Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-04-22

as 70 Jimmy, I'm rather glad you start
ed the conversation in that direction,
because I'm going to ask you to meet
him today"
"Oh, but l couldn't" she began.
You are thinking OF what happened
on the night the will was read? Well,
you must forget that. Jimmy has the
key to the verse, and 1t is absolutely
imperative that you should be present
this afternoon"
With some demur, she consented.
In the sitting-room Of Jimmy's fiat
the three sat around a table Uttered
with odds and ends of papers.
The girl had met him with some tre-
pidation, and his distant bow had done
more TO assure her than had he dis
played a desire to rehabilitate himself
IN her good opinion.
without any preliminaries, Jimmy
showed the contents Of the packet. He
did not explain to the girl by what
means be had come into possession of
them.
"Of all these papers," began Jimmy,
tapping the letter before him, only n
Is Of any service, n even that makes
confusion worse COMPOUNDED. Reale had
evidently had this cursed cryptogram
in his mind for a long time. He had
made many experiments, and rejected
many. Here is one"
He pushed over a card, which bore
a few words in Reale's characteristic
hand.
Angel read.
The word OF five letters 1 will use,
namely:
l.. White every "a sec.
2. Fixed white and red.
3. White group two every 80 sec.
4. Group occ. white red sec. 80 sec.
5. Fixed white n red"
Underneath was written: mo good;
too easy"
The detectives brows were bent in
perplexity.
I'm blessed If / can see where the
easiness comes ill.," he said ITO me 1t
seems so much gibberish, and as diff
cult as tine other"
Jimmy noted the detectives bewil-
derment with a quiet smile of satisfac-
ton. He did not look directly at the
girl, blu out of the corner Of his eyes
he could see her eager young face bent
over the card, her pretty forehead
wrinkled in a d~espairing attempt to de-
the curious document.
Yet 1t was easy" he said, and If
Reale a stuck to hat word, the safe
would have been opened by now"
Angel pored over the mysterious clue.
The word, as far as l can gather"
said Jimmy, lis 'smock,' but 1t may be
How on earth" began Angel in
amazement.
'Oh, it's easy" said Jimmy cheer
fully, and l am surprised that an old
traveller like yourself should have
nisled it."
Group occ. white red sec. 80 sec.,"
read Angel.
Jimmy laughed.
1t was the first time the girl has seen
his strange man throw aside his hab-
tual restraint, and she noted with an
lnaccountable satisfaction that he was
decidedly handsome when amused.
Let me translate Il for ycu," said
Jimmy. Let me expand 1t into. Group
'cculting White with Red Sectors every
70 Seconds Now do you understand"
Angel shook his head.
you may think I am shockingly
he said frankly, "but even with
,our lucid explanation 1 I'm still in
he dark"
Jimmy chuckled.
Suppose you went to Dover tonight
md sat at the end of the Admiralty
,ier. 1t is a beautiful night, with stars
n the sky. and you are looking to-
yard France. and you seq"
Nothing" said Angel slowly: "a
ships lights, perhaps, and the flash
# the Calais lighthouse"
1.-THE occulting lash?" suggested
Jimmy.
THE occ.! BY Jove!"
"Glad you see it," said Jimmy brisk
y. What old Reale II was to take the
of five famous lights-any nau-
ical almanac will give them:
Sanda.
Milford Haven.
Orkneys.
Caldy Island.
Kinnaird Head.
49,,
They form AN acrostic and the in
tial letters form the work 'smock:' but
I was too easy-and too hard. because
here are w or three lights, partic-
Ilarly the fixed lights, hat are exact
y the same, so he dropped that idea"
Angel breathed an admiring sigh.
Jimmy, you're a wonder" he said
simply.
Jimmy, busying himself amongst
he papers, stole a glance at the girl.
II am very human" he thought. and
vas annoyed at the discovery.
Nov we come to the more impor-
.ant clue" he lid. and smoothed a
,rumpled paper on the table.
This, ] believe. to have a direct
on the verse"
Then three heads came close together
the scrawled sheet.
"A picture of a duck, which means
spelt Angel. land that's erased; and
1t is a snake that means t."
Jimmy nodded.
I'm Reale's verse" he said deliberate
Nv, there are six words; outside of
those six words / am convinced the
verse has no meaning. Six words
strung together, and each word In cap
Listen"
Continued Next Week.
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