diff --git a/packages/basemath/1/@answer.txt b/packages/basemath/1/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index b4de394..0000000 --- a/packages/basemath/1/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -11 diff --git a/packages/basemath/1/@author.txt b/packages/basemath/1/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/basemath/1/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/basemath/1/@index.mdwn b/packages/basemath/1/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index d813a25..0000000 --- a/packages/basemath/1/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 _ diff --git a/packages/basemath/1/@summary.txt b/packages/basemath/1/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 351eaec..0000000 --- a/packages/basemath/1/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -base 10 counting diff --git a/packages/basemath/2/@answer.txt b/packages/basemath/2/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 83b33d2..0000000 --- a/packages/basemath/2/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -1000 diff --git a/packages/basemath/2/@author.txt b/packages/basemath/2/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/basemath/2/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/basemath/2/@index.mdwn b/packages/basemath/2/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index af51cfa..0000000 --- a/packages/basemath/2/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ - 1 10 11 100 101 110 111 _ - diff --git a/packages/basemath/2/@summary.txt b/packages/basemath/2/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 2cfe648..0000000 --- a/packages/basemath/2/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -base 2 diff --git a/packages/basemath/3/@answer.txt b/packages/basemath/3/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 29d6383..0000000 --- a/packages/basemath/3/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -100 diff --git a/packages/basemath/3/@author.txt b/packages/basemath/3/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/basemath/3/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/basemath/3/@index.mdwn b/packages/basemath/3/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 39abc94..0000000 --- a/packages/basemath/3/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ - ... 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 ... 75 76 77 _ diff --git a/packages/basemath/3/@summary.txt b/packages/basemath/3/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index eedd715..0000000 --- a/packages/basemath/3/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -base 8 diff --git a/packages/basemath/4/@answer.txt b/packages/basemath/4/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 747e1ad..0000000 --- a/packages/basemath/4/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -1CA diff --git a/packages/basemath/4/@author.txt b/packages/basemath/4/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/basemath/4/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/basemath/4/@index.mdwn b/packages/basemath/4/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index ec74c96..0000000 --- a/packages/basemath/4/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ - ... 7 8 9 A B C D E F 10 11 12 13 ... 1C8 1C9 _ diff --git a/packages/basemath/4/@summary.txt b/packages/basemath/4/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 05fee0c..0000000 --- a/packages/basemath/4/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -base 16 diff --git a/packages/basemath/5/@answer.txt b/packages/basemath/5/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 900731f..0000000 --- a/packages/basemath/5/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -64 diff --git a/packages/basemath/5/@author.txt b/packages/basemath/5/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/basemath/5/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/basemath/5/@index.mdwn b/packages/basemath/5/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 22a9d01..0000000 --- a/packages/basemath/5/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ - 1 2 4 8 16 32 _ diff --git a/packages/basemath/5/@summary.txt b/packages/basemath/5/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 418c146..0000000 --- a/packages/basemath/5/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -powers of 2 diff --git a/packages/basemath/basemath.mk b/packages/basemath/basemath.mk deleted file mode 100644 index df65f67..0000000 --- a/packages/basemath/basemath.mk +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -$(eval $(call STANDARD_PUZZLE, basemath)) diff --git a/packages/bletchley/100/@answer.txt b/packages/bletchley/100/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5403edd..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/100/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -antediluvian diff --git a/packages/bletchley/100/@author.txt b/packages/bletchley/100/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/100/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/bletchley/100/@index.mdwn b/packages/bletchley/100/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 984fdc2..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/100/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -.tnih a si sihT diff --git a/packages/bletchley/100/@summary.txt b/packages/bletchley/100/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 6e47e1d..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/100/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -gzip 20G diff --git a/packages/bletchley/100/key.png b/packages/bletchley/100/key.png deleted file mode 100644 index b658ad9..0000000 Binary files a/packages/bletchley/100/key.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/bletchley/1000/@answer.txt b/packages/bletchley/1000/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 3be61b9..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/1000/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -It is a lovely day outside diff --git a/packages/bletchley/1000/@author.txt b/packages/bletchley/1000/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/1000/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/bletchley/1000/@index.mdwn b/packages/bletchley/1000/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 7dd37e9..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/1000/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,108 +0,0 @@ -Safe to execute. - -Santa's helpers binary diff --git a/packages/bletchley/1000/@summary.txt b/packages/bletchley/1000/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index a107a5b..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/1000/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -100 150 200 250 300 350 500 900 diff --git a/packages/bletchley/150/@answer.txt b/packages/bletchley/150/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 268a648..