Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-01-18
CHAPTER VI.
CAN THE CIPHER BE SOLVED ?

were these
II d n p g d u
To the astOnishment of Toronthal and
6aFcany, none of these combinations
gave any sense. They endeavored to
read them conclusively IN the order they
had been obtained, but they proved az
meaningless rs the despatch itself Was
the message to remain indecipherable
The fourth application of the grating
resulted thus
o p SIS
which was as obscure rs the others.
In fact the four words which had been
discovered were
hazrxeirg
nchaledee
nadnepdn
ilruopess
and these manufacturing.
Sarcany could not conceal his rage &C
such disappointment The banker
shook his head, and remarked, in o
slight tone OF irony;
Perhaps that is not the grating I"
Sarcany simply writhed in his chair.
Let US try it again / he said.
"Try again." said Toronthal
Sarcany. having mastered his nervous
agitation, began experimenting on the
SIX words forming the second column of
the message. Four times did he apply
the grating; and these are the four
meaningless words he obtained
amnetnore
velessuot
etseirted
Zerreoncs
This time Sarcany threw the grating
on the table with an oath.
In curious contrast, Toronthal kept
quite cool. lie was carefully studying
the words hitherto obtained, and re-
manned deep in thought
"Confound all gratings and all who
use them p exclaimed Sarcany, rising.
"Sit down." said Toronthal.
"Sit down ?"
"Yes aud go on"
Sarcany gave Toronthal look. Then
he sat down, took the grating, and
applied it to the last six words of the
message, as he had done to the others.
He did it mechanically, as though he
took no interest in what he was doing.
And the words given by the four appli-
cations of the grating we're:
uonsuOveu
glangisre
imerpuate
rptsetuot
That was all. The words we're az
meaningless as the others.
Sarcany, engaged beyond all bounds,
took the paper on which he had written
/ the bnrbarous words which the grating
had yielded, and was about to tear 1t
into tatters, when Toronthal stopped
him.
DO not get excited, he said.
"Eh!" exclaimed Sarcany. what can
you do with an insoluble logograph like
that?"
writ all those words in a line. one
after the other" said the banker.
"And why p
ITO see."
Sarcany obeyed ; and he obtained the
| following
|1errstrg'aohrledecnedaepeclnil,uopessunan
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
! sisreiEsorpuaterptsetuot
The letters had scarcely been written
before Toronthal snatched the paner
from Sarcany and read it and gave a
shout 1t was the hanler who now lost
his head Sarcany thought he had gone
mad
Read = said Toronthal holding ont
the paper to Sarcany. "Readl"
Read y
Yes don't you see that. before they
used the grating, Count Sandorfs cor
respondents wrote the letter backwards ,"
Sarcany took the paper, and this is
what he read, proceeding from the last
to the first:
Tout est pref An premier signal
que vous nous enverrez de Trieste. ton.
Sc leveront en- masse pour l'independ-
ence de Ia Hongrie. Xrzah.
. And the four last letters ?" he asked
. An agreed-upon signature. or some
thing to I'll up. " said ToronthaL
"Oh, them All is ready. At the
first signal ron send ms from Trieste. all
Of us Will Use together for the independ-
ence of Hungary That is it, is It? Well,
we have got them at last
Z" But the police have not got them y
"That is my business"
"You viii act with great secrecyi-
"1'bat is my busin SIS said Sarcany.
THE Governor of Trieste shall be the
only person to know the names of the
two honest patriots who have nipped in
Its bud this conspiracy against the en-
pire of Austria r
And as he spoke, the mockery of each
tone and gesture betrayed the true feel
ing with which he uttered the words
"And nov ] have nothing else 20 do,