"Come!" said the Tracer suddenly; "this won't do.

There are too few symbols to give us a key; too few repetitions to furnish us with any key basis.

Come, Captain, let us use our intellects; let us talk it over with that paper lying there between us.

It's a simple cipher--a childishly simple one if we use our wits.

Now, sir, what I see repeated before us on this sheet of paper is merely one of the forms of a symbol known as Solomon's Seal.