The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-04-14
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as to Jimmy, I'm rather glad you start
cd the conversation In that direction
because I'm going to ask you to NEE
him today"
"oh, but l couldn't" she began.
You are thinking of what happened
on the night the viii was read? Well
you must forget that. Jimmy has the
Key to the verse. and it 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-
pldation, 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 p~reliminaries, Jimmy
showed the contents of the packet. He
did not explain to the girl by what
means be a come into possession Of
them.
OF all these papers," began Jimmy.
tapping the letter before him, only one
Is or II service, and 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
q few words in Reale's characteristic
hand.
Angel read.
The word of five letters I will use,
namely:
!. White every "a sec.
2. Fixed white and red.
). White group two every 80 sec.
:. Group occ. white red sec, so sec.
.: Fixed white and red"
1TnsaryA1- y 49,
too easy"
The detectives brows were ben: in
perplexity.
Tn blessed If I can see where the
easiness comes in" he said ITO me it
seems so much gibberish, ard as diff
cult as the other"
Jimmy noted the detectives bewil-
derment with q quiet smile Of satisfac-
ton. He did not look directly at the
girl. but out of the corner of his eyes
he could see her eager young face bent
over the card, her pretty forehead
IN q ~despairing attempt to de-
cipher the curious document.
Yet it was easy he said, land IL
Reaie had stuck TO that word, the safe
would nave been opened by now"
Angel pored over the mysterious clue.
The word, as far as l can gather"
said Jimmy, lis 'smock,' but it may be
How on earth" began Angel in
alnazement.
oh. it's easy" said Jimmy cheer
fully, land l am surprised that an old
traveller like yourself should have
It,"
Group occ. white red sec. 80 sec.,"
read Angel.
Jimmy laughed.
1t was the first time the girl has seen
this strange man throw aside his hab-
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unaccountable satisfaction that he was
decidedly handsome when amused.
Let me translate 1t for you," said
Jimmy. Let me expand 1t into. Group
occulting White with Red Sectors every
80 Seconds Now do you understand"
Angel shook his head.
You may think 1 am shocktngly
dense.' he said frankly, but even with
your lucid explanation I am still in
dark"
Jimmy chuckled.
Suppose you went to Dover tonight
and sat at the end of the Admiralty
pier. 1t Is a beautiful night, with stars
IN the sky, and you are looking to-
France, and you seq"
Nothing" said Angel slowly: "a
ships lights. perhaps, and the flash
Of the Calais lighthouse"
The occulting sash? 2" suggested
The occ.! By Jove!"
Glad you see It," said Jimmy brisk
y. VIVA old Reaie did was to take the
names Of five famous lights-any nau-
Lical almanac will give them:
Sanda.
Milford Haven.
Orkneys.
Caldy Island.
Kinnaird Head.
They form an acrostic and the in
1affnrc frrp, II. -,--1 -, -.
It was too easy-and too hard. because
here are two or three lights, partic-
llarly the fixed lights, that are exact
~ the same, SO he dropped that idea"
Anger breathed an admiring sigh.
Jimmy, you're a wonder" he said
simply.
Jimmy. busying himself amongst
II am very human" he thought, and
annoyed at the discovery.
Now we come to the more impor-
Lant clue" he sid, and smoothed a
paper on the table.
This, l believe. to have a direct
bearing on the verse"
Then three heads came close tosether
the scrawled sheet,
"A picture of a duck, which means
L" spelt Angel, land that's erased: and
1t is a snake that means t.
Jimmy nodded.
In Reale's verse;" he said deliberate
~, there are six words; outside of
those six words I am convinced the
verse has no meaning. Six words
together. and each word in CAP.
Listen"
Continued Next Weekly
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