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“
Having
once
recognized
,
however
,
that
the
symbols
stood
for
letters
,
and
having
applied
the
rules
which
guide
us
in
all
forms
of
secret
writings
,
the
solution
was
easy
enough
.
The
first
message
submitted
to
me
was
so
short
that
it
was
impossible
for
me
to
do
more
than
to
say
,
with
some
confidence
,
that
the
symbol
XXX
stood
for
E
.
As
you
are
aware
,
E
is
the
most
common
letter
in
the
English
alphabet
,
and
it
predominates
to
so
marked
an
extent
that
even
in
a
short
sentence
one
would
expect
to
find
it
most
often
.
Out
of
fifteen
symbols
in
the
first
message
,
four
were
the
same
,
so
it
was
reasonable
to
set
this
down
as
E
.
It
is
true
that
in
some
cases
the
figure
was
bearing
a
flag
,
and
in
some
cases
not
,
but
it
was
probable
,
from
the
way
in
which
the
flags
were
distributed
,
that
they
were
used
to
break
the
sentence
up
into
words
.
I
accepted
this
as
a
hypothesis
,
and
noted
that
E
was
represented
by
“
But
now
came
the
real
difficulty
of
the
inquiry
.
The
order
of
the
English
letters
after
E
is
by
no
means
well
marked
,
and
any
preponderance
which
may
be
shown
in
an
average
of
a
printed
sheet
may
be
reversed
in
a
single
short
sentence
.
Speaking
roughly
,
T
,
A
,
O
,
I
,
N
,
S
,
H
,
R
,
D
,
and
L
are
the
numerical
order
in
which
letters
occur
,
but
T
,
A
,
O
,
and
I
are
very
nearly
abreast
of
each
other
,
and
it
would
be
an
endless
task
to
try
each
combination
until
a
meaning
was
arrived
at
.
I
therefore
waited
for
fresh
material
.
In
my
second
interview
with
Mr
.
Hilton
Cubitt
he
was
able
to
give
me
two
other
short
sentences
and
one
message
,
which
appeared
—
since
there
was
no
flag
—
to
be
a
single
word
.
Here
are
the
symbols
.
Now
,
in
the
single
word
I
have
already
got
the
two
E
’
s
coming
second
and
fourth
in
a
word
of
five
letters
.
It
might
be
‘
sever
,
’
or
‘
lever
,
’
or
‘
never
.
’
There
can
be
no
question
that
the
latter
as
a
reply
to
an
appeal
is
far
the
most
probable
,
and
the
circumstances
pointed
to
its
being
a
reply
written
by
the
lady
.
Accepting
it
as
correct
,
we
are
now
able
to
say
that
the
symbols
stand
respectively
for
N
,
V
,
and
R
.
“
Even
now
I
was
in
considerable
difficulty
,
but
a
happy
thought
put
me
in
possession
of
several
other
letters
.
It
occurred
to
me
that
if
these
appeals
came
,
as
I
expected
,
from
someone
who
had
been
intimate
with
the
lady
in
her
early
life
,
a
combination
which
contained
two
E
’
s
with
three
letters
between
might
very
well
stand
for
the
name
‘
ELSIE
.
’
On
examination
I
found
that
such
a
combination
formed
the
termination
of
the
message
which
was
three
times
repeated
.
It
was
certainly
some
appeal
to
‘
Elsie
.
’
In
this
way
I
had
got
my
L
,
S
,
and
I
.
But
what
appeal
could
it
be
?
There
were
only
four
letters
in
the
word
which
preceded
‘
Elsie
,
’
and
it
ended
in
E
.
Surely
the
word
must
be
‘
COME
.
’
I
tried
all
other
four
letters
ending
in
E
,
but
could
find
none
to
fit
the
case
.
So
now
I
was
in
possession
of
C
,
O
,
and
M
,
and
I
was
in
a
position
to
attack
the
first
message
once
more
,
dividing
it
into
words
and
putting
dots
for
each
symbol
which
was
still
unknown
.
So
treated
,
it
worked
out
in
this
fashion
:
.
M
.
ERE
.
.
E
SL
.
NE
.
“
Now
the
first
letter
can
only
be
A
,
which
is
a
most
useful
discovery
,
since
it
occurs
no
fewer
than
three
times
in
this
short
sentence
,
and
the
H
is
also
apparent
in
the
second
word
.
Now
it
becomes
:
AM
HERE
A
.
E
SLANE
.
Or
,
filling
in
the
obvious
vacancies
in
the
name
:
AM
HERE
ABE
SLANEY
.