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/150/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -jackalope wheeze diff --git a/packages/bletchley/150/@author.txt b/packages/bletchley/150/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/150/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/bletchley/150/@index.mdwn b/packages/bletchley/150/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 672516c..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/150/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -Recovery, while not strictly necessary, may be tremendously helpful. - diff --git a/packages/bletchley/150/@summary.txt b/packages/bletchley/150/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 7e3a2c3..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/150/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -bz2recover diff --git a/packages/bletchley/150/aacaaebb0cd0503e7bad97c42321a738 b/packages/bletchley/150/aacaaebb0cd0503e7bad97c42321a738 deleted file mode 100644 index 6ea1d2e..0000000 Binary files a/packages/bletchley/150/aacaaebb0cd0503e7bad97c42321a738 and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/bletchley/200/@answer.txt b/packages/bletchley/200/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index d398ae2..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/200/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -unequivocal diff --git a/packages/bletchley/200/@author.txt b/packages/bletchley/200/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/200/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/bletchley/200/@index.mdwn b/packages/bletchley/200/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 3b9ced7..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/200/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ - tkftsuiuqvaheohrnsnuoleyriod"eic" diff --git a/packages/bletchley/200/@summary.txt b/packages/bletchley/200/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index d3acf4f..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/200/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -scytale diff --git a/packages/bletchley/250/@answer.txt b/packages/bletchley/250/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 3933ee2..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/250/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -DB1663<3 diff --git a/packages/bletchley/250/@author.txt b/packages/bletchley/250/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/250/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/bletchley/250/@index.mdwn b/packages/bletchley/250/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 003362a..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/250/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ - 27586126814341379597440261571645814840581961154587430529221052323 diff --git a/packages/bletchley/250/@summary.txt b/packages/bletchley/250/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 9405107..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/250/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -png as integer diff --git a/packages/bletchley/300/@answer.txt b/packages/bletchley/300/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 92a52e5..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/300/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -bigbadaboom diff --git a/packages/bletchley/300/@author.txt b/packages/bletchley/300/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/300/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/bletchley/300/@index.mdwn b/packages/bletchley/300/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index e6bca1d..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/300/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ -Kolejne modele Panzerfausta, odpowiednio: 60, 100, 150, różnił -kaliber głowicy i wielkość ładunku miotającego. Konstrukcja i -mechanizm nie ulegał istotnym zmianom, z racji wzrastania zasięgu -broni modyfikacjom ulegały nastawy celowników. Jedynie we wzorze 150 -wprowadzono (a był to już początek 1945 roku) wielokrotne użycie -wyrzutni rurowej. Osiągnięto to przez umieszczenie ładunku -miotającego w głowicy oraz przez wzmocnienie rury. W wyniku problemu z -transportem model ów nie wszedł do walki. Model 250 (o teoretycznym -zasięgu 250 m) z racji zakończenia wojny nie opuścił desek -kreślarskich nigdy nie wchodząc nawet w fazę prototypową. - - (61, 4) - (47, 8) - (19, 4) - (37, 1) - (51, 3) - (67, 5) - (9, 2) - (26, 1) - (2, 2) - (26, 3) - (50, 2) diff --git a/packages/bletchley/300/@summary.txt b/packages/bletchley/300/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 19297c6..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/300/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -panzerfaust (word, letter) diff --git a/packages/bletchley/350/936bc08007a9076673a81040024728be b/packages/bletchley/350/936bc08007a9076673a81040024728be deleted file mode 100644 index 25d4c2f..0000000 Binary files a/packages/bletchley/350/936bc08007a9076673a81040024728be and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/bletchley/350/@answer.txt b/packages/bletchley/350/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 89709ea..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/350/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -PC LOAD LETTER diff --git a/packages/bletchley/350/@author.txt b/packages/bletchley/350/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/350/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/bletchley/350/@summary.txt b/packages/bletchley/350/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 972b130..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/350/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -filenames of each gzip segment diff --git a/packages/bletchley/50/@answer.txt b/packages/bletchley/50/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 0db4aae..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/50/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -extra special text diff --git a/packages/bletchley/50/@author.txt b/packages/bletchley/50/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/50/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/bletchley/50/adddbafb502355634d9ef10e1848cf52 b/packages/bletchley/50/adddbafb502355634d9ef10e1848cf52 deleted file mode 100644 index 97e2900..0000000 Binary files a/packages/bletchley/50/adddbafb502355634d9ef10e1848cf52 and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/bletchley/500/200601262232.ogg b/packages/bletchley/500/200601262232.ogg deleted file mode 100644 index d00f825..0000000 Binary files a/packages/bletchley/500/200601262232.ogg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/bletchley/500/@answer.txt b/packages/bletchley/500/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index b197a4a..