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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