Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 166, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 3, 1893 Page: 3 of 8
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“I let myself down to the ledge.”
“The ‘good glass,’ I knew, could have
reference to nothing but a telescope, for
the word ‘glass’ is rarely employed in
any other sense by seamen. Now here,
I at once saw, was a telescope to be
used, and a definite point of view^ ad-
mitting no variation, from which to use
it. Nor did I hesitate to believe that the
phrases, “41 degrees and 13 minutes’ and
‘northeast and by north,’ were intended
as directions for the leveling of the glass.
Greatly excited by thgse discoveries X
t eeth.
“Here we are enabled at once to dis-
card the ‘th,’ as forming no portion of
the word commencing with the first t,
since by experiment of the entire alpha-
bet for a letter adapted to the vacancy
we perceive that no word can be formed
of which this th can be a part. We are
thus narrowed into
t ee,
a,nd going through the alphabet, if neces-
sary, as before, we get to the word ‘tree’ as
the sole possible reading. We thus gain
another letter, r, represented by (, with
the words ‘the tree’ in juxtaposition.
“Looking beyond these words for a
short distance, we again see the combi-
nation ;48, and employ it by way of ter-
mination to what immediately precedes.
We have thus this arrangement:
the tree ;4($?34 the,
or, substituting the natural letters, where
known, it reads thus:
the tree thr$?3h the.
“Now, if in place of the unknown char-
acters we leave blank spaces or substi-
tute dots, we read thus:
the tree thr...h the,
when the word ‘through’ makes itself
evident at once. But this discovery
gives us three new letters—o, u and g
represented by $ ? and 3.
“Looking now, narrowly, through the
cipher for combinations of known char-
acters, we find, not very far from the
beginning, this arrangement:
83(88, or egree,
which, plainly, is the conclusion of the
‘degree,’ and gives us another letter, d,
represented by f.
“Four letters beyond the word ‘de-
gree’ we perceive the combination
;(48;88.
“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 fur-
nishing us with two new characters, i
and n, represented by 6 and *.
“Referring now to the beginning of
the cryptograph, we find the combina-
tion
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most frequently occurs is e. Afterward .
the succession runs thus: aoidhnrst
uycfglmwbkpqxz. E predomi-
nates so remarkably that an individual
sentence of any length is rarely seen in
which it is not the prevailing character.
“Here, then, we have, in the very be-
ginning the groundwork for something
more than a mere guess. The general
use which may be made of the table is
obvious, but in this particular cipher we
shall only very partially require its aid.
As our predominant character is 8, we
will commence by assuming it as the e of
the natural alphabet. To verify the sup-
position, 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,’ etc. In the
present instance we see it doubled no less
than five times, although the crypto-
\ graph is brief.
' “Let us assume 8, then, as e. Now, of
’ all words in the language ‘the’is the
1 most usual. Let us see, therefore, whether
there are no repetitions of any three
characters in the same order of colloca-
tion, the last of them being 8. If we dis-
cover repetitions of such letters so ar-
ranged, they will probably represent the
word ‘the.’ Upon inspection we find no
less than seven such arrangements, the
characters being ;48. We may therefore _ ___ .
assume that ; represents t, 4 represents h p0|nt of extending my sphere
and 8 represents e—the last being now .
well confirmed. Thus a great step has
been taken.
“But, having established a single word,
we are enabled to establish a vastly im-
portant point—that is to say, several com-
mencements and terminations of other
words. Let us refer, for example, to the
last instance but one, in which the com-
bination ;48 occurs—not far from the end
of the cipher. We know that the ; im-
mediately ensuing is the commencement
of a word, and of the six characters suc-
ceeding this ‘the’ we are cognizant of no
less than five. Let us set these charac-
ters down thus, by the letters we know
them to represent, leaving a space for the
unknown—
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8
8
4
6
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“We have therefore no less than 10
of the most ’important letters repre-
sented, and it will be unnecessary to pro-
ceed with the details of the solution. 1
daily as the more simple ciphers are con-
cerned, depend upon and are varied by
the genius of the particular idiom. In
general there is no alternative but exper-
iment (directed by probabilities) of ever j
tongue known to him who attempts the
solution until the true one be obtained,
but with the cipher now before us all
difficulty was removed by the signature.
