."
So that Fragoso and Lina were praised and petted by all the family, and by all the new friends whom so many trials had procured them at Manaos, need hardly be insisted on. But had not Judge Jarriquez also had his share in this rehabilitation of an innocent man?
And so from that moment he thought of nothing but how to discover its meaning, and it is scarcely necessary to say that he made up his mind to work at it continuously, even if he forgot to eat or to drink. After the departure of the young people, Judge Jarriquez installed himself in his study. His door, barred against every one, assured him of several hours of perfect solitude.
"And the culprit is living?" "He is dead." The fingers of Judge Jarriquez tattooed more quickly, and he could not avoid exclaiming, "The man who can furnish the proof of a prisoner's innocence is always dead."
To cleave the crowd, which opened as he ran, to dash to the prison, whence the convict was coming at the last moment, with his wife and children clinging to him with the violence of despair, was but the work of a minute for Judge Jarriquez. Stopping before Joam Dacosta, he could not speak for a second, and then these words escaped his lips: "Innocent! Innocent!"
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