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/500/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -xez.3nt diff --git a/packages/bletchley/500/@author.txt b/packages/bletchley/500/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/500/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/bletchley/500/@index.mdwn b/packages/bletchley/500/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 8c32ab6..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/500/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -journals.uchicago diff --git a/packages/bletchley/500/@summary.txt b/packages/bletchley/500/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5fca0ef..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/500/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -fast audio diff --git a/packages/bletchley/500/cipher.txt b/packages/bletchley/500/cipher.txt deleted file mode 100644 index cf43f95..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/500/cipher.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -31 9 15 26 14 23 14 6 18 5 12 18 5 2 16 27 7 10 11 5 13 31 17 17 6 2 26 26 10 21 10 8 20 4 diff --git a/packages/bletchley/900/1d45b460b5844d0d769ca469f7b5bdc7 b/packages/bletchley/900/1d45b460b5844d0d769ca469f7b5bdc7 deleted file mode 100644 index fbf0b16..0000000 Binary files a/packages/bletchley/900/1d45b460b5844d0d769ca469f7b5bdc7 and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/bletchley/900/@answer.txt b/packages/bletchley/900/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 4a1b0b3..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/900/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME diff --git a/packages/bletchley/900/@author.txt b/packages/bletchley/900/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/900/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/bletchley/900/@summary.txt b/packages/bletchley/900/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5372c43..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/900/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -exif type diff --git a/packages/bletchley/bletchley.mk b/packages/bletchley/bletchley.mk deleted file mode 100644 index 6fe9280..0000000 --- a/packages/bletchley/bletchley.mk +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -$(eval $(call STANDARD_PUZZLE, bletchley)) diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/1/@answer.txt b/packages/codebreaking/1/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index aee2f5c..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/1/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -snickers diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/1/@author.txt b/packages/codebreaking/1/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/1/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/1/@index.mdwn b/packages/codebreaking/1/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 7d4c275..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/1/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -The answer for this page is "snickers". \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/1/@summary.txt b/packages/codebreaking/1/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5e5bf17..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/1/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -plain text, no crypto diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/2/@answer.txt b/packages/codebreaking/2/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 740c3cf..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/2/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -gobstopper diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/2/@author.txt b/packages/codebreaking/2/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/2/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/2/@index.mdwn b/packages/codebreaking/2/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index b0b1be2..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/2/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Uif botxfs gps uijt qbhf jt "hpctupqqfs". \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/2/@summary.txt b/packages/codebreaking/2/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5b8530d..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/2/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -rot-1 diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/3/@answer.txt b/packages/codebreaking/3/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 0afb7d2..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/3/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -tootsie diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/3/@author.txt b/packages/codebreaking/3/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/3/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/3/@index.mdwn b/packages/codebreaking/3/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 3fd0fad..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/3/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -![dancing men](dancing.png) diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/3/@summary.txt b/packages/codebreaking/3/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 9219591..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/3/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -dancing men diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/3/dancing.png b/packages/codebreaking/3/dancing.png deleted file mode 100644 index 74fb578..0000000 Binary files a/packages/codebreaking/3/dancing.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/4/@answer.txt b/packages/codebreaking/4/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 77cfbcd..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/4/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -hershey diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/4/@author.txt b/packages/codebreaking/4/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/4/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/4/@index.mdwn b/packages/codebreaking/4/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index c6ed686..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/4/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Xts cgmvsl ihl otfm jcns fm "tslmtsx". diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/4/@summary.txt b/packages/codebreaking/4/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index ae54570..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/4/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -monoalphabetic substitution cipher diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/5/@answer.txt b/packages/codebreaking/5/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index dc67af8..