The system is not nearly so complicated as it looks, and the language being English--" "English! It looks like a mixture of ancient Mexican and modern Chinese." "The language being English, nothing could be easier for a man of ordinary intelligence.

If I had expected that my manuscript would fall into the hands of a cryptographist, I should have contrived something much more complicated and written it in several languages; and you have the key ready to your hand.

Come, let us begin." After half an hour's instruction I began to see daylight, and to feel that with patience and practice I should be able to write out the story in legible English.

The little I had read with Mr.Fortescue made me keen to know more; but as the cryptographic narrative did not begin at the beginning, he proposed that I should write this, as also any other missing parts, to his dictation.
"Who knows that you may not make a book of it ?" he said.
"Do you think I am intelligent Enough ?" I asked, resentfully; for his uncomplimentary references to my mental capacity were still rankling in my mind.
"I should hope so.

Everybody writes in these days.