Chapter 32 Chapter 12 Documentation

Things could be serious, this is Joam.Da Costa and his family never expected.For those who have not forgotten the beginning of the story should know that the document was written in an impenetrable form, using one of the many common encryption schemes. But which one? This just needs to give full play to the full ingenuity of the human brain to discover. Before sending Benito and his partners away, Judge Jarry Gates wanted to keep the original documents, so he had someone copy them verbatim and check them properly.Give the copy to the two young men so they can show it to the prisoner. Then, they made an appointment to meet the next day, and the group left. They couldn't wait to see Joam.Da Costa rushed towards the prison.

In prison, I only had a quick meeting with the prisoners, and they told the whole story. Joam.Da Costa picked up the file and pondered it intently.Then he shook his head and handed the document back to his son. Perhaps, he said, there is evidence in this file that I have never been able to produce!But if this evidence can't be used by me, if my whole life can't prove my innocence, then what do I expect from the justice of mankind, I have to resign myself to fate! Everyone has felt this point, if the document cannot be deciphered, the situation of the prisoner will be terrible! We'll find a way, Father!Benito exclaimed, as long as this kind of document is studied, there is nothing that cannot be deciphered!Be confident!confidence!It can be said that God miraculously returned this document that can prove our innocence to us. After guiding our hands to find the document, God will not refuse to guide our intellect to understand it!

Joam.D'Acosta shook the hands of Benito and Manoel, and the two young men left with great excitement and went straight back to the raft, where Jacquita was waiting for them. On board, Yaquita immediately learned of the new accidents that had occurred in the past two days, how Torres' body surfaced, how the documents were found, and how the real culprit, the adventurer's accomplice, wrote this in a strange way. This document is undoubtedly for the purpose of not being implicated when the document falls into the hands of a third party. Of course, Lina also knew about this unexpected trouble, that Fragoso had discovered that Torres had been an old forest captain who belonged to the militia that protected the area around the Madeira Pass.

So what was it like when you met him?asked the mulatto girl. It was when I passed through the Amazon province and went from village to village to give people a haircut.replied Fragoso. So this scar? It happened like this: One day, I came to the Aranas Mission, and before that, I had never seen Torres. At that time, he was arguing with an accomplice. They were all scoundrels!After the quarrel, he moved the knife, and the captain of the forest was hit on the arm.But there was no doctor at that time, and I was responsible for bandaging his wound, so I knew him! Anyway, the girl retorted, after all, what does it matter if you know what Torres used to do?It doesn't help matters that he's not really the culprit!

No, replied Fragoso, we will always understand this ghost document!Joam.The truth of Da Costa's innocence will be revealed to the world! That's exactly what Yaquita, Benito, Manoel and Mina hoped for.So the three of them locked themselves in the large cabin for living, pondering for a long time, trying to decipher this document. If that is their wish it is important to emphasize that it is at least Justice Jarry Gates' wish as well. During the interrogation of Joam.After Da Costa, the judge drafted a report.Confirmed Joam.D'Acosta's identity, and then submitted the report to the Justice Department, so that he had every reason to think that the case was closed on his side.It's different now.

In fact, it should be said that after the documents were found, Judge Jarry Gates really encountered his expertise.He is an explorer of number combinations, an analyst of various interesting problems, such as anagrams, illegible words, letter combinations and other guessing experts. Obviously, it is time to see his real skills. However, thinking about the content of this document can prove that Joam.Da Costa was not guilty, and he felt that all the instincts of his analyst were stimulated.Now there is this password file in front of me!He just wanted to guess what it meant.No one who knew him doubted that he would forget his food and sleep for it.

After the young man left, Judge Jarry Gates sat in his study, closed the door to thank visitors, and spent several hours quietly alone, with glasses on the bridge of his nose and a snuff box on the table. The alertness and agility of the brain.Holding the document, he fell into deep thought, talking to himself after a while.Your Honor is an extrovert, and prefers to speak out his own thoughts. We must pay attention to the method, he said to himself, if there is no method, there will be no logic; without logic, there will be no success. Then he picked up the document and went through it from beginning to end, though he couldn't understand anything.

