Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Chapter 11 The Sea-Cave

The dull loneness, the black shade,
That these hanging vaults have made:
The strange music of the waves
Beating on these hollow caves

Wither

"I (John Trenchard) grew timid, and fearful of the wild night, and the loneliness, and the darkness. And all sorts of evil tales came to mind, and I thought much of balefuo heathen gods that St. Aldhelm had banished to these underground cellars, and of the Mandrive who leapt on people in the dark and strangled them. ‘Abite a me in ignem etenum qui paratus est diabolo at angelis ejus’-‘Depart from me into internal fire prepared for the devil and his angels’. "


The displacement cipher is cracked: fourscore-feet-deep-well-north. A simple, but effective cipher was used to hide the location of a fabulous diamond. The references to the scripture verses in the cipher were misplaced by one or more places. The number of the displacement represented a word in each verse that was to be highlighted.

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