Show AN INGENIOUS CIPHER how irow the tile arrien its of or a got themselves ses into jail somo cire ago the friends of a ti parisian rarig ian thief adopted a decad decidedly edly unique method of carrying carra ing on acaru a calru costino correspondence with him rhile ho he was awaiting trial ono day tho the jailer waa was visited by tho the prisoners be troth Ld who macd him to give her lover an envelope this upon being opened waa was found to contain simply a small lock 0 of her hair around which was wall folded a loaf leaf of a book tho the jailer did not consider it worth hie his whit 3 to delli er this sou calr to the culprit and therefore thor eforo throw it aside A day or two later a similar in costro was handed in at tho the prison gute and shared tho fato of tho prodo cc mr in tho the courso of n week another was waa left by tho samo same person this aroused tho the suspicion of tho the go bernor of tho the prison to whom had been detailed tho the circumstances ho he do to investigate tho the meaning und accordingly drat first examined tho the printed leaf ibis ho found was torn from a novel and contained twentysix twenty six lines on each eldo side ito then turned hie his attention to tho the hair and cd that there were twentysix twenty six pieces of unequal length this puzzled him for a while and then suddenly jumping to tho the conclusion that there must bo be some connection between tho the number of tho the printed lines and tho the number of hairs ho laid each of tho the latter along tho the lino line of tho the pago page they respectively respective ly reached beginning with tho the short shortest cat hair at tho the top of tho the leaf after changing thorn them about several timos times ho he discovered that each hair pointed to a different letter aad and tho the oom combination thug thus produced formed a slang sentence by means of which tho the prisoner wad was given to understand that hie his friends had ascertained tho the day on which ho he waa was to bo be taken to court and were determined to make a bold attempt to rescue him as soon as ho he mado made his appearance taking the tha cuo buo tho the governor adopted evory every precaution to frustrate fru strato tho the well laid plans of tho the outsiders tho the attempt was maeo and as a natural consequence tho the conspirators soon found themselves ies in tho the samo same as tho the one ono for whom they bad had planned tho the rescue |