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 1    1,    1|       this strange assemblage of letters formed the concluding paragraph
 2    1,    1|         of these lines, with the letters at even distances, and undivided
 3    1,    1|         what principle had these letters been arranged? He who held
 4    2,   12|        is not some assemblage of letters which appears to form a
 5    2,   12|         see,” he said, “how many letters there are in the paragraph.”~
 6    2,   12|       proportion these different letters bear to each other.”~This
 7    2,   12|        in this paragraph all the letters of the alphabet are not
 8    2,   12|          hundred and seventy-six letters without all the signs of
 9    2,   12|          vowels among twenty-six letters. It is possible, therefore,
10    2,   12| cryptogram, composed of ciphers, letters, algebraic signs, asterisks,
11    2,   12|         sign—here there are only letters, let us say the letter—which
12    2,   12|       after a or o, what are the letters which figure oftenest in
13    2,   12|     arbitrary disposition of the letters, he was already pretty strong
14    2,   12| establish the order in which the letters were reproduced—vowels first,
15    2,   12|         the right meaning of the letters in the document. He had
16    2,   12|        to successively apply the letters of his alphabet to those
17    2,   12|        of the paragraph the true letters, which, according to him,
18    2,   12|        each of the cryptographic letters. As with the first line
19    2,   12|       wrote if the assemblage of letters made intelligible words.
20    2,   12|     lines he had formed with the letters of his alphabet had no more
21    2,   12|         It was another series of letters, and that was all. They
22    2,   13|      based on the proportion the letters bear to one another which
23    2,   13|        at the disposition of the letters, and read it through.”~Manoel
24    2,   13|    combination of several of the letters is very strange?” asked
25    2,   13|        and two hundred and sixth letters of the paragraph, and the
26    2,   13|         two hundred and sixtieth letters of the paragraph were consecutive
27    2,   13|        phrase so as to space the letters different and I get:~Judgejarriquezhasaningeniousmind.~
28    2,   13|      having enough complementary letters to deduct, I begin again
29    2,   13|         the alphabet has no more letters, I commence to count from
30    2,   13|         the signification of the letters depends on a cipher which
31    2,   13|          words composed of seven letters, as the name of Dacosta
32    2,   13|         this queer succession of letters, ncuvktygc. Well, arranging
33    2,   13| ncuvktygc. Well, arranging these letters in a column, one under the
34    2,   13|         placing against them the letters of my name and deducting
35    2,   13|        Between n and j we have 4 letters                               —    
36    2,   13|       for the first of the seven letters which compose his name,
37    2,   14|       his eyes, the thousands of letters of which seemed all jumbled
38    2,   14|          hundred and seventy-six letters! I hope the wretch may be
39    2,   14|        successively tried if the letters which commenced or finished
40    2,   14|          same for the seven last letters of the paragraph, p s u
41    2,   14|        in Dacosta, because these letters were in like manner twelve
42    2,   14|      from the arrangement of the letters, let us see what number
43    2,   14|        Jarriquez wrote the first letters of the paragraph, and putting
44    2,   14| meaningless! And he wanted three letters which he had to replace
45    2,   14|          which command the three letters, h, d, and d, do not give
46    2,   14|        do not give corresponding letters in ascending the series.~“
47    2,   14|        absence of sense, as many letters wanting as in the former
48    2,   14|          had done with the first letters of the different paragraphs
49    2,   15|       only furnished a series of letters just as enigmatic.~At eight
50    2,   18|   placing it above the first six letters of the paragraph he obtained
51    2,   18|          j, arranged beneath the letters o, t, e, disclosed the cipher
52    2,   18|          g and the a was a dozen letters, and hence impossible to
53    2,   18|         a fixed stare.~“The last letters!” he muttered. “Let us try
54    2,   18|        us try once more the last letters!”~It was the last hope.~
55    2,   18|         Ortega over the six last letters of the paragraph, as he
56    2,   18|        glance, that the six last letters were inferior in alphabetical
57    2,   18|     given number above the first letters of the paragraph, repeating
58    2,   18|         then, reckoning the true letters according to their alphabetical
59    2,   19|          institution of the true letters for the cryptological ones,