The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-29

symbols Our alphabet contains twenty
six letters. Presenting Juan wrote -
English he would hardly use all the let.
ters In a short message. X. z. ~. and
probably would not be needed mucfi.
In whatever languag sc II he wrote. the
cryptogram Is very short e
Your reasons for that statement. my
wise youth? r. said Give.
Eat once The symbols cannot rep,
resent separate words. l nave oHi ,.;.e
to count the '2s and S. for that looks
to me like a longitude and latitude on
the face OF It, The symbols cannot DO
words. for how could the same words pc
repeated twenty-three times, as IN the
anchors case. and similarly In the case
Of the cannon ~ \, j,
R''True. old chap, and cl 1llt,fler'
laughed Give.
"rherefore they must each represent
some letter, and therefore the writing
Is short. Cali the total number. OF let
ters 213, and allow the small average .oi
i've letters to each word. Five divides
Into 213 forty-two times. with three over.
am sure there cannot be more than
fifty words In the cypher all toid.
"Now to weed 1t down." went on
Hector. wen start backwards. Tho
moon. nag, ship. and 1872 occur least fire.
uuently, and letters seldom frequent IN
written and spoken English are y. p. y
2, and also on odd occasions me fHeE
comes five times, the galloWs sew seven u
| These may DO m and {.
ITO continue, tho letter occurring
most frequently is g, another Is T. ana
and are fond Of coming together.
thousands OF words begin st. as In stag.
| sting, etc. and end st or Is. Look at
| the parchment. The cannon appears
! twenty-five times. the anchor twenty
three Which OF these Is e: Examine !,
carefully.i You will notice how frequently
the anchor and the dancing Niger come
together. and how rarely cannon ana
niger meet S and t are brothers, SO
to speak. and In my view we must ca'l
the cannon e, and the Niger and anchor
"And now we want more vowels, but
before that there is#another letter tnht
appears seventeen times, and sun an
other eighteen times. These Will be con-
sonants. we fancy we have found 8 and
t, and we need not worry about V, p, g.
and XIV, 2, m, n. That leaves us with
d and k. I give the pam to q, Cali tho
cross. d, then. and the mans head r..
1--WE are narrowing the question down
now. The fish and the tclescops a. -.
equal with twelve. and the cross SWORDS
90 one better: the stag's head comes
newt with eleven repetitions Which is
n. q. g or h? and h,blike 8 and I. arc
| fond OF each other. do any symbols e*-
| cent the Niger and anchor como To-
| eether here with any frequency mo
| stag and cross swords 40 several .','es'
wen chance 1t and call then, and H.
"Now We nre left with the telescope,
skull. nsh. and tho figure IT, Telescope
and fish are certain to be novels. and
n ,r l the coff,n is o. The Is in that
| event will be consonant. is lt " n v
=, X, y, m or n? M or certainly Ihat
brings us to three symbols and :, .
| arc moro common. as rule' t''"i' : >''
the coffin !" 49,, vic
class and the baronet gave him n nod
OF approval ~ 80.
ITO make our alphabet. 50 tar we
have done this. though We may NC
wrong. have written It down.
Fish represents .,.,..,....'::'''''' y,
re "A no pe VIA, about tn. lighthouse, old
chnp?" Interrupted Olive. hl' mas u
"Hane It! thought I'D missed some.
! thing. It is rcreated eleven times Nhat
haven't we got?"
IAN !: your old nlphnbe1 doesn . SEN
TO corfaln one" said Give, glancine at
his notes. IT, it,.
Hector added the letter to MS u.s.
which WINS now as follows:
Fish .......,.... ........,'.'''''' -, ~ =
Telescope ,..,...,,. ''''t'''' - ~ -
Flag ...,.,,.,.,.,.fi.,,'' .,''s''''' =
Noon ,,,.,,,,. ..,,,;'''''''''' or NJ
Skull ,,.,--,.,...,# ',''''''''''d y
| x ...,.,.,,.,...., 1850 '''''''''
/ Cannon .,..,.,.,.....'.' ''i'''
Galows ....,.....,.... ......,'',
| Stays head and cross swords.' gh
| Coffin ....,,,.,.,. G.,..''''''' !, -
Blowing whale .,.,...,.,.,,'.,,.,, H., -, , w. -
or any Of the little used letters
lighthouse ,,.,.,..,,'' $500. I'm
Barrel '-,'.,,' '.'',t''''''' n
Is ,,,,.',.'.,,.. ..,.,',t'''' ;.
| Mans head ,.,.. ...,,.,','''f''' g,
Niger and anchor .,.'',,'''' or ~
Knife .,.,,.,.,..... .',' $1,000 =,
Pistol .,..,....... .,,'.i':'ff'' "
IL 2 and ? repeated ..,,'.s''i''f - - ~
z, &c.
cllye examined the list i orooa ely
contained many minor plan a ,,a ~
Dane. unlike Give. always H a. sh,n,
at things In n hot-headsa - '' raot,sod
minor hlinder could easily % 49,
Juan Gaskarn could hardy "a r,,l,n =,
expected TO achieve anything LINN Wv,
The two great points were tns" ,,.a ,n .
their method the right one NJ nav ~
Ole corsnir written In Englsn ,.s, :,
NOW to put our alphabet ~ ,,, ~
said Hector, his face glowing, W. ~ 81
citement 20 or W for the shuil. ~ =
and'b and p for the others sSes w
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