The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-07-26


"who very probably sold out their
process inside Of an hour after trans
acting business with the war depart
ment." Pinkwell interjected.
mo. Hardly. Because" and Will
kins almost snorted as he forced out
the words-'1 personally invented the
latest cipher used--cooked It up from
ancient Greek, my old college trigo-
nometry and sixty words Of the Co
manche tongue, learned when | spent
vacation at Fort Sill. You'd think
that would be some cipher, Billy, some
cipher. 1t held them for two days
then found good evidence that 1t had
been translated"
by whom, and for whom7"
BILLY. there's the toughest problem
in the whole blamed affair l can't
even state. definitely, which govern
ment to accuse All l know is that
our army orders, our Mexican policy.
and | don't know what else besides
are being continually relayed to an
unfriendly power, and can't actually
name the power"
THE process of elimination" said
the old detective, slowly, Should cas-
lily demonstrate, the location Of the
leak. and the power to which such
a leak is valuable. Which do you
really figure in the equation-yellow
men or wooden shoes?"
yellow men or wooden sh- oh
blazesl" snapped the chief 81 am
slow thinker today. Probably at all
J times, or | could have ended this whole
business without calling for outside
help. AS you are perfectly aware,
there are fifty reasons why Germany
would be glad to keep In touch with
our Mexican policy, and would pay
well for our secret ciphers, Then. If
you look at 1t in another light, there
are just as many reasons for Japan
to grasp every chance Of keeping close
watch upon our troops, our naval
movements and our general dealings
with all other nations. | can't FIX 1t
rightly can't definitely assert that
there is a Gordon Of Japanese spies
from here to Los Angeles, with an In
telligence bureau which can both OBJ
tain and interpret every cipher we
have ever constructed Neither can
say that there is German system of
the same pattern--I am, as yet, beau
tifully checked at all points. l have
only this moral certainty: Nothing
gees out Of Washington concerning
the movements of fleets or armies
without heavy risk of transcription
and Interpretation by our enemies
There are only two avenues open
you can easily guess them both"
EITHER find the leak~-or devise a
cipher that even a Japanese or Ger
man scientist cannot take apart and
reassemble."
The chief nodded emphatically
'Tf we found the leak. we would
stop the source of information-for 6
little while. II we devised an unde
cipherable cipher, we could make
monkeys of either kaiser or mikadC
until our plans had matured. and oul
; hands could not be forced on ethel
the Atlantic or Pacific. After that
we could ferret out the leak at lei
sure" e
Exactly" aGsentcd Pinkwell. "Thel
you think 1t would be best for m!
Office to make some sort of blum a
digging up the guilty parties. Will
you devote your energies to the con
struction of cipher that not eveI
such a man as-well. we will sa!
Won Schimmel-could possibly Olsen
. tangle?"
The chiefs nod was more emphati
: than before.
"a have thought Of asking the secre
tary of war and the secretary Of tn