(From the pocket journal of Edgar Willard)237Please respect copyright.PENANAJa9AluoDoV
He is stronger to-day; we talked briefly of the apparitions in the cellar; agreed they were neither hallucinations or of an ectoplasmic origin, but real. Does Mr. Beal suspect as I do, that they have gone? Perhaps; the noises are still; yet all is ominous yet, o’ercast with a dark pall. It seems we must wait in the deceptive Eye of the Hurricane…..237Please respect copyright.PENANAvqZYbR6Ff0
Have found a pocket of papers in an upstairs bedroom, lying in the bottom drawer of an old roll-top desk. Some correspondence & receipted bills lead me to believe the room was Anthony Beal’s. Yet the most interesting document is a few jottings on the back of an advertisement for gentlemen’s beaver hats. At the top is writ:
237Please respect copyright.PENANACxS1dhN7By
237Please respect copyright.PENANAyo6kL3hdIu
Blessed are the meek.237Please respect copyright.PENANA7ETlz7V2hD
237Please respect copyright.PENANADYfWq7f1Uj
237Please respect copyright.PENANAZOeE37jnre
237Please respect copyright.PENANAkNVXkUmDS9
Below, the following apparent nonsense is writ:
237Please respect copyright.PENANAKhwI7rjUZv
237Please respect copyright.PENANAaOt9PmwD8W
237Please respect copyright.PENANAMPwjtDxkYu
bke dshdermthese eak
237Please respect copyright.PENANAAVRIGIpzci
elmsoerare shamded
237Please respect copyright.PENANAASpgq9v7Pz
237Please respect copyright.PENANAE4YGu0fkzI
237Please respect copyright.PENANAdhH9vMxWGG
I believe ‘tis the key of the locked and coded book in the library. The cipher above is surely a rustic one used in the War for Independence known as the Fence-Rail. When one removes the illogical from the second bit of scribble, the following is obtained:
237Please respect copyright.PENANAoIJeIwx1N0
237Please respect copyright.PENANAhPf0eYuNon
besdrteek
237Please respect copyright.PENANAxNKwJojnMm
lseaeme
237Please respect copyright.PENANAQKtni6WH4U
237Please respect copyright.PENANA37HsXcafHV
Read up and down rather than across, the result is the original quotation from the Beatitudes.237Please respect copyright.PENANABR95Sl2cqS
Before I dare show this book to Mr. Beal, I must be sure of the book’s contents…..237Please respect copyright.PENANALQHAg8gGA0
237Please respect copyright.PENANADxC32O7QCE