The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-12-18
value thatis toeaysb meantb - meant
o. etc. Bhtthe letters ore srccessively

O,seJc.s but she letters ore successfully.
transpoSed in accordance with the OPEN
ings of q grating, which, laid on the
message, only allowed such letters to
appear as were to be read. and hid oil
the others.
These gratings are an old invention,
but having been greatly improved by
Colonel Fleissner they seem now to
offer the best and surest means of OBJ
tanning an indecipherable cryptogram.
In all the other systems of inversion,
be they systems with an invariable base
Or simple key in which each letter is
always represented by the same letter or
sign; be they systems with a variable
base or double key in which the alpha
bet varies with each letter. the security
! is incomplete. Experienced decipher-
ers are capable of performing perfect
with the aid of the calculation of proba-
bilities, or by merely trying and trying
until they succeed. Ali that has to be
done is to find out the letters in the or
der of their repetition in the cryptogram
&C being that most frequently employed
in English, German and French, in
Spanish, q i'll Russian and and in
ltallan-and the meaning OF, the text is
soon made clear And there are very
few cryptograms based on these methods
which defy investigat on. ..
1t would appear, therefore that the
best guarantee for 1ndecipherability IS
afforded by these eratines, or by ciph-
cred dietionaricF- codes, that is to say,
or yocabularies i'll which certain words
represent fully formed sentences indi-
Gated by the page number. But both
these systems have one grave drawback;
| they require absolute secrecy on the
part of those that use them, and the
greatest care that the books OF apparatus
should never get into undesirable hands.
/ Without the grating, or the code, the
message VIII remain unread but once
these are obtained the mystery vanishes.
Il WAS then by means of grating
that is to say Il piece of card cut out in
certai n places-that the correspondence
| between Sandorf and his accomplices
was carried on, but as an extra pre-
caution, i'll case the gratings should be
lost or stolen, every despatch after being
deciphered was destroyed. There thus
remained no trace of this conspiracy in
which the greatest nobiemen and mag
mates of Hungary were risking their
lives in conjunction with the represr nta-
tive of the middle class and the bulk of
III" people
Zathmar had just burned his last de-
spatch when there came a quiet knock
at the study door. ....... ....
1t was Borik introducing Count Ma
thias Sandorf, who had walked up from
the nearest railway station.
Zathmar Immediately rose to greet
| him.
Your journey, Matthias ?" asked he
with the eagerness of man who wished
at the outset to find that all was well.
cit was success, Zathmar," an
swered Sandorf 81 have no doubt of
my Transylvanian friends, and we are
certain Of their assistance.
'You let them have the despatch
which came from Pesth three days ago."
asked Bathory.
EYES," said Sandorf eyes, they
have all been cautioned, and they are
all ready. They will rise at the first
signal In two hours we shall be mas
ters of Buda and Pesth, in half day we
shall get the chief comitats on both
sides of the Thesis, and before the day
is out we shall have Pennsylvania and
the rest. And then eight millions of
Hungarians will have regained their in
dependence !'
"And the Diet?" asked Bathory
"Our supporters from the majority"
answered Sandorf. "They will also
form the new Government, to take the
direction of affairs. All will go regularly
and easily, for the comitats, as far as
their administration goes, depend very
little On the crown, and their chiefs nave
the police with ti1el0.
"But the Council of the Lieutenancy
of the Kingdom that the palatine pre-
sides over at Buda?" continued Zath-
mar.
1.-THE palatine and the council at Buda
will Immediately be so placed as to be
unable to do anything"
And unable to correspond with the
Hungarian chancery Mt Vienna?"
Eyes, all our measures are taken for
our movements to be simultaneous, and
thus ensure success.
"Success " said Bathory.
Eyes, success % answered Count San
| dorf. "In the army all of our blood, of
Hungarian blood, are for us ! Where is
the descendant of the ancient Magyars
| whose heart will not beat at the SIGHT of