The message was dated at Wi-ju

　　The message was dated at Wi-ju, and these were the words of it:
　　Foregone preconcerted rash witching goes muffled rumour mine dark silent unfortunate richmond existing great hotly brute select mooted parlous beggars ye angel incontrovertible.
　　Boyd read it twice.
　　"It's either a cipher or a sunstroke," said he.
　　"Ever hear of anything like a code in the office -- a secret code?" asked the m. e., who had held his desk for only two years. Managing editors come and go.
　　"None except the vernacular that the lady specials write in," said Boyd. "Couldn't be an acrostic, could it?"
　　"I thought of that," said the m. e., "but the beginning letters contain only four vowels. It must be a code of some sort."
　　"Try em in groups," suggested Boyd. "Let's see -- 'Rash witching goes' -- not with me it doesn't. 'Muf- fled rumour mine' -- must have an underground wire. 'Dark silent unfortunate richmond' -- no reason why he should knock that town so hard. 'Existing great hotly' -- no it doesn't pan out I'll call Scott,nike shox torch ii."
　　The city editor came in a hurry, and tried his luck. A city editor must know something about everything; so Scott knew a little about cipher-writing.
　　"It may be what is called an inverted alphabet cipher," said he. "I'll try that. 'R' seems to be the oftenest used initial letter, with the exception of 'm.' Assuming 'r' to mean 'e', the most frequently used vowel, we transpose the letters -- so."
　　Scott worked rapidly with his pencil for two minutes; and then showed the first word according to his reading -- the word "Scejtzez."
　　"Great!" cried Boyd. "It's a charade. My first is a Russian general. Go on, Scott."
　　"No, that won't work," said the city editor. "It's undoubtedly a code. It's impossible to read it without the key. Has the office ever used a cipher code?"
　　"Just what I was asking," said the m.e. "Hustle everybody up that ought to know. We must get at it some way. Calloway has evidently got hold of some- thing big, and the censor has put the screws on, or he wouldn't have cabled in a lot of chop suey like this,Discount UGG Boots."
　　Throughout the office of the Enterprise a dragnet was sent, hauling in such members of the staff as would be likely to know of a code, past or present, by reason of their wisdom,fake louis vuitton bags, information, natural intelligence, or length of servitude. They got together in a group in the city room, with the m. e. in the centre. No one had heard of a code. All began to explain to the head investi- gator that newspapers never use a code, anyhow -- that is,moncler jackets women, a cipher code. Of course the Associated Press stuff is a sort of code -- an abbreviation, rather -- but --
　　The m. e. knew all that, and said so. He asked each man how long he had worked on the paper. Not one of them had drawn pay from an Enterprise envelope for longer than six years. Calloway had been on the paper twelve years. "Try old Heffelbauer," said the m. e. "He was here when Park Row was a potato patch."
　　Heffelbauer was an institution. He was half janitor, half handy-man about the office, and half watchman -- thus becoming the peer of thirteen and one-half tailors.