St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-09

beheld him enter the room with such 4
triumphant air that he could not help ex-
claiming =.
''Halloo! what is up? Take care of
yOurselfl You are not so clever in hiding
your delight as you are your grief, and
you'll betray yourself, if"
shut up" answered Sareany, ''and to
work without losing a minute"
Before we teed?"
Before we feed?''
And then Sarcany picked up a card of
moderate thickness. He cut it according to
his tracing. So as to obtain grating of the
exact shape of his copy, not forgetting the
little cross, which showed the right end up
permOst Then he took rule and divided
his rectangle into thirty-six squares, all of
equal size. Then of these thirty-six squares.
nine were marked as they appeared ON the
tracing, and cut out with the point of pen
knife so as to show through them, when
applied to the message. whatever signs or
letters were to be read.
Zirone sat facing Sarcany, and watched
him as he worked. He was deeply inter-
eSted in the performance, because he thor
Oughly understood the system of cryptOg-
raphy employed in the correspondence.
Now that is ingenious, he said, ''highly
ingenious, and may be of some use! When
think that each of those empty squares
may perhaps hold a million of money"
''And mOrer said Sarcany.
The work was at an end. Sarcany rose
and put the cut card into his pOcket-bOok.
1.-The first thing tomorrow morning 1
call on TOronthal." he said.
keep an eye on his caSh-box."
IF he has the message, L have the graf
mgr
'.And this time he will have to give it
up"
''He will give it up"
sand now we can feed?"
''We can feed"
''COme on, then"
And ZirOne, always bleSt with a healthy
appetite, did full justice to the excellent
meal he had, according to his custom, pre-
yiOusly ordered.
In the mOrning-it was the 1St of June
at s O'Clock, Sarcany presented himself at
the bank, and TOronthal gave orders for
him to be shown into the Office immedi-
ately.
There is the grating" was all that Sar-
cany said as he laid the card on the table.
The banker took it, turned it round and
round. jerked his head first to one side,
then the other, and did not seem at all to
snare in the confidence of his associate.
LET us try it." said Sarcany.
well. We'll try it."
Toronthal took the fac-simile of the mes
sage from one of the drawers in his desk
and laid it on the table.
1t may be recOllected that the message
was composed of eighteen words, each con-
tanning six letterS-and words perfectly I'M
Ineligible. 1t was obvious that each letter
ought TO correspond with square of the
card; and consequently that the six first
words of the message, composed of thirty
six letters, must have been obtained by
means of the thirty-SiX squares.
And in the grating the arrangement of the
blank squares had been so ingeniOusy
thought of, that for every quarter turn
that is, for the four times the blank squares
changed their pOsition-they never came
twice in the same place.
1t will be seen that this must be so. for if
at the first application of the grating on
white paper the figures TO are inscribed
in each blank space, and then, after a quar-
ter turn, the figures 10 to IS, then, after
another quarter turn, the figures % to SO, it
will be found that no square has two num-
bers, and that each Of the thirty-siX
squares is filled in. Sarcany very naturally
began on the first six words of the message,
intending to make four successive applica-
tons of the grating. He then thought of
treating the next six, and then the six finals
in the same way, and thus use up the
eighteen words of the cryptOgram.
1t need scarcely be said that Sarcany had
told TorOnthal what he intended to do, and
that the banker had approved of the plan.
Would the practice confirm the theory?
Therein lay all the interest of the expert
ment.
The eighteen words of the message were