The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-06

the IOurJn with ID, ana so on untll II
is reached. Any amateur may build
up his square of letters in this way.
There must be a secret key word
which Is known to the senders and
the receivers. The keyword is writ
ten out repeatedly and the message
Is written beneath it. Instead of US
ing the letters of the message, the
letters OF the keyword are used. This
is the first puzzling translation. The
message as 1t then appears Is taken to
the square of letters. In writing 1t as
1t Is ultimately to be sent, its letters
are found in the top line of the square
and also in the perpendicular line
that runs down it's side. The lines
of letters that radiate from these
margins, one horizontally and one per-
pendicularly. meet ct some point with
in the square. The letter upon which
they meet Is used in the message. No
one in the world without his square
of letters and without the keyword
can read this message.
So the home government was in
formed that Special Agent William H.
Gard might communicate with its
ships by means of the confederate
cipher and that the keyword, rather
strangely, was Russian whiskers."
The home government transmitted
this information to its battleships ly-
ing off Mexico and their operators
were instructed to pick up any wire
less that might come to them out of
the Atlantic.
Gard hurried back to Hamburg just
in time to sail on the Esmiranga. He
was not cure but that the big Rus
sian would communicate with the
Mexican representatives and ap-
preached the situation he had devel-
oped with no little misgiving. 1t ap-
peared that his conclusion that the
Russian had made a getaway with
much swag was correct. He was warm
ly received by both Mckay and
Sanchez and the ship got away with
bat one difficulty facing them. The
Mexican consul was returning to his
native land aboard it.
Gard realized that, as the confiden-
tial representative of Huerta, he could
not with impunity have anything to
do with Sanchez, as that volatile Latin
would Immediately lead him into
much talk of Mexican men and condi-
tions. Gard knew almost nothing
about Mexico City and could not even
sustain a casual conversation on that
subject.
1t was because of these considera-
lions that the apparently genial dis
position of the supposed purchaser of
munitions of war proved disappoint-
ment to Senior Sanchez. This Russian
was evidently no sailor. He took to
his cabin as soon as the Esmiranga
took to sea. His sea manners were
also far from Latin for he answered
with cultural oaths any inquiries that
were made as to the condition of his
health. He seemed to have gone on
a mad debauch and insisted that a
constant procession of highballs be
sent to his stateroom. He cut Senior
Sanchez dead when he met him on
the deck. Caramba! A beast of a
man was this, to be Stunned as the
plague.
The captain and the wireless opera
tor were tho only individuals with
whom this disagreeable shipmate had
anything to do. To the captain it was
made plain that situation existed
off Mexico. The ships of those pigs
of Americans were blockading Vera
Cruz They might blockade but they
had no right to stop German ship
bound for that port. But he must talk
to his principals in Mexico. There
was the wireless of the Esmiranga,
and there was his secret cipher which
no Yankee could read. Might the op-
orator handle his messages?
To be sure. The representative of
the Mexican government which was to
pay handsomely for the transportation