The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27

You are surely an unusual girl,
said.
Never mind the compliments.
please" she returned, rais!'g her
| glass. but listen:
Yesterday this days madness did
Tomorrows silence. triumph, or de?
spair:
Drink.-for you know not whence
yo' came, nor why:
Drink!-for lou know no. why you
so. nor here
We drank-and then at her sug
gestion l poured another glass.
Those lines !, quoted are from
The ruhaiyat,' " she explained.
This all Greek to me- l said;
still l surely like the idea as ex-
pressed.
.Y~u're Out i Place"
You'll understand l,; all such na t hines
much better than l do
I did not answer that 1 was sud
| denly SO swept with the inconsistency
of tn whole situation that | wished
to unload my thoughts in full and
| perhaps Sc her no more.
Violet" said l. bringing my face
| close to the bars and speaking IN
little more than a whisper, this won't
do. You are out place mere, ana
as much as l appreciate and long Tor
your coming, you must give IL up
| We can't think of anything like we
spoke of the othe- day. Whit If. i'll
an attempted hold-up by persons you
| have in mind, jaile: or some other
person should be killed? That would
| not only involve you on a murder
| charge, but if it came out-wh1ch 1t
would-that l was in on 1T, 1t would
simply hurry my own trial along to
| the place of sure execution Ihen
there's always danger of treachery
on the part of someone you might
take into your confidence-look at
my partner and what he did. II one
| of those tried to take me out OF mere
should get dangerously wounded
| he'd just tell the whole thing when
found-and he'd be ound, too. IL
this wero a regular Jail building
where I might get near tn; Jailer
while he was at the locked doors l
| could take un and do the work
myself-or take a try at it; but as It
is. and particularly on your account
1 simply can't think of going on
with it in that way.
She looked at me thoughtfully for
a moment Il didn't know you could
talk so WE'LL" she laughed softly.
The wine must be warming you up
some But 1. too, have changed my
former views I'm willing-not only
Wiling but most desirous of ito
try to get you out through these two
sets of bars t. the outside there. Is
there any chance OF that? Surely 1
could manage to get you out of the
country
I listenel to her plans for helping
me in the event of my escape from
the building, and they seemed I'M
usually feasible.
o o o
The Code Message.
I explained about the receipt at the
bank of that money from home, and
from
it over to my attorney It'll we found
out whether or not our plans were
going to work; moreover, that arte.
| was entirely in the clear-if l
should reach that stage-I would
write my home-folk, and they could
recover the money.
That's WELL" she returned; but
the question now is. where and
how am get the steel saws FOR
you that will cut these things?" She
| tapped the bars with the tips O. her
fingers.
I know the where and the how" 1
answered. "brt the place is nearly
two hundred miles from here. and
you'd have to make the trip in per-
son, of course"
1 waited.
Go on" she urged, have the
time and the railroad fare and then
some; and I'm anxious to spend It
all If necessary"
d
inside, we'll back out OF sight. I'll
write a message to be given to
certain man." mentioned the town.
I'll write it in code"
wrote: 22-15-45 X 21-35-514S
ssss.s s1 sassi5 ss-s ~
1881. XXXXX-13-5 So xXXXXN.
What does it all mean"' Violet
asked rs that actually MESSAGE"
1t is message" l an:wsred, And
if you hand that to him men
toned the name-"it will bring the
instruments we want for this"
She studied the numbers for
moment. Translate 1t for me. won't
you?
NO, that's not necessary" I told
her. I'll do the translating some
day in the future
The code Explained. o
Here, however. 1 will translate it
for the reader. Notice this combi-
nation of letters:
+ g l J
k m n
pq ri t
wv WY
want to write Are you ready~
first horizontal lines first letter.
first Of the first; that is, one-one, or
II. To make the "r" it would be
necessary to use the fourth lines
third letter. which would be 43; and
for the re" we should have to use
the first lines fifth letter, which
combination of first" and fifth
would be written numerically is.
The word ARE" would then have
to be written 11-43-15. And SO on
with the next two words, causing the
whole question. Are you ready?" to
be written-with an TX" between
each word-11-43-15 x 55-34-51
43-15-1 IL -14-o5.
BY that same code it will be seen
that sent by Violet Grey a message
that reads as follows:
Get four brs for this girl-she is
o. k"
The hrs" was a contraction of the
word briars. meaning what l. known
as briar steel saws, which are very
thin. Of various lengths-I wanted
them some fiv- inches long. They
are made OF high class steel.
DO you want me to call on him
the first thing?" she inquired.
Yes. and after 1 get them and
find out whether or not they'll do the
work, then we could plan further"
"TlI Leave Tonight"
"Ill leave at 1855 tonight-this
very night" she declared, tucking the
closely folded paper into her bosom.
We drank to it and / poured the
remaining wine into thin cup in
the cell while she planted" the
empty bottle out of sight in one OF
those unoccupied Ills to my left.
At the expiration of the half hour
she and Fred's wife departed.
had no way Of telling whether
or not Violet had been abe to leave
on that 11:5 train. The train would
be duo a. the town to which she was
going at 7:15 Thursday morning.
Granting that she could meet my old