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/5/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -skittles diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/5/@author.txt b/packages/codebreaking/5/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/5/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/5/@summary.txt b/packages/codebreaking/5/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index a2764b9..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/5/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -bionicle substitution diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/5/image.png b/packages/codebreaking/5/image.png deleted file mode 100644 index 283558a..0000000 Binary files a/packages/codebreaking/5/image.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/6/@answer.txt b/packages/codebreaking/6/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index a27adc8..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/6/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -toffee diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/6/@author.txt b/packages/codebreaking/6/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/6/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/6/@summary.txt b/packages/codebreaking/6/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e76a67c..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/6/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -wiccan substitution diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/6/image.png b/packages/codebreaking/6/image.png deleted file mode 100644 index 9be3c2f..0000000 Binary files a/packages/codebreaking/6/image.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/7/@answer.txt b/packages/codebreaking/7/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index a4a6735..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/7/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -beet diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/7/@author.txt b/packages/codebreaking/7/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/7/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/7/@index.mdwn b/packages/codebreaking/7/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 29e869f..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/7/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ - toaatbs 1 - hdsthea 2 - iectern 3 - siyetos 4 - tstnofw 5 - ycattle 6 - paliaer 7 - eleoltb 8 - olpnnte 9 - featuee 10 - cdyomrt 11 - - 1234567 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/7/@summary.txt b/packages/codebreaking/7/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 609df56..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/7/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -scytale laid out in grid diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/8/@answer.txt b/packages/codebreaking/8/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 11cbcea..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/8/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -chalupa diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/8/@author.txt b/packages/codebreaking/8/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/8/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/8/@index.mdwn b/packages/codebreaking/8/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 7e727e6..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/8/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -cusoeecolorsahnanicnagtfnyslriagtwuaoctaeptnthlra diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/8/@summary.txt b/packages/codebreaking/8/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 98b2c66..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/8/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -real scytale diff --git a/packages/codebreaking/codebreaking.mk b/packages/codebreaking/codebreaking.mk deleted file mode 100644 index 6ecb730..0000000 --- a/packages/codebreaking/codebreaking.mk +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -$(eval $(call STANDARD_PUZZLE, codebreaking)) diff --git a/packages/compaq/100/@answer.txt b/packages/compaq/100/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index aebc492..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/100/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash diff --git a/packages/compaq/100/@author.txt b/packages/compaq/100/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 718ad28..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/100/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Danny Quist diff --git a/packages/compaq/100/@index.mdwn b/packages/compaq/100/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 0c187a5..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/100/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,53 +0,0 @@ -You are doing a forensics evaluation of a linux box that you know has -been compromised. You find a binary on the system and assume it was -used by the attackers to hide data on box that that was exfiltrated. -You dissamble the file and find the x86 assembly shown below (from Ida) -- this function was used for obfuscation. You also find a file -obfuscated by this tool. Using the key you find in this encoder code -what is the unobfuscated first line of the file which starts with - - 8%%>p2pzpzp8%%>pe8%%>pe(#$e(+9" - - HINT: The function was orginally defined as void convert_buf(unsigned -char * buf, int len). - - .text:08048474 ; =============== S U B R O U T I N E ======================================= - .text:08048474 - .text:08048474 ; Attributes: bp-based frame - .text:08048474 - .text:08048474 public convert_buf - .text:08048474 convert_buf proc near ; CODE XREF: main+B2p - .text:08048474 - .text:08048474 cnt = dword ptr -4 - .text:08048474 buf = dword ptr 8 - .text:08048474 len = dword ptr 0Ch - .text:08048474 - .text:08048474 push ebp - .text:08048475 mov ebp, esp - .text:08048477 sub esp, 10h - .text:0804847A mov [ebp+cnt], 0 - .text:08048481 mov [ebp+cnt], 0 - .text:08048488 jmp short loc_80484A4 - .text:0804848A ; --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - .text:0804848A - .text:0804848A loc_804848A: ; CODE XREF: convert_buf+36j - .text:0804848A mov eax, [ebp+cnt] - .text:0804848D mov edx, eax - .text:0804848F add edx, [ebp+buf] - .text:08048492 mov eax, [ebp+cnt] - .text:08048495 add eax, [ebp+buf] - .text:08048498 movzx eax, byte ptr [eax] - .text:0804849B xor eax, 4Ah - .text:0804849E mov [edx], al - .text:080484A0 add [ebp+cnt], 1 - .text:080484A4 - .text:080484A4 loc_80484A4: ; CODE XREF: convert_buf+14j - .text:080484A4 mov eax, [ebp+cnt] - .text:080484A7 cmp eax, [ebp+len] - .text:080484AA jl short loc_804848A - .text:080484AC leave - .text:080484AD retn - .text:080484AD convert_buf endp - .text:080484AD - .text:080484AE - diff --git a/packages/compaq/1000/@answer.txt b/packages/compaq/1000/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index f07b3cb..