The pun upon the word ‘Kidd’ is appre-
ciable 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 as
sumed the cryptograph to be English.
“You observe there are no divisions
between the words. Had there been di-
visions, the task would have been com
paratively easy. In such case I should
have commenced with a collation and an
’analysis of the shorter words, and had a
word of a single letter occurred, as in
most likely (a,or I, for example), I should
have considered" the solution as assured;
but, there being no division, my first
step was to ascertain the predominant let-
ters as well as the least frequent. Count-
ing all, I constructed a table thus:
“Of the character 8 there are 33.
4
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5
6
“Of the character f 1 there are 8.
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“Now, in English, the letter which
most frequently occurs is
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“I showed him the insect”
“Ah, hereupon turns the whole mys-
tery, although the secret at this point I
had comparatively little difficulty in
solving. My steps were sure and could
afford but a single result. I reasoned, for
example, thus: When I drew the scara-
bseus, there was no skull apparent upon
the parchment. When I had completed
the drawing, I gave it to you and ob-
served you narrowly until you returned
it. You therefore did not design the
skull, and no one else was present to do it.
Then it was not done by human agency.
And nevertheless it was done.
“At this stage of my reflections I en-
deavored to remember, and did remem-
ber with emire distinctness, every inci-
dent which occurred about the period in
question. The weather was chilly (oh,
rare and happy accident!) and a fire was
blazing upon the hearth. I was heated
with exercise and sat near the table. You,
however, had drawn a chair close to the 3
U chimney. Just as I placed the parchment ■
lb in your hand, and as you were in the act .
r of inspecting it, Wolf, the Newfoundland,
entered and leaped upon your shoulders.
With your left hand you caressed him
and kept him off, while your right, hold-
ing the parchment, was permitted to fall
listlessly between your knees and in close
proximity to the fire. At one moment I
thought the blaze had caught it and was
about to caution you, but before I could
speak you had withdrawn it and were
engaged in its examination.
“When I considered all these particu-
lars, I doubted not for a moment that
heat had been the agent in bringing to
light upon the parchment the skull which
I saw designed upon it. You are well
aware that chemical preparations exist,
and have existed time out of mind,
by means of which it is possible to write
upon either paper or vellum so that the
characters shall become .visible only
when subjected to the action of fire.
Zaffre digested in aqua regia and di-
luted with four times its weight of wa-
ter is sometimes employed; a green tint
results. The regulars of. cobalt dis-
solved in spirit of niter give a red.
These colors disappear at longer or
shorter intervals after the material writ-
ten upon cools, but again become appar-
ent upon the reapplication of heat.
“I now scrutinized the death’s head
with care. Its outer edges—the edges of
the drawing nearest the edge of the vel-
lum—were far more distinct than the
others. It was clear that the action of
the caloric had been imperfect or un-
equal. I immediately kindled a fire and
subjected every portion of the parch-
ment to a glowing heat. At first the
only effect was the strengthening of the
faint lines in the skull, but upon perse-
vering in the experiment there became
visible at the corner of the slip, diago-
nally opposite to the spot in which the
death’s head was delineated, the figure
of what I at first supposed to be a goat.
A closer scrutiny, however, satisfied me
that it was intended for a kid.”
“Ha! ha!” said I, “to be sure I have no
right to laugh at you—$1,500,000 of
money is too serious a matter for mirth
—but you are not about to establish a
third link in your chain—you will not
find any special connection between
your pirates and a goat—pirates, you
know, have nothing to do with goats;
they appertain to the farming interest.”
“But I have just said that the figure
was not that of a goat.”
“Well, a kid, then—pretty much the
same thing.”
“Pretty much, but not altogether/’
‘ said Legrand. “You may have heard of
Captain Kidd. I at once looked upon
the figure of the animal as a L.—d -f
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old letter, when my hand fell upon the
parchment. I thus detail tnc precise
mode in which it came into my posses-
sion, for the circumstances impressed me
with peculiar force.
