Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-04-26

sellers az whose warehouses small shop
keepers can supply themselves without the
trouble of sending to different publishers
! in quest of works. At one of these ware
| houses I was known, and was allowed to
make an inspection ST all the pocket-dic-
/ tionaries in stock. | selected about half
a score. that seemed more or less likely to
meet nv requirements, and then hurried
home, having foolishly left my cipher be-
hind me. On reaching home, | carefully
tried my dictionaries one by one, in every
way suggested by what | had already learn
| ed of the nature of the cipher. | at last
found one, which, by taking the first num-
Der of the page, and the second for the
word. not counting lines, but only words in
their alphabetical order, gave sense. The
title-page informed me that it was Web
ster's Dictionary, the zone hundredth
thousand and was published at 158 Fleet
Street. With very little trouble, made
out the following
FRED. hear that search is being made
in all direction canal drag H was arrest
ON suspicion but servant saw another man
| in the cab at the time policeman also saw
him afterwards in it cab man not found
stay where you are / will advertise
| twentieth Nov
need only say in explanation, that where
word, like ''are" was not in the die
tionary, it was spelt by indicating the letter
of the alphabet at the head of each division
in the dictionary; plan also adopted in
the wore :. dragged" the termination being
| indicated by the separate Sd 1t was
thus possible to spell any proper name or
word which might not occur in the die
tionary.
The contents of the cipher were so diff
ferent from what Waitzen had led me to ex-
pect that it was evident there was some
mistake Yet what could it be? He could
not have given me wrong slip, for he had
called my attention to the word at the head.
had fairly earned the promised reward,
but there was so clearly mistake some
where, that | was anxious to ferret out the
mystery Waitzen had given me the date
| of the paper, and therefore sent for a copy,
which was got after some delay. Singularly
enough, there was in it, just below the ad-
vertisement had eciphered, another one,
also in cipher The second cryptogram
was of the simplest description; one letter
was substituted for another. In ten min
utes, l had translation of it lying before
me. Here it is:-
FEDE. | don't think that am watched !;
not sure. Police went down to Liverpool
| after you. Get as soon as you can to A ,
where / will join you. got the bag all
right Steamer sails ON the seventeenth.
This looked much more like Chr. Waitzen's
affair. I had just deciphered it when
heard his knock at the door. | showed him
nv reading of the first advertisement; he
| looked at it in blank dismay, but when
assured him that there could be no mistake,
and producing the key, showed him, gl eatly
to his wonderment, how to use it, he took
! from his pocket book check which he filled
up, and handed to me. "One moment"
said, handing him the second lis that
what you want?" / saw by his face that it
was, and he assured me that the information
given, slight as it was, was quite enough
for him. | explained to him how had hit
upon it. But the words at the top! Well,
after all, they were not very dissimilar, In
| the letters that composed them, at all events;
and if they had got changed by some mis-
take, perhaps the confusion was not alto
gether without precedent Chr. Waitzen
enlarged the figures ON the check, and was
preparing to give immediate chase, when
stopped him do you know anything
about the other affair ?" l asked.
''Yes," he said, "and curious affair it
is; would you like to hear it 20
I nodded assent, and offered him chair.
s'Two friends, A. and the FL. Of the adj
vertisement, went one day about month
ago, to dine at a foreign restaurant at the
West End, and having dined, returned home
together in cab, both living in the same
neig hborhood, st. Johns Wood. H. lived
nearer to town than A., and to his house
accordingly the cabman drove first. 1t was
wet night and the cabman got down to
knock at the door, telling the friends as he
did so that it was raining. 1t was perhaps
lucky for f. that things so fell out, for the
servant who came to the door. and who
knew A., saw him in the cab. H.. after
bidding A. good night, went into the house,
and as he did so, saw the cab drive off with
A. in it. A policeman whom the cab passed
a little further ON also saw man within it.
That was the last seen Of A. alive or dead
from that time to this"
ga curious story" / said, "what can il
mean 2"
"Don't know" replied Waitzen; "but
A., who was very close on the subject, had
passed years of his life abroad in Italy
rowing about no one knew where or how.
y
nected with his old continental life, and H
remembers trifing circumstance that
seems to make this probable He observed
that when at the restaurant, a foreign one
as have said, A. suddenly started, as if he
had received shock; in answer to H.'s
inquiries. he refused to explain himself, but
altered his position, so as to face round
| There was change in his manner notice
| oh xhro,,ub tho hclo n,bo
he babe H. good night, there was an earn
estness in his tone that seemed to betoken
apprehension of coming evil Fl had
wished to see him home, but this be refused
| can only guess at the rest. Some act Of
had always kept A. silent on his foreign
life"
But the police ?" said.
"And Foschina, - and the Waterloo
Bridge business? replied Waitzen, shrug
ging bis shoulders.
''The Waterloo Bridge AFFAIR."" asked
eyes, there was an Italian brain at the
bottom of that, as surely as Italians were
concerned in the case of Foschina, whose
habits, residence and person were all known
to the police, but who got off in spite Of
| them. 1t was well done that Bridge bust
ness, ne continued nan cIoSiDg MS eyes,
and with the tone of critic who dilates on
a masterpiece, SO Italian beyond doubt.
few months later, and the shells of the
Orsini burst in front of the Opera House.
Such plans didn't bear interruption. The
police are powerless before associations,
where the tie is strong Good day." he adj
ded, after pause. .If don't call on you,
as hope you will permit me to do at times,
| / bfraly ,rrvf1l
/ lice reports in few days"
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