The document consists of a hundred or so lines, divided into six paragraphs. Um!Yari Gates thought for a moment and said, "It's a waste of precious time for me to think about it section by section.On the contrary, the most critical paragraph should be selected.However, if it wasn't the last sentence, could it be that one?For the last sentence necessarily sums up the whole case.Proper nouns, including Joam.The name D'Acosta would lead me on the right path, and if it appeared anywhere in the document, the last paragraph would obviously be indispensable. The judge's reasoning is very logical.There is no doubt that he has every reason to first use his code-breaking talents in the last paragraph.

This passage follows because it is necessary to put it before the eyes of the reader, in order to show how an analyst will use his ingenuity to discover the truth of the matter. （Ｐｈｙｊｓｌｙｄｄｑｆｄｚｘｇａｓｇｚｚｑｑｅｈｘｇｋｆｎｄｒｘｕｊｕｇｉｏｃｙｔｄｘｖｋｓｂｘｈｈｕｙｐｏｈｄｖｙｒｙｍｈｕｈｐｕｙｄｋｊｏｘｐｈｅｔｏｚｓｌｅｔｎｐｍｖｆｆｏｖｐｄｐａｊｘｈｙｙｎｏｊｙｇｇａｙｍｅｐｙｎｆｕｐｌｎｍｖｌｙｆｇｓｕｚｍｐｉｚｔｌｂｑｇｙｕｇｓｐｅｕｂｖｎｒｃｒｅｄｇｒｕｚｂｌｒｍｘｙｕｈｑｈｐｚｄｒｒｇｃｒｏｈｅｑｐｘｕｆｉｖｖｒｐｌｐｈｏｎｔｈｖｄｄｑｆｈｑｓｎｔｚｈｈｈｎｆｅｐｍｑｋｙｕｕｅｘｋｔｏｇｚｇｋｙｕｕｍｆｖｉｊｄｑｄｐｚｊｑｓｙｋｒｐｌｘｈｘｑｒｙｍｖｋｌｏｈｈｈｏｔｏｚｖｄｋｓｐｐｓｕｖｊｈ．ｄ．） First, Judge Jarry Gates noted that each line in the document was neither word-separated nor punctuated.This situation only makes reading more difficult.

However, he muttered to see if a few letters could be combined to form a word.The word I am talking about refers to the situation where the number of consonants matches the number of vowels and can be pronounced!First of all, at the beginning, I saw the word phy followed by the word gas! Isn't ujugi the name of the African city on the edge of Tanganyika?What does the city have to do with this?Further back, it's ypo.Is it Greek?Then rympuyjorphetozjyggaysuzgruz is in front of redlet!These are two English words!And then, ohesyk!Another rym followed by, oto! Jarry Gates dropped the document and thought for a while.

I had a quick look at it, and all those words are weird!In fact, he said to himself, there was nothing to show their provenance!Some look like Greek, others like Dutch, some look like English, some look like nothing at all, not to mention a string of consonants that make it impossible to pronounce!In short, it is not easy to decipher this code! The judge's fingers began to play a kind of wake-up drum on the desk, as if to awaken his dormant intellect. Then look at how many letters there are in this paragraph!He said. He counted with a pencil in his hand. Two hundred and seventy-six!He said.Well, now let's see in what proportion these different letters are combined. It will take a little more time to figure it out.Jarry Gates picked up the file again; then took a pencil, and wrote down each letter one by one in alphabetical order.After a quarter of an hour, he came up with the following table: a∥3 times n∥9 times b∥4 times o∥12 times c∥3 times p∥16 times d∥16 times q∥16 times e∥9 times r∥12 times f∥10 times s∥10 times g∥13 times t∥8 times h∥23 times u∥17 times i∥4 times v∥13 times j∥8 times x∥12 times k∥9 times y∥19 times l∥9 times z∥12 times m∥9 times A total of two hundred and seventy-six times Ha ha!Jarry Gates exclaimed, the first discovery really surprised me: that is, in only this paragraph, all the letters of the alphabet are used!This is rather strange!For if you pick at random from a book a few lines of 276 letters, it is very rare for every letter of the alphabet to appear!Anyway, it could also be a coincidence. Then, the judge started to use another logic: The more important question is to see if the ratio of vowels and consonants is normal. The judge picked up the pencil again, singled out the vowels, and worked out the following: a∥3 times e∥9 times i∥4 times o∥12 times u∥17 times y∥19 times A total of sixty-four vowel letters. Thus, in this section, minus sixty-four vowels, there are still two hundred and twelve consonants!This ratio is normal, about one-fifth, just like there are six vowels in the twenty-five letters of the alphabet.It is therefore likely that the document was written in our language, with only the meaning of each letter changed.If there is a regularity to the transformation of letters, for example, if b is always replaced by l, o is always v, g is k, v is r, and so on, then if I still can't understand this document, I will The judge who is willing to give up this Manao will not do it!well!What are you waiting for, hurry up and follow the name of the man who calls himself Edgar.Ellen.Poe's great genius-analyst approach to work! Jarry Gates said this alluding to a short story by a famous American novelist, which is a masterpiece.Who hasn't read The Scarab? In this short story, a cipher of numbers, letters, algebraic symbols, asterisks, periods, and commas, broken by a truly mathematical method and finally broken in extraordinary fashion, the eccentric's Admirers never forget it. Yes, breaking that American code was only about discovering a treasure, and now it's a matter of life and honor!So deciphering this cipher number should be interesting. The judge often read his "The Scarab" repeatedly and knew Edgar.Ellen.He was determined to take advantage of the analytical method employed by Poe.In this way, as he said, so long as the function or meaning of each letter remained the same, sooner or later he would be able to read this book about Joam.Da Costa's file. Edgar.Ellen.What did Poe do then?He thought over and over again: First, he started by finding out the symbols. There are only letters here, which often appear repeatedly in password files.And in this document, I consider the letter h to be a symbol because it appears twenty-three times.Based on such a large ratio alone, it can be concluded that b does not represent h. On the contrary, since I assume that this document is written in Portuguese, then this should represent the most frequently occurring letter in our language.In English and French, it may be e; in Italian, it will be i or a; in Portuguese, it should be a or o.So, unless there is a later change, let us assume that h stands for a or o. So Judge Jarry Gates went on to find out which letter appeared most frequently in the document after the h.In this way, he listed the following table: h∥23 times y∥19 times u∥17 times dpq∥16 times gv∥13 times orxz∥12 times fs∥10 times eklmn∥9 times jt∥8 times bi ∥ 4 times ac∥3 times So the letter a appeared only three times, exclaimed the judge, it should have appeared the most!Well!This is absolutely sufficient proof that it has changed meaning!Now, after a or o, which letters are most commonly used in our language!Let's find out. Judge Jarry Gates has invested in new research with his outstanding intelligence and insight.This time, he just imitated the American novelist, who was an outstanding analyst. He could only recompile the alphabet corresponding to the code symbols through simple induction or comparison, so that he could read it smoothly. password. The judge followed suit, sure that he was not inferior to his famous teacher.Since he used to play anagrams, phalanxes, rectangles, and other kinds of anagrams in which the alphabet was randomly scrambled, and was used to solving puzzles with mental or written calculations, the judge was quite proficient in such puzzle games. So this time, without any effort, he was able to arrange the frequencies of these letters in order, with vowels first and consonants last. After three hours of work, he had an alphabet list in front of him. Done correctly, this alphabet will reveal the true meaning of the letters in the file. Now just map the letters in the table to the file one by one. Before the comparison, Judge Jarry Gates was a little agitated.After hours of unrelenting effort, he was so eager to find the answer to the anagram that he was on the verge of solving it, and the judge enjoyed such mental enjoyment with more pleasure than we can imagine. Let's try it out.Honestly, he said, it would be a wonder if I couldn't figure out the answer! Judge Jarrigates took off his glasses, wiped the lenses blurred by the heat from his eyes, put them back on, and went back to his desk. With the specially made alphabet in one hand and the document in the other, he began to write the actual letters below the first line of the paragraph, which, according to his idea, should correspond exactly to each letter on the cipher. After the first line he wrote the second, then the third, the fourth, and so on until the end of the paragraph. It was so ingenious that he didn't even want to see if the letter combinations formed comprehensible words while he was writing.No!In this first step his mind rejects this verification.What he wanted was the joy of reading from the beginning to the end in one breath. The original text came out. Let's read it!he cheered. So he read it. God!It's so awkward!A few lines of his post-formed alphabet mean no more than a document!Another string of letters, that's all, and the letters don't form a word, so meaningless!In short, it is also completely a heavenly book!