Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-03-11

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unity OF variety that exists IN au.aatga"d
iuauimate nature
But truce 10 this imaginary colioquy,
aud Lei. me with the readers closest alFeN-
tiou explain the steps by which msde
my ~Cryptogram and reached the great DIS
doy,ry.
IIs must know, then. that / have long
frlt there was something mysterious about
tire JIyls OF ne King l 90 no further
"a present than tins, hat it As lnposSIh!e
Ia tell what / may prove hereafter. d
reason of this feeling is perhaps my iayet-
crate method Of rejecting the pjaln ana Cd
vioas for the cryptic and obscure; and,
when ! shut myself in my cbamgeT, ana
heuan To- pouder with definite purpose up
on the poems, l soon found things TO
strengthen my su-pjcious. Before had
o r. through mauy pages l beard tha pee
pie lift mp their voices as2iust the chld
Arthur,
nAut HuI nor uce uor bearing limits nor voice
Are uS-lD Arthur whom wg knew.
and SO, [ thought, might people at tir,t
cry ont AGAINST the discovery tia: | WIS
resolved 20 make. Bat l was the more
urged on to my task, and / had not pro.
cegied much further before / found in the
'ridlliug triplets OF old time the state
ment that
"A yuusa man viii Zoe wiser hyaud by
The thing began DOW to be plain; there
was q secret hidden, and the pr5scieut
writer Ct .has" lines had foraseecu The hour
when |, in my solitary chamber, should
seek, as he expressed Il, the
Truth. og c'a,lgd OF uakellyt It hg."
Iwaa now like sleuthIourd ia quest
o. his quarry, aud confident, with Gare!h,
thai
This, uLg of mine
Was uuer gold than amy goose uu. lay.
as fall OF my subject, Indeed, IS any goose
egg con BE- full OF meat.
70 may cross The readers mind ut this
p5,us that was riding u hobby to death,
bu' he will see hat n was not 50. What
could be more striking, ! ask, than the
old seer's remark 10 Gareth:
Know geuot tine Bidding %. the Barl,
Confusion and Illusion, and relation,
Illusion. a.. occasion. and evasion
Here, beyond doubt, is The writer mock
ing ~ L!5 read,rs, dancing before theA
like q Will-J' the-whisp. And mark, tie
wosd Is not Bard but "BLrds.' so
/ There was not orc poet hUt two poets in
the mystery, and it Is added:
"Iurt u0g ant uut
I..I ~rrwu-t but know thee who thou arr"
Vow, indeed, there could be no further
doubt. had got the trail Of tae scent,
the confusion and illusion Of two poets,
one CT whom was not what he seemed.
Bu. the scent was exceedingly difficult
end the path OF discovery by inuuend3
and Implication, warned ma also ui those
who deceive themselves.
Eg .,a..r true for false, u- fall. for True.
N.-r -4-N. ,ae feeble twilight of this would
or who
Following wandering fires
I"-. .u the .ss:l.re.
~ times lee would draw the trail Of her.
/ ring Jr-5ss the scent. until grew weary.
0ut wa, tempted 10 CRY ont with PEREZ.
SAB" This Quest is no; ior thee hul
still, liz" that knight ] nEei O. until /
reached til" glorious end.
1 aE coming rapidly to this end. Now,
I hal observed hat though the myst,r-
J0u- writer was lavish in his use OF god,
7 silver, and p~rrciOus stones, OF the blu. sky
aud the green fields, Of purple and violet,
and almost ot every color that giDTiuts the
earth. h. distinctly fought shy OF brown.
/ / prefer 10 write IL with a capital l.. thus.
/ Brown. The woyi Brown is, moreover,
never used without some special siEniu-
canoe in the very few places Of its ocCHT-
renee. / will refer specially u that iu-
stance where Pelleas IN the Forest OF
Dean, lay
Abandon looking yyr. the E-mnn cath
Iarr. tHaf green g.rDu.sJ twilight uI tine
grove"
| Now, mark that ~ was especially looking
over the Blown earth through the green
g'.Dmigy twilight. This is mystery III
deed, II the reader would how count six
s,liablgs from the word Br0arH he Will
reach the utl. When I discovered this
| s,'gable ttct I'm the gloOUIDg twilight
| erred out Eureka l had found the
usur ul Nj. Browning hidden in the
/ piece Ia To- was no mistake ahoD; 1T,
/ tuo ] had found the speaking uuuth,r at
/ me same tIme. This was the number ,,N,
.rol which / inferred the existence Of the
Great CryPtrgram hidden within tn,
poems.
I aholld like the rea6 20 note hsicm nay
I characteristic originality ia taking the
/ commonplace number slN. Any one Ella"
in search of o mystery would have selected
q Mysterious uumber-pcrhaps one, two,
/ tE,.r. seven. OF thirteen. Bat / p-eIcrTtI
90 use the number riN simply because
every ogy would have rejected Il, AID u
has been seen how it lei Ike AZ once to the
a,mc 81 81. Browning
To remains uow 10 tell IN a few words
.nw tda number six was used Tor the de.
. g,Dl-rl9g Of The Great Cry ptogrdm. Ai'er
uumbrr'css trials / hit upon q PERFECTLY
mathematical system which answered,
with uo~iertul results, to M absolute
satisfaction. My plan was to take the
+ number OF each page aud to multiply Ii by
O. or some multiple o. g.. as l., l., or 2i,
sometimes 20 add or deduct t.. or one otit'
multiples. to or from th' r~e.U,ts, or oc'a.
s~i4.slIy tc divide hy t.. Iii could not get
a satisfactory result in this way, would
u>r the halt of 6, which several titay+
hrIped me: .Dr had ~ view the confusion,
illusion. and evasion O. the bIrds. How
eve. Hy one ur the other Of these methods
{ reached q certain uumber which had g
s~t-ir,Iv mathematical relation 20 my tg.
u-e e and. counting FROM the first woId
on each p.ge, ! JGok the word Indicated by
that particular number, d. | hah WORKED
/ IL arl for tire purpose, and noted 10 down
when hat done this with about NV
rq.,s / discovered, as / tad !orescru that
hal q perfectly logical and consecutive
starry. which related, with much carlo.
circumstance, The astounding fact IN.
The TI,Is of the King were written HN
r-.-.f.., was convinced a. once, gut