“No doubt you will think me fanciful,
but I had already established a kind of
connection. I had put together two
links of a great chain. There was a boat
lying upon a seacoast, and not fai fi om
-.ffie boat was a parchment—not a paper
—with a skull depicted upon it. You
will of course ask, ‘Where is the connec-
tion?’ I reply that the skull or death’s
head is the well known emblem of the
pirate.- The flag of the death’s head is
hoisted in all engagements.
“I have said that the scrap was parch-
ment and not paper. Parchment is du-
rable—almost imperishable. Matters of
little moment are rarely consigned to
parchment, since for the mere ordinary
purposes of drawing or writing it is not
nearly so -well adapted as paper. This
reflection suggested some meaning—some
relevancy—in the death’s head. I did not
fail to observe also the form of the parch-
ment. Although one of its corners had
been by some accident destroyed, it
could be seen that the original form was
oblong. It was just such a slip indeed
as might have been chosen for a memo-
randum—for a record of something to be
long remembered and carefully pre-
served.”
“But,” I interposed, “you say that the
skull W’as not upon the parchment when
you made the drawing of the beetle. How,
then, do you trace any connection be-
tween the boat and the skull, since this
latter, according to your own admission,
must have been designed (God only knows
how or by whom) at some period subse-
quent to your sketching the scarabaeus?”
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have said enough to convince you that j
ciphers of this nature are readily solu- ;
ble and to give you some insight into (
the rationale of their development. But i
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 un-
riddled. Here it is:
“ ‘A good - glass in the bishop’s hostel
in the" devil’s seat 41 degrees and 13
minutes northeast and by north main
branch seventh limb east side shoot
from the left eye of the death’s head a
bee line from the tree through the shot
50 feet out.’ ”
“But,” said I, “the enigma seems still
in as bad a condition as ever. How is it
possible to extort a meaning from all
this jargon about ‘devil’s seats,’ ‘death s
heads’ and ‘bishop’s hotels?’
“1 confess,” replied Legrand, “that
the matter still wears a serious aspect
when regarded with a casual glance.
My first endeavor was to divide the sen-
tence into the natural division intended
by the cryptographist.”
“You mean to punctuate it?”
“Something of that kind.”
“But how was it possible to effect
this?”
“I reflected that it had been a point
with the writer to • run his words to-
gether without division so as to increase
the difficulty of solution. Now, a not
overacute man, in pursuing such an Ob-
ject, would be nearly certain to overdo
the matter. When in the course of his
composition he arrived at a break in his
subject which would naturally require a
pause or a point, he would be exceeding-
ly apt to run his characters at this place
more .than usually close together. If
you will observe the MS. in the present
instance, you will easily detect five such
cases of unusual crowding. Acting upon
this hint, I made the division thus:
“ ‘A good glass in the Bishop’s hostel
in the devil’s seat-41 degrees and 13
minutes—northeast and by north—main
branch seventh limb east side—shoot
from the left eye of the death’s head—a
bee line from the tree through the shot
50 feet out.’”
“Even this division,” said I, “leaves
me still in the dark.”
! “It left me also in the dark,” replied
’ Legrand, “for a few days, during which
1 made diligent inquiry in the neighbor-
’ hood of Sullivan’s island for any build-
’ ing which went by the name of the
' ‘Bishop’s hotel,’ for of course I dropped
the obsolete woi'd ‘hostel.’ Gaining no
information on the subject, I was on the
____________ > of search
and proceeding in a more systematic
manner when one morning it entered
into my head quite suddenly that this
‘Bishop’s hostel’ might have some refer
ence to an old family of the name of
Bessop, which time out of mind had
held possession of an ancient manor
house about four miles to the northward
of the island.
“I accordingly went over to the plan-
tation and reinstituted my inquiries
among the older negroes of the place
At length one of the most aged of the
women said that she had heard of such
a place as Bessop's castle and thought
that she could guide me to it, but that
it was not a castle nor a tavern, but a
high rock.
“I offered to pay her well for her trou-
ble, and after some demur she consented
to accompany me to the spot. We found ■
it without much difficulty, when, dismiss-
ing her, I proceeded to examine the
place. The ‘castle’ consisted of an ir-
regular assemblage of cliffs and rocks—
one of the latter being quite remarkable
for its height as well as for its insulated
and artificial appearance. I clambered
to its apex and then felt much at a loss
as to what should be next done.
