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  1    1,    1|            who held in his hand the document of which this strange assemblage
  2    1,    1|          who had just reperused the document was but a simple “captain
  3    1,    1|      absorbed in the reading of the document on which his eyes were fixed,
  4    1,    1|        price. It sums up the entire document. It gives their true names
  5    1,    1|            if all the words of this document were paid for at the same
  6    1,    2|            case which contained his document and his fortune, it was
  7    1,    2|           it contained the precious document, the loss of which was irreparable,
  8    1,    2|           natural. How without this document could he get his money?~
  9    1,    2|       across him the thought of his document, the remembrance of all
 10    2,    5|       innocence. They know that the document existed; that it contained
 11    2,    5|            who came before him. The document which Joam Dacosta appealed
 12    2,    5| good-naturedly hand over to you the document for which you have declined
 13    2,    5|       previous conditions. But this document might still be worth a fortune
 14    2,    5|          interest is to sell me the document, which can thus not injure
 15    2,    5|          doubtless to selel you the document—if the document exists.”~“
 16    2,    5|             you the document—if the document exists.”~“If it does not
 17    2,    6|          had said nothing about the document which formed the material
 18    2,    6|             very best price for the document he possessed, the recollection
 19    2,    7|            he been silent about the document which the adventurer pretended
 20    2,    7|           he be certain that such a document was in the rascal’s possession?~
 21    2,    7|          actually existed; that the document had been written by the
 22    2,    7|             the handing over of the document an excuse for extortion.
 23    2,    7|            doubt the existence of a document which Torres was anxious
 24    2,    7|             told us so himself. The document is a complete avowal written
 25    2,    7|             hundred times, yes! The document exists!”~“But Torres does
 26    2,    7|            groaned Benito, “and the document has perished with him!”~“
 27    2,    7|          understand.”~“That was the document!” exclaimed Benito, who
 28    2,    7|            that was left. “But this document; had he not put it in some
 29    2,    7|            to get possession of the document. “Say nothing to my mother
 30    2,   11|          duty of verifying that the document was found within it.”~“Yes,
 31    2,   11|          then, the case contain the document which had been so much sought
 32    2,   11|            so much sought after—the document written in the very hand
 33    2,   11|             have even touched.~“The document! that is the document!”
 34    2,   11|           The document! that is the document!” shouted Fragoso; “that
 35    2,   11|            covered with writing. “A document it really is!” said he; “
 36    2,   11|             of that. It is indeed a document!”~“Yes,” replied Benito; “
 37    2,   11|            Benito; “and that is the document which proves my father’s
 38    2,   11|             as death.~“Because this document is a cryptogram, and——”~“
 39    2,   12|                     CHAPTER XII~THE DOCUMENT~THIS WAS a contingency which
 40    2,   12|           this story are aware, the document was written in a disguised
 41    2,   12|           an exact copy made of the document, and, keeping the original,
 42    2,   12|       passed.~Joam Dacosta took the document and carefully examined it.
 43    2,   12|            felt it to be so. If the document remained indecipherable,
 44    2,   12|          Benito. “There never was a document of this sort yet which could
 45    2,   12|        Torres, the discovery of the document, and the strange form under
 46    2,   12|            shall end by reading the document, and then the innocence
 47    2,   12|             On the discovery of the document, Jarriquez suddenly found
 48    2,   12|             At the thought that the document might perhaps contain the
 49    2,   12|          his mind. He picked up the document and became absorbed in meditation,
 50    2,   12|          success.”~Then, taking the document, he ran through it from
 51    2,   12|  understanding it in the least.~The document contained a hundred lines,
 52    2,   12|            anything to do with this document, his name will evidently
 53    2,   12|       noticed that the lines of the document were not divided either
 54    2,   12|           render the reading of the document more difficult.~“Let us
 55    2,   12|         time. The judge took up the document, and, with his pen in his
 56    2,   12|       possible, therefore, that the document is written in the language
 57    2,   12|             reading of the American document depended only a treasure,
 58    2,   12|       arrive at the solution of the document.~“What did Edgar Poe do?”
 59    2,   12|         language, for I suppose the document is written in Portuguese.
 60    2,   12|       meaning of the letters in the document. He had only to successively
 61    2,   12|           in them that those of the document! It was another series of
 62    2,   13|          work on the indecipherable document, and had come to see Judge
 63    2,   13|            is that, sir?”~“That the document is not based on conventional
 64    2,   13|          answered Manoel, “cannot a document of that kind always be read?”~“
 65    2,   13|            it cannot.”~“And in this document?”~“In this document the
 66    2,   13|            this document?”~“In this document the value of the letter
 67    2,   13|           by finding the key of the document on which the man’s life
 68    2,   13|        think that the basis of this document is a number, or, as you
 69    2,   13|             The magistrate took the document and put it before the eyes
 70    2,   13|             said, “by treating this document in the proper way, that
 71    2,   13|           and I do not——”~“Take the document,” continued Judge Jarriquez; “
 72    2,   13|     hundredth time read through the document.~“Well! study the last paragraph!
 73    2,   13|        proves that the basis of the document is a number. It shows à
 74    2,   13|            much like what is in the document? Well, what is the consequence?
 75    2,   13|          not know the number of the document it remains undecipherable.”~
 76    2,   13|     Jarriquez, “if the lines of the document had been divided into words.”~“
 77    2,   13|             which is the key of the document.”~“Will you explain to me
 78    2,   13|             did have in his hands a document written by the author of
 79    2,   13|             that this paper was the document, and that this document
 80    2,   13|             document, and that this document refers to Joam Dacosta?”~“
 81    2,   13|          prove for certain that the document had anything to do with
 82    2,   13|     Whatever it may be to which the document refers, I have not yet given
 83    2,   14|             of the “indecipherable” document, if we can so call it; the
 84    2,   14|     innocence would appear from the document, was not doubted by anybody,
 85    2,   14|           could be assigned to this document? and how could they even
 86    2,   14|        about Joam Dacosta, that the document was not in the handwriting
 87    2,   14|             most hazardous. If trhe document were not deciphered, it
 88    2,   14|         resolved never to leave the document until he had discovered
 89    2,   14|      magistrate that the key to the document was a number, composed of
 90    2,   14|           before his desk, with the document under his eyes, the thousands
 91    2,   14|          thump with his fist on the document emphasized this charitable
 92    2,   14|            words in the body of the document, I might at least try my
 93    2,   14|             Then he returned to the document.~He picked it up and turned
 94    2,   14|            number the author of the document would have chosen in confessing
 95    2,   14|        first date the author of the document had not rather selected
 96    2,   14|            pa.    ic.~“Confound the document and him who imagined it!”
 97    2,   14|            76223 was the key of the document, and it produced no other
 98    2,   15|         extract the secret from the document on which depended their
 99    2,   15|      probable author of this cipher document, which was supposed to be
100    2,   15|          show that he gave Torres a document in which he announced himself
101    2,   15|         that give us the key of the document? No! Two men only knew the
102    2,   15|        finished by handing over the document. Would not Torres, whom
103    2,   15|      secondary for him. And of this document he had no knowledge when
104    2,   15|        impossibility of reading the document found on him, had thus not
105    2,   15|         much of the mysterious, the document was the principal object
106    2,   15|           sought after—and read the document. This was quite a fortune,
107    2,   15|            general opinion that the document referred to the affair at
108    2,   15|           had had the idea that the document might be read through the
109    2,   15|         gave no result. Perhaps the document read backward, and the last
110    2,   15|            grief—“the cipher of the document.”~“Do you know it, then?”
111    2,   16|            Janeiro the undeciphered document would nave no value whatever,
112    2,   16|             that the mystery of the document would be cleared up, that
113    2,   16|             something new about the document. Benito preferred to remain
114    2,   16|            the same excitement. The document crumpled by his impatient
115    2,   16|            at any moment.”~“And the document?”~“Nothing yet!” exclaimed
116    2,   16|      distinctly see one word in the document—only one!”~“What is that—
117    2,   17|             ever did he mention the document. Whether it were apocryphal
118    2,   18|            Ortega had given him the document in question had now become
119    2,   18|             probable than that this document had reference to the crime
120    2,   18|           its truth.~And so, if the document could be read, if the key
121    2,   18|         matter was contained in the document—and that was all that the
122    2,   18|        brought me the cipher of the document?”~Fragoso did not reply.~“
123    2,   18|             of rage, he grasped the document to tear it to atoms.~Fragoso
124    2,   18|          that this man gave him the document he came to sell to Joam
125    2,   18|          Torres, the author of that document! It was Ortega!”~As he uttered
126    2,   18|          within him. He dropped the document from his clenched hand,
127    2,   18|           devoured the lines of the document with a fixed stare.~“The
128    2,   18|          which had been used in the document? Was it not as erroneous
129    2,   18|       length he held the key of the document, which would incontestably
130    2,   19|           the last paragraph of the document by means of the number,
131    2,   19|         summarized the whole of the document, and proclaimed so absolutely
132    2,   19|         victim. He committed to the document all the facts relative to
133    2,   19|           his life. He gave him the document, and made him swear to convey
134    2,   19|           432513, without which the document would remain undecipherable.~
135    2,   19|            was the signature of the document, had afforded the means
136    2,   19|   edification of all, read from the document this terrible history.~And
137    2,   19|           not been able to read the document, which was absolutely undecipherable
138    2,   19|            and with it the original document and the cipher to enable
139    2,   19|           of discharge arrived. The document had been recognized as authentic.