Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-05-26

tried the fifth letter forward. Accord
ing to that rule, would be p would
be a; (making a follow ~ would be c.
Next comes d, which would be i /; then
n, which would be s-the true letter
being always the fifth letter from the
cipher forward. Follow ii out. gentlemen,
and see foryourselves.' 2"
| did as he babe me. And the cipher
read letter by letter, as follows, with the
peculiar spelling OF the name Of the tes-
tatrix and ali
GPxns wGDTsDov JwDNi 1T
LCCis BRIDGITA oBIgS Ny
IDzxz.
NIECE.
There was no more doubi that the |
cipher was this than it was My dear
nephew, Firentz St-ldl. Il meant 10th |
equally and both at the same time
put it to every cryptologist in the /
world. is it within the bounds Of creii- |
bility that cipher Of 25 letters should /
he r-adibl- in two exactly opposite. and !
inconsistent ways. and that it, two ire !
coneilable solutions should be gained by |
following two siIup principles, 10th |
equally obvious aud equally sound In.
eredibie-nay, impossible will b the |
unanimous answer. AMI vet the impo>-
sible, by s marvellous cham Of coinci- !
dencrs. was effected in ihst will OF Miss
MollOy. She c0nld not Intentionally
have brought about such a result. even If
she had tried. The for thu : in f-rrnIL
or rather FirentI. left no nom for doubt
that Withers' solution was tine. un the
other hand, the peculiar spelling Of
Briigita was an ansWerable argument
in favor II Mr. Higgins. Wiih-r> had
started on the principle which has amused
- many readers Of bigar Poe, and Is in
itself a perfectly true and sound one.
Higgins had started on the principle
iayOr,ei by simpi-,ons who correspond IN
,iph-r in the agony Of columns, AID
imagine tina; their silly s-,r-ts are Hoi
| oy--n to znyl,cdy who takes i've minui-=
trouble to Rad them.
What was 10 r. done-noN
Clearly th- situation xas no; realized by
either Of the fathers Of the rival l--Ale->.
| But q gloom came over th. far Ut Mr..
Wiihers. He took up the paper ou which
Ar. Higgins had written his solution and
Examined it iui-n;iy.
| No sane woman would have a-ei
.ugh simple ,iphrs As ih4;. said liz.
| Il i Just the solution ihsi Seuli -aii,i.
an amateur.
True, said Nj. Hisgin, With = ,l.-h,
,n-er ''lurytn-n ar il the position =;
amateurs believe. and jlie--. TO.
A cipher An p; - ;~n solutions
aid M. Wiihers, throwing the Vzs-t
toEn.
True again. ,Aii NJ higgins.
Happily for MIS- y birn.
| Have Won .iudi--I ery5:el".y :
-ci,.uc- NJ. Higgins - ask-.i Nj. Wiih-r-
With a xild effort st elaborate courtesy.
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with no prrt-Ils- 81 ooari->y a. al. 80. i
= son - NJ se3snc- @; Azul writing
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