“While I was busied in reflection my
eyes fell upon a narrow ledge in the east-
ern face of the rock, perhaps a yard be-
low the summit upon which I stood.
This ledge projected about 18 inches and
was not more than a foot wide, while a
niche in the cliff just above it gave it a
rude resemblance to one of the hollow
backed chairs used by our ancestors. I
; made no doubt that here was the ‘devil’s
seat’ alluded to in the MS., and now I
seemed to grasp the full secret of the
riddle.
hurried home, procured a telescope and
returned to the rock.
•‘I let myself down to the ledge and
found that it was impossible to retain a
seat upon it except in one particular po-
sition. This fact confirmed my precon-
ceived idea. I proceeded to use the glass.
Of course the ‘41 degrees and 13 minutes’
could allude to nothing but elevation
above the visible horizon, since the hori-
zontal direction was clearly indicated by
the words ‘northeast and by north.’ This
latter direction I at once established by
means of a pocket compass. Then,
pointing the glass as nearly at an angle
of 41 degrees of elevation as I could do it
by guess, 1 moved it cautiously up or
down until my attention was arrested
by a circular rift or opening in the foli-
age of a large tree that overtopped its
fellows in the distance. In the center of
this rift I perceived a white spot, but
could not at first distinguish what it was.
Adjusting the focus of the telescope, I
again looked and now made it out to be
a human skull.
“Upon this discovery I was so sanguine
as to consider the enigma solved, for the
phrase ‘main branch, seventh limb, east
side’ could refer only to the position of
the skull upon the tree, while ‘shoot from
the left eye of the death’s head’ admitted
also of but one interpretation in regard
to a search for buried treasure. I per-
ceived that the design was to drop a bul-
let from the left eye of the skull and that
a bee line, or, in other words, a straight
line, drawn from the nearest point of the
trunk through ‘the shot’ (or the spot
where the bullet fell), and thence extend-
ed to a distance of 50 feet, would indicate
• a definite point, and beneath this point
I thought it at least possible that a de-
and, although ingenious, still simple and...... - ------■ ™
explicit. When you left the Bishop’s
hotel, what then?”
■ “Why, having carefully taken the bear-
ings of the tree, I turned homeward. The
instant that 1 left ‘the devil’s seat,’ how-
ever, the circular rift vanished, nor could
I get a glimnse of it afterward, turn as I
would. What seems to me the chief in-
genuity in this whole business is the fact
(for repeated experiment has convinced
me it is a fact) that the circular opening
in question is visible from no other at-
tainable point of view than that afforded
by the narrow ledge upon the face of the
rock.
“In this expedition to the ‘Bishop’s
hotel’ I had been attended by Jupiter,
wTho had no doubt observed for some
weeks past the abstraction of my de-
meanor and took especial care not tu
leave me alone. But on the next day,
getting up very early, I contrived to give
him the slip and went into the hills in .
search of the tree. After much toil I
found it. When I came home at night,
my valet proposed to give me a flogging.
With the rest of the adventure I believe
you are as well acquainted as myself.”
“I suppose,” said I, “you missed the
spot in the first attempt at digging
through Jupiter’s stupidity in letting the
bug fall through the right instead of
through the left eye of the skull.”
“Precisely. Tins mistake made a dif-
ference of about 2-j} inches in the ‘shot’
—that is to say, in the position of the
’ peg nearest the tree—and had tbe
treasure been beneath the ‘shot’ the
i error would have been of little moment,
; but the ‘shot,’ together with the nearest
. point of the tree, were merely two points
for the establishment of a line of direc-
tion. Of course the error, however trival
in the beginning, increased as we pro-
ceeded with the line, and by the time
had gone 50 feet threw us quite off the
scent. But for my deep seated impres-
sions that treasure was here somewhere
actually buried we might have had all
our labor in vain.”
“But your grandiloquence and your
conduct in swinging the beetle—how ex-
cessively odd! I was sure.you were mad.
And why did you insist upon letting fall
the bug instead of a bullet from the
shell?”
“Why, to be frank, I felt somewhat
annoyed by your evident suspicions
touching my sanity, and so resolved to
punish you quietly, in my own way, by
a little bit of sober mystification. For
this reason I swung the beetle, and for
this reason I let it fall from the tree. An ■
observation of yours about its great
weight suggested the latter idea.”
