Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-03-17

sentence nan nScarued WIS r. I counted
sevcn words on from .'your" and camc 70
diamond. treated this word in sim
liar way to the last two and continued the
process. ''Got your diamond" Now Tor
ssbracelct." The next figure was Q.
came to bracelet"
was moro excited than I can describe.
There Is scarcely anything In the world
that flls man with such exultation as
success, and I was on the track Of sue
cess: "Got your diamond bracelet" Tho
following figure was g. counted on nine
and came to the word "hack." ''Got your
diamond bracelet back I continued.
The next figure was 1. This was repre-
sented by the word 'T." The next figure
was 4, represented by the word ''won."
The next figure was 8, represented by tho
word -four" The next figure was 8, rep
resented by the word hundred" con.
tinued tho same process and came back to
the figure 0, represented by tho word
''on." The next figure was ., repre-
sented by the word cherry"
stopped here for reason and read
the words had crossed out and written
on separate sheet Of paper. They ran
4 thus:
/ "Got your diamond bracelet back.
won 400 on Cherry"
It was not without distinct reason
that / paused here. Mixing with the
world and moving In all shades and classes
OF society, must confess--as have no
doubt other men would confess II they
were thoroughly ingenuous--to certain
( weaknesses, one Of which Is to put q sov-
creign or two seldom more upon every
classic horse race, and upon every i'm
portant handicap during tho year. I
nearly always lose--and serve me right.
But 1t happened, strangely enough, that In
this very month Of September, during
which Eustace Rutland sent his mysteri-
Gus communication to his sister Mabel,
one OF the most celebrated handicaps at
the year wns won by horse named
Cherry, and that had two sovereigns on
that very horse. 1t started at long odds.
I remembered that the bet made was
two sovereigns to a hundred, and that
had won what Is often called century
upon the race. I was convinced that
had come to the legitimate end Of Eustace
Rutland's letter: "Got your diamond
bracelet back. won 400 on Cherry"
This young reprobate, then, was in.
dulging in horse racing. His sister Mabel
had written to him an account OF the
scene between herself and her father al
the dinner party. She had given him her
diamond bracelet to extricate him from
some scrapc, and he had been luckily ena
bled, by his Investment on the horse
Cherry, to redeem it-most likely from
the pawnbroker--in time for his sister to
exhibit it to her father. So as to be GER
tain that had got the proper clew, and
had arrived at the gist Of Eustace's com
munication, I wrote down the words that
remained, which were:
"Birds -the-the-in-arc--the--- trees
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES"
1t was IN easy task now for me to ap-
ply the same test to these remaining
words, and found that they formulated
themselves in this fashion;
"The river runs gayly. The birds are
singing in tho trees"
l was curious to ascertain whether there
were any special sign in the framework Of
Eustace Rutland's communication by
which the person engaged with him in
the mystery letter could be guided.
counted the words in each sentence. The
words in the first sentence were nine-the
nine Of hearts. The number Of words in
the second sentence was eleven. The
number Of words in the third sentence
was eleven. After tho alphabetical letter
A in the framework saw the figure IL,
and I was satisfied, the last eleven words
being meaningless, that 1t was the second
sentence of eleven words, referring to the
diamond bracelet and TO his winning on
Cherry, that Eustace wished his sister
Mabel to understand. At the Same time
| ! was satisfied in my own mind that,
| without the nine Of hearts to guide him,
man might spend days over the crypto-
graph without arriving at tho correct
| solution.
had taken no count Of the passing
time. Engrossed and absorbed in my oc-
| cupation, was surprised, when it had
| reached what believed to be q successful
termination, to find that 1t was nearly SIX
/ O'Clock in the morning ~