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/1000/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -koobface \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/compaq/1000/@author.txt b/packages/compaq/1000/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 718ad28..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/1000/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Danny Quist diff --git a/packages/compaq/1000/@index.mdwn b/packages/compaq/1000/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 3aa46ef..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/1000/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ -You have found a virus on one of your customers computers. To answer this question, -you will need to reverse engineer it and find out information about the sample. - -The MD5 for this sample is ec7be21bd697050d119c9f9df0fb6450 - -Which family does this virus belong to? (all lowercase e.g. "sasser" without the quotes. diff --git a/packages/compaq/1000/Ec7be21bd697050d119c9f9df0fb6450.zip b/packages/compaq/1000/Ec7be21bd697050d119c9f9df0fb6450.zip deleted file mode 100644 index 97450c3..0000000 Binary files a/packages/compaq/1000/Ec7be21bd697050d119c9f9df0fb6450.zip and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/compaq/150/@answer.txt b/packages/compaq/150/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 164f87f..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/150/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. diff --git a/packages/compaq/150/@author.txt b/packages/compaq/150/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 718ad28..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/150/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Danny Quist diff --git a/packages/compaq/150/b2f3f6b43ecadc7ae0b5f0edde694c78 b/packages/compaq/150/b2f3f6b43ecadc7ae0b5f0edde694c78 deleted file mode 100755 index c20b65b..0000000 Binary files a/packages/compaq/150/b2f3f6b43ecadc7ae0b5f0edde694c78 and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/compaq/200/@answer.txt b/packages/compaq/200/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index ad21564..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/200/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Gawain Ballard Tunisia diff --git a/packages/compaq/200/@author.txt b/packages/compaq/200/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 718ad28..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/200/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Danny Quist diff --git a/packages/compaq/200/a6bcc9cff02efe6ae870e422014ee8c2 b/packages/compaq/200/a6bcc9cff02efe6ae870e422014ee8c2 deleted file mode 100755 index f0a7fce..0000000 Binary files a/packages/compaq/200/a6bcc9cff02efe6ae870e422014ee8c2 and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/compaq/2000/@answer.txt b/packages/compaq/2000/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index be4472c..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/2000/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -NtProtectVirtualMemory \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/compaq/2000/@author.txt b/packages/compaq/2000/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 718ad28..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/2000/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Danny Quist diff --git a/packages/compaq/2000/@index.mdwn b/packages/compaq/2000/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index acd5066..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/2000/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,8 +0,0 @@ -You have found a virus on one of your customers computers. To answer this question, -you will need to reverse engineer it and find out information about the sample. - -The MD5 for this sample is ec7be21bd697050d119c9f9df0fb6450 - -Which API is called at address 4014A2? - -Assume a normal address layout with the program being loaded with an ImageBase of 400000. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/compaq/2000/Ec7be21bd697050d119c9f9df0fb6450.zip b/packages/compaq/2000/Ec7be21bd697050d119c9f9df0fb6450.zip deleted file mode 100644 index 97450c3..0000000 Binary files a/packages/compaq/2000/Ec7be21bd697050d119c9f9df0fb6450.zip and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/compaq/3000/@answer.txt b/packages/compaq/3000/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index b89f632..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/3000/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -420c80 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/compaq/3000/@author.txt b/packages/compaq/3000/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 718ad28..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/3000/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Danny Quist diff --git a/packages/compaq/3000/@index.mdwn b/packages/compaq/3000/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index fe4ecda..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/3000/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,8 +0,0 @@ -You have found a virus on one of your customers computers. To answer this question, -you will need to reverse engineer it and find out information about the sample. - -The MD5 for this sample is ec7be21bd697050d119c9f9df0fb6450 - -What is the original entry point for the worm after the unpacking process? - -Assume a normal address layout with the program being loaded with an ImageBase of 400000. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/compaq/3000/Ec7be21bd697050d119c9f9df0fb6450.zip b/packages/compaq/3000/Ec7be21bd697050d119c9f9df0fb6450.zip deleted file mode 100644 index 97450c3..0000000 Binary files a/packages/compaq/3000/Ec7be21bd697050d119c9f9df0fb6450.zip and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/compaq/350/@answer.txt b/packages/compaq/350/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index c4fa843..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/350/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Actually, Werner, we're all tickled to here you say that. Frankly, watchin' Donny beat Nazis to death is is the closest we ever get to goin' to the movies. diff --git a/packages/compaq/350/@author.txt b/packages/compaq/350/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 718ad28..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/350/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Danny Quist diff --git a/packages/compaq/350/e76cb42be0c0f12f97b2071aba8b74f2 b/packages/compaq/350/e76cb42be0c0f12f97b2071aba8b74f2 deleted file mode 100755 index 10b82c9..0000000 Binary files a/packages/compaq/350/e76cb42be0c0f12f97b2071aba8b74f2 and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/compaq/400/@answer.txt b/packages/compaq/400/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index c4b3aba..