“Yes, I perceive. And now there is
only one point which puzzles me. W hat
are we to make of the skeletons found in
the hole?”
“That is a question I am no more able
to answer than yourself. There seems,
however, only one plausible way of ac-
counting for them—and yet it is dread-
ful to believe in such atrocity as my sug-
gestion would imply. It is clear that
Kidd—if Kidd indeed secreted this treas-
ure, which I doubt not—it is clear that
he must have had assistance in the labor.
But this labor concluded, he may have
thought it expedient to remove all par-
ticipants in his secret. Perhaps a couple
of blows with a mattock were sufficient
while his coadjutors were busy in the
pit; perhaps it required a dozen. Who
shall tell?”
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say signature because its position upon <
the vellum suggested this idea. The <
derah’s heau at the corner diagonally 1
opposite had, in the same manner, the ;
air of a stamp or seal. But I was sorely
put out by the absence of all else—of
the body to my imagined instrument
of the text for my context.”
“I presume you expected to find a let-
ter between the stamp and the signa-
ture.”
“Something of that kind. The fact is,
I felt irresistibly impressed with a pre-
sentiment of some vast good fortune im-
pending. I can scarcely say whj. Per-
haps, after all, it was rather a desire
than an actual belief, but do you know ■
that Jupiter’s silly words about the bug
being of solid gold had a remarkable
effect upon my fancy? And then the
series of accidents and coincidences—
these were so very extraordinary. Do
you observe how mere an accident it vias
that these events should have occurred
upon the sole day of all the year in
which it has been or may be sufficiently
cool for fire, and that without the fire
or without the intervention of the dog at
the precise moment in which he ap-
peared I should never have become
aware of the death’s head, and so never
the possessor of the treasure?”
“But proceed—I am all impatience.”
“Well, you have heard, of course, the
many stories current, the thousand vague
rumors afloat, about money buried
somewhere upon the Atlantic coast by
Kidd and his associates. These rumors
must have had some foundation in fact.
And that the rumors have existed so
long and so continuous could have re-
sulted, it appeared to me, only from the
circumstance of the buried treasure stiff
remaining entombed. Had Kidd con-
cealed his plunder for a time and after-
ward reclaimed it, the rumors would
scarcely have reached us in their present
unvarying form.
“You will observe that the stories told
are all about money seekers, not about
money finders. Had the pirate recov-
ered his money, there the affair would
have dropped. It seemed to me that
some accident—say the loss of a memo-
randum indicating its locality—had de-
prived him of the means of recovering
it, and that this accident had become
known to his followers, who otherwise
might never have heard that treasure
had been concealed at all, and who,
busying themselves in vain because un-
guided attempts to regain it, had given
first birth and then universal currency
to the reports which are now so com-
mon. Have you ever heard of any im-
portant treasure being unearthed along
the coast?”
“Never.”
“But that Kidd’s accumulations were
immense is well known. I took it for
granted, therefore, that the earth still
held them, and you will scarcely be sur-
prised when I tell you that I felt a hope
nearly amounting to certainty that the
parchment so strangely found involved
a lost record of the place of deposit.”
“But how did you proceed?”
“I held the vellum again to the fire
after increasing the heat, but nothing
appeared. I now thought it possible uhat
the coating of dirt might have something
to do with the failure, so I carefully
rinsed the parchment by pouring warm
water over it, and having done this I
placed it in a tin pan, with the skull
downward, and put the pan upon a fur-
nace of lighted charcoal. In a few min-
utes, the pan having become thoroughly
5 heated, I removed the slip, and to my in-
expressible joy found it spotted it sev-
eral places with what appeared to ba
figures arranged in lines. Again I placed
it in the pan and suffered it to remain
another minute. Upon taking it off the
whole was just as you see it now.”
Here Legrand, having reheated the
parchment, submitted it to my inspec-
tion. The following characters were
rudely traced in a red tint between ths
death’s head and the goat:
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5 ;l$(;:$*8f83(88)5* j-;46(;88'x’96*?;8)*$(;485);5
*+S:*$(;4956*2(5*—4)8518*4069285);) 6$8)4$
$ ;1($9 ;48081 ;8:8$1 ;48$85;4)485f528806*81($9
;48;(88;4($??4;48)4$;161;:188;$?;
“But,” said I, returning him the slip,
“I am as much in the dark as ever. Were
all the jewels of Golconda awaiting me
upon my solution of this enigma, I am
To the Stockholders of the Galveston
and Western Kailway Company.
TN pursuance of a resolution of the Board oi
1 Directors of the Galveston and Western
to the stockholders of the said Galveston ana
Western Railway Company is hereby given
that there will be a mtetltg of the stockholders
of said Company, at the Compani’s office in
the City of Galveston, State of Texas, at 12
o’clock m. on T hursday tbe 20th day of JHly»
1893, cabed ty the sain Board of Directors for
the purpose- of determining whether or not the
ines of lailway and the increasing of
its capital stock to $10,000 a mile ot
road. Second: To authorize, consolida-
tion with other Railroad Companies. .Third.
To authorize the Directow to acquire certain
property. Fourth: To authorize ihe Duectors
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to be built and secured by first mortgage on raid
road and its appurtenances, and for the Trans-
acting such, other business as may propeily
come betom SELKIB5:,
Secretary.
Galveston, Tex., May 16,1193.
W. L. DOUGLAS
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(62.50
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W. L Douglas Shoes are made in ailjh$
Latent Styles.
if you want a fine DRESS SHOE don't pay $6 to $8,
try my $3.50, $4 or $5 Shoe. They will fit equal to cus-
tom made and look and wear as well. If you wish Jo
economize in your footwear, you can do so by purchasing
W. L. Douglas Shoes. My name and price is stamped
on the bottom, look for it when you buy. Take no sub-
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ti>Stage free, when Shoe Dealers cannot supply you.
W.L. DOUGI.AS, Brockton, Mass. Sold by
THEO. STRAUSS, Ageait,
414 9 rement St., Galveston. f
41 YEARS
IN THE LEAD
AND STILL, THERE;
A VEST- POCKET
remedy — Dr. Pierce’s
Pleasant Pellets. Put up
in little glass vials, handy
»nd convenient. Sealed,
too, so that you know
™ they’re always fresh and
liUij reliable, unlike the ordi-
nary pills in wooden or
pasteboard boxes. _
f® There’s nothing in the
' rwl w'ay of pills as small or as
LWi easy to take as these little
® Pellets. There’s nothing
A ® so easy an(l natural in ap-
** tion—nothing that can do
as much lasting good. They absolutely and
nermcmently cure Constipation, Biliousness,
Indigestion, Sick or Bilious Headaches, Jaun-
dice, Sour Stomach,, and Dizziness. All de-
rangements of liver, stomach, and bowels are
prevented, relieved, and cured.
They’re guaranteed to give satisfaction, or
your money is returned.
A case of Catarrh that can’t be cured by
Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy is so> rare that
the makers of the medicine are willing to risk
this offer: “ If we can’t cure your Catarrh,
perfectly and permanently, no matter what
your case is, we’ll pay you $500.”
_ £
Legrand, haring rehea ted the parchment,
submitted it to my inspection.
“And yet,” said Legrand, “the solu-
tion is by no means so difficult as you
might be led to imagine from the first
hasty inspection of the characters. These
characters, as any one might readily
guess, form a cipher—that is to say, they
convey a meaning—but, then, from what
is known of Kidd, I could not suppose
him capable of constructing any of the
more abstruse cryptographs. I made up
my mind at once that this was of a
simple species—such, however, as would
appear to the crude intellect of the sailor
absolutely insoluble without the key.”
“And you really solved it?”
“Readily. I have solved others of an
abstruseness 10,000 times greater. Cir-
cumstances and a certain bias of minu
have led me to take interest in such rid-
dles, and it may well be doubted whether
human ingenuity can construct an enig-
ma of the kind which human ingenuity
may not, by proper application, resolve.
In fact, having once established con-
nected and legible characters, I scarcely
gave a thought to the mere difficulty of
developing their import.
“In the present cases—indeed in all
cases of secret writing—the first question i
kind of regards the language of the cipher, for [
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