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CHANNEL MARSH
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| w | s | o | a | i | n | i | b |
| t | h | a | t | n | n | t | h |
| n | e | l | d | i | g | e | n |
| c | h | r | w | 0 | n | a | h |
| v | i | f | a | t | c | e | a |
| s | n | o | u | t | 0 | t | l |
| r | l | u | a | f | w | t | l |
| i | r | o | e | r | m | l | t |
The letters thus set out, to read off the message was a simple task enough, in view of the key Hewitt had given me. I began, as in the case of the Lever Key message, at the right-hand top corner, and taking the knight's move from b to e in the last square but one of the third line, thence to a at the end of the fifth line, and so to t in the seventh line, and from that to r (fifth square in bottom line), u in seventh line and so on, in the order shown by the Lever Key message, a copy of which I kept as a curiosity in my pocket-book. So I read the message through, and I set it down thus:—
Be at ruin Channel Marsh to-night twelve; wait in hall for instruc. Word final.