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/400/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -lawful forths Amanda diff --git a/packages/compaq/400/@author.txt b/packages/compaq/400/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 718ad28..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/400/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Danny Quist diff --git a/packages/compaq/400/d56b7cb684b7d5137cbf7980b4e4a68f b/packages/compaq/400/d56b7cb684b7d5137cbf7980b4e4a68f deleted file mode 100755 index 2ede643..0000000 Binary files a/packages/compaq/400/d56b7cb684b7d5137cbf7980b4e4a68f and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/compaq/4000/@answer.txt b/packages/compaq/4000/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index b98eb3d..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/4000/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Sleep(1) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/compaq/4000/@author.txt b/packages/compaq/4000/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 718ad28..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/4000/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Danny Quist diff --git a/packages/compaq/4000/@index.mdwn b/packages/compaq/4000/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index ae1913c..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/4000/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,8 +0,0 @@ -You have found a virus on one of your customers computers. To answer this question, -you will need to reverse engineer it and find out information about the sample. - -The MD5 for this sample is ec7be21bd697050d119c9f9df0fb6450 - -What is the first API called after the original entry point? Include it with the parameter(s) - -For example, if the API was the string "zomg" being passed to printf the answer would be: printf("zomg") \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/compaq/4000/Ec7be21bd697050d119c9f9df0fb6450.zip b/packages/compaq/4000/Ec7be21bd697050d119c9f9df0fb6450.zip deleted file mode 100644 index 97450c3..0000000 Binary files a/packages/compaq/4000/Ec7be21bd697050d119c9f9df0fb6450.zip and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/compaq/50/@answer.txt b/packages/compaq/50/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 85e6145..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/50/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -4C -4c diff --git a/packages/compaq/50/@author.txt b/packages/compaq/50/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 718ad28..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/50/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Danny Quist diff --git a/packages/compaq/50/@index.mdwn b/packages/compaq/50/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index e3518a5..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/50/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,52 +0,0 @@ -You are doing a forensics evaluation of a linux box that you know has -been compromised. You find a binary on the system and assume it was -used by the attackers to hide data on box that they were going to -exfiltrate. You dissamble the file and find the following lines of x86 -assembly - this function was used to encode a buffer in place to -obfuscate a file. What is the 1 byte key used to obfuscate the data (in -hex)? - -HINT: The function was orginally defined as void convert_buf(unsigned -char * buf, int len). You can solve this puzzle by writing some code, -or by using some of the advanced functions of some of the hex editors -out there. - - .text:08048474 ; =============== S U B R O U T I N E ======================================= - .text:08048474 - .text:08048474 ; Attributes: bp-based frame - .text:08048474 - .text:08048474 public convert_buf - .text:08048474 convert_buf proc near ; CODE XREF: main+B2p - .text:08048474 - .text:08048474 cnt = dword ptr -4 - .text:08048474 buf = dword ptr 8 - .text:08048474 len = dword ptr 0Ch - .text:08048474 - .text:08048474 push ebp - .text:08048475 mov ebp, esp - .text:08048477 sub esp, 10h - .text:0804847A mov [ebp+cnt], 0 - .text:08048481 mov [ebp+cnt], 0 - .text:08048488 jmp short loc_80484A4 - .text:0804848A ; --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - .text:0804848A - .text:0804848A loc_804848A: ; CODE XREF: convert_buf+36j - .text:0804848A mov eax, [ebp+cnt] - .text:0804848D mov edx, eax - .text:0804848F add edx, [ebp+buf] - .text:08048492 mov eax, [ebp+cnt] - .text:08048495 add eax, [ebp+buf] - .text:08048498 movzx eax, byte ptr [eax] - .text:0804849B xor eax, 4Ch - .text:0804849E mov [edx], al - .text:080484A0 add [ebp+cnt], 1 - .text:080484A4 - .text:080484A4 loc_80484A4: ; CODE XREF: convert_buf+14j - .text:080484A4 mov eax, [ebp+cnt] - .text:080484A7 cmp eax, [ebp+len] - .text:080484AA jl short loc_804848A - .text:080484AC leave - .text:080484AD retn - .text:080484AD convert_buf endp - .text:080484AD - .text:080484AE diff --git a/packages/compaq/500/02cb1e1d65a68b29ac851936c9bb4684 b/packages/compaq/500/02cb1e1d65a68b29ac851936c9bb4684 deleted file mode 100755 index 027c81c..0000000 Binary files a/packages/compaq/500/02cb1e1d65a68b29ac851936c9bb4684 and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/compaq/500/@answer.txt b/packages/compaq/500/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 576c70d..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/500/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -codger launched jet diff --git a/packages/compaq/500/@author.txt b/packages/compaq/500/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 718ad28..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/500/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Danny Quist diff --git a/packages/compaq/600/@answer.txt b/packages/compaq/600/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 99d2435..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/600/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Now think real hard. You been bird-doggin' this township awhile now. They wouldn't mind a corpse of you. Now, you can luxuriate in a nice jail cell, but if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty floral bonnet, I will end you. diff --git a/packages/compaq/600/@author.txt b/packages/compaq/600/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 718ad28..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/600/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Danny Quist diff --git a/packages/compaq/600/daa36d50d4c807634dfd13a8239046de b/packages/compaq/600/daa36d50d4c807634dfd13a8239046de deleted file mode 100755 index 41ba532..0000000 Binary files a/packages/compaq/600/daa36d50d4c807634dfd13a8239046de and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/compaq/compaq.mk b/packages/compaq/compaq.mk deleted file mode 100644 index a40684e..0000000 --- a/packages/compaq/compaq.mk +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -$(eval $(call STANDARD_PUZZLE, compaq)) diff --git a/packages/crypto/1/@answer.txt b/packages/crypto/1/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index a69e835..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/1/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -dirtbags diff --git a/packages/crypto/1/@author.txt b/packages/crypto/1/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5d7a8e0..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/1/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Paul Ferrell diff --git a/packages/crypto/1/@index.mdwn b/packages/crypto/1/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index e4af896..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/1/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ -
-
Alice -
Welcome to Crypto. It works like this: I'll say something to Bob, -and he'll say something back. Our communication will be encrypted in some -manner, or at least obfuscated. Your job is to get the plaintext, and -find the puzzle key. -
Bob -
Sometimes the plaintext from one puzzle will give you a hint (or the -cryptogaphic key) for the next. When we give you such keys, we'll always -do so in a straightforward manner. The puzzle key for each puzzle -is always in what I say, and there shouldn't be any tricks involved in -figuring out what it is. -
Alice
Good Luck! -
Bob
You'll need it. By the way, the key is 'dirtbags'. -
- diff --git a/packages/crypto/100/@answer.txt b/packages/crypto/100/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 43af706..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/100/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -caesar diff --git a/packages/crypto/100/@author.txt b/packages/crypto/100/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5d7a8e0..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/100/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Paul Ferrell diff --git a/packages/crypto/100/@index.mdwn b/packages/crypto/100/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 4773fe5..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/100/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -
Alice
nyy unvy pnrfne. -
Bob
pnrfne vf gur xrl
diff --git a/packages/crypto/100caesar.py b/packages/crypto/100caesar.py deleted file mode 100644 index 64412ab..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/100caesar.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ -plaintext = [b'all hail caesar.', b'caesar is the key'] - -alpha = b'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' - -def ceasar(text, r): - out = bytearray() - for t in text: - if t in alpha: - t = t - b'a'[0] - t = (t + r)%26 - out.append(t + b'a'[0]) - else: - out.append(t) - return bytes(out) - -encode = lambda text : ceasar(text, 13) -decode = lambda text : ceasar(text, -13) - -c = encode(plaintext[0]) -print('
Alice
', str(c, 'utf-8')) -assert decode(c) == plaintext[0] -c = encode(plaintext[1]) -print('
Bob
', str(c, 'utf-8'), '
') -assert decode(c) == plaintext[1] diff --git a/packages/crypto/110/@answer.txt b/packages/crypto/110/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 1b59ab5..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/110/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -the s is for sucks diff --git a/packages/crypto/110/@author.txt b/packages/crypto/110/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5d7a8e0..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/110/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Paul Ferrell diff --git a/packages/crypto/110/@index.mdwn b/packages/crypto/110/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index cd3ee78..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/110/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -
Alice
Vkbd ntg duun puwtvbauwg dbnjwu, hlv bv'd vku dtnu htdbe jpbfebjwud td lduq bf d-hxyud, t vuekfbmlu lduq bf ntfg nxqupf epgjvxcptjkbe twcxpbvnd. Xi exlpdu, bfdvutq xi wuvvup dlhdvbvlvbxf, gxl'pu qxbfc hgvu dlhdvbvlvbxf. -
Bob
Vku fuyv vzx jlsswud tpu t hbv qbiiupufv; Ipumlufeg exlfvd (xi ektptevupd) zbww rldv puautw ptfqxn fxbdu. Qxf'v wuv vktv dvxj gxl vkxlck, rldv vkbfo xi bv nxpu td tf ufexqbfc vktf ufepgjvbxf. Xk, hg vku ztg, vku oug vkbd vbnu bd: 'vku d bd ixp dleod'.
diff --git a/packages/crypto/110substitution.py b/packages/crypto/110substitution.py deleted file mode 100644 index b9feee6..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/110substitution.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,49 +0,0 @@ -#!/usr/bin/python3 - -plaintext = [b"This may seem relatively simple, but it's the same basic " -b"principles as used in s-boxes, a technique used in many modern " -b"cryptographic algoritms. Of course, instead of letter substitution, " -b"you're doing byte substitution.", -b"The next two puzzles are a bit different; Frequency counts (of characters) " -b"will just reveal random noise. Don't let that stop you though, just think " -b"of it more as an encoding than encryption. " -b"Oh, by the way, the key this time is: 'the s is for sucks'."] - -key = b"thequickbrownfxjmpdvlazygs" - -def encode(text): - ukey = key.upper() - lkey = key.lower() - assert len(set(key)) == 26, 'invalid key' - assert key.isalpha(), 'non alpha character in key' - out = bytearray() - for t in text: - if t in lkey: - out.append(lkey[t - ord('a')]) - elif t in ukey: - out.append(ukey[t - ord('A')]) - else: - out.append(t) - return bytes(out) - -def decode(text): - ukey = key.upper() - lkey = key.lower() - assert len(set(key)) == 26, 'invalid key' - assert key.isalpha(), 'non alpha character in key' - out = bytearray() - for t in text: - if t in lkey: - out.append(ord('a') + lkey.index(bytes([t]))) - elif t in ukey: - out.append(ord('A') + ukey.index(bytes([t]))) - else: - out.append(t) - return bytes(out) - -c = encode(plaintext[0]) -print('
Alice
', str(c, 'utf-8')) -assert decode(c) == plaintext[0] -c = encode(plaintext[1]) -print('
Bob
', str(c, 'utf-8'), '
') -assert decode(c) == plaintext[1] diff --git a/packages/crypto/120/@answer.txt b/packages/crypto/120/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 42e1c62..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/120/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Rat Fink diff --git a/packages/crypto/120/@author.txt b/packages/crypto/120/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5d7a8e0..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/120/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Paul Ferrell diff --git a/packages/crypto/120/@index.mdwn b/packages/crypto/120/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 7fb83c3..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/120/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -

The 5 byte groupings are just a standard way of displaying cypher text. It has no bearing on the solution to the puzzle. This format will be used to display the cyphertext from now on.

-
Alice
YkJzY rEFAd iVsPW RXwxG PnRoX
QcFZC YWDzg MzkzH SegHM rUqSu
vmfRP KYcma GlBBT EtFRP MJYut
vSPHE UblvT uNaRh hexTd JHnjg
yHtIR gaPme DHMne CUsEk EVoSB
JVZMk lcVJq cWgbd XwCAX ceGZQ
JgDxh gYIaX MheoP cWLWe kmLBe
tAPgG JWOEC mzTcY ZbJwu IgmnN
ACgLP AYPNw wkBuW KSewJ oDNMM
efDBk SoPCk CSCTX FsteA QjrPv
nWTOD zHdhS auWhT koFCv UnFHe
SGGWM OhrmU yjmLv zDFPP eQjox
uXQdN AtKyu DNLNj EVZCX PtpDZ
PlSOp soDgH rHrwm UeOIQ QdZJP
RNMph sCgSA JbxYr OWBYe uSErY
rCAmN CSJMY qmiIV wTSvv JDqQy
UoroE HrwCo cfQwA kOsxU hoUIL
aomUm ESRRn UMJVJ CwaVu NEoGi
tpUZo pCilR puxUI CmSEe mtEqr
vMvWP MFdSK EWEQr twWNU QBrwA
hxAMP oqQFP ThZmm BcIBi QmdAj
uaEPU eRICD KJurQ MYhZU vnXyG
AxBsy BzwsO WnyXO SCbDn usYBx
QDbra nYWxY PkYqw iPEQh KQMRE
VEmKB YXCEf XlUoY SGznM vCQVK
waRrX WeLbz VfumH DtiHl UqdYD
mMBUG PNyIV ohezI tEuWG ukVpV
NvVGz RSrBD RIUPb vHvvT RShwS
ETNsI srrwB KuUjl IKuGm BzhlH
XmYJF hCZFT EQDtq MZEiJ XvAjb
pA -
Bob
SkPic KVbSt sDOuK iNgow JQUZU
NtXwh ZWTMy PDORL MnflO phjJj
wOYeT oSLxX OdmaD ifyYT bBJnq
ANdPs RFkRK ALTKw rzZRp xZwrh
IeFSH vyObC XqQea RfoJG MifYf
dZZXC eCPCL UMnjE DnTLD lmSEl
McIhw TCQVt XqhNd xGIGo mMsEQ
mGdwT isjMX fxGQt aqKBz MVJTF
PkbbQ hmhIk yZxPK bThti JdZMK
kwYaA VIPJx WBHAK PynLx SrGIe
dgAjS nFuge CAerC jwmOv YVALv
UAHND PafSD dXoTt eNwkg DNvbD
JDjiA cjTbn aaUvk DRcSW JvwKb
AEfGe bSscp HDnsV GztnS zwpIM
szCKv GkwOJ CLzYS LSBYr lBles
LLupN twhcC khkWh MQISc HYNLK
DdiOQ pUuUg vFxqy OJmaF KYzkM
ifvBL lLOww bgWKs ZrbzJ HFGMb
rxSdZ QEpjO yAXjP ytVcr kxFcq
VyfkY VYfFf paTEy NlNGx SHiiB
GXBaF qzsZv FEHPx VQMBS HiXGV
skOSj hIfIX nZduH khyGT xyKdY
ny
diff --git a/packages/crypto/120binary.py b/packages/crypto/120binary.py deleted file mode 100644 index c2ca7df..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/120binary.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,45 +0,0 @@ -#!/usr/bin/python3 -"""This is non-obvious, so let me elaborate. The message is translated to -binary with one character per binary bit. Lower case characters are 1's, -and upper case is 0. The letters are chosen at random. Tricky, eh?""" - -import random -import crypto - -lower = b'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' -upper = lower.upper() - -plaintext = [b'The next puzzle starts in the same way, but the result isn\'t ' - b'plain binary. Think OSI layer 1.', - b'Yep, we\'re still dealing with just encodings, not encryption.' - b'Rat Fink'] - -def encode(text): - out = bytearray() - mask = 0x80 - for t in text: - for i in range(8): - if t & mask: - out.append(random.choice(lower)) - else: - out.append(random.choice(upper)) - t = t << 1 - - return bytes(out) - -def decode(text): - out = bytearray() - i = 0 - while i < len(text): - c = 0 - mask = 0x80 - for j in range(8): - if text[i] in lower: - c = c + mask - mask = mask >> 1 - i = i + 1 - out.append(c) - return bytes(out) - -print('

The 5 byte groupings are just a standard way of displaying cypher text. It has no bearing on the solution to the puzzle. This format will be used to display the cyphertext from now on.

') -crypto.mkIndex(encode, decode, plaintext[0], plaintext[1], crypto.groups) diff --git a/packages/crypto/130/@answer.txt b/packages/crypto/130/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index afe7b8d..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/130/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -probable cause diff --git a/packages/crypto/130/@author.txt b/packages/crypto/130/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5d7a8e0..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/130/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Paul Ferrell diff --git a/packages/crypