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 1    1,    1|     secret, he assigned to each letter its true value. He read,
 2    1,   16|       shall. Will you deliver a letter for me?”~“With pleasure.”~“
 3    1,   16|      With pleasure.”~“Take this letter, then, my friend, and deliver
 4    1,   16|    Manaos.”~The Indian took the letter which Joam gave him, and
 5    2,    3|        proceed in the matter.~A letter from him, addressed to Judge
 6    2,    3|       an Indian on the Amazon a letter, in which he warned Judge
 7    2,    3|        approaching arrival.~The letter was sent and delivered as
 8    2,    4|         no doubt.”~“What?”~“The letter I wrote to your predecessor,
 9    2,    4| predecessor, Judge Ribeiro, the letter which gave him notice of
10    2,    4|       you wrote?”~“Yes. And the letter which ought to have arrived
11    2,    4|       broke the seal and drew a letter from the envelope. He opened
12    2,    4|       Dacosta, that this is the letter you have been speaking about,
13    2,   12|         his hand, he noted each letter in alphabetical order.~In
14    2,   12|       the signification of each letter is changed. If it has been
15    2,   12|        or signification of each letter remained constant, he would,
16    2,   12|         letters, let us say the letter—which was reproduced the
17    2,   12|          that it represents the letter which recurs most frequently
18    2,   12|         the judge found out the letter which recurred most frequently
19    2,   12|            a c =  8  —~“Now the letter a only occurs thrice!” exclaimed
20    2,   13|           said Jarriquez, “if a letter is invariably represented
21    2,   13|         represented by the same letter; if an a, for example, is
22    2,   13|       document the value of the letter changes with the arbitrarily
23    2,   13|         n or an f, or any other letter.”~“And then?”~“And then,
24    2,   13|        shows à priori that each letter is modified in virtue of
25    2,   13|  consecutive repetitions of the letter h.”~Manoel was struck with
26    2,   13|       cipher comes underneath a letter. This is what we get:~J
27    2,   13|          Manoel, replacing each letter by the letter in advance
28    2,   13|    replacing each letter by the letter in advance of it in alphabetical
29    2,   13|     them, and the cryptographic letter which answers to a true
30    2,   13|         in calculating the true letter from the false, instead
31    2,   13|        taking successively each letter of those lines for the first
32    2,   13|   should happen to be the first letter of the word Dacosta, and
33    2,   14|        by comparing it with the letter in which Torres gave the
34    2,   14|        a~Now, at the very first letter Jarriquez was stopped in
35    2,   14|         of cryptograph only one letter can take the place of another.~
36    2,   15|     read backward, and the last letter was really the first, for
37    2,   16|         that it would be a dead letter, that the first verdict
38    2,   18|        alphabetical order, this letter occupies an earlier position
39    2,   18|   formula, reckoning each later letter from the earlier letter
40    2,   18|         letter from the earlier letter of the word, he obtained.~
41    2,   20|         it were not for the one letter,” he said, “would not Lina