“Well, not exactly. That is, not right away.”
“Do you mean you ever expect to be able to?”
“I might.”
“But it’s all nonsense. Just as if I took a lot of words at random, and jotted them down. It reads as good backwards as it does frontwards.”
“Of course it does. That’s the way they intended.”
“Who intended?”
“The persons who sent you this cipher message.”
“Is this a cipher?”
“It certainly is, and it’s evidently a very easy one, or the gang would never have sent it. They evidently want to scare you a bit.”
“Do you think the gang that stole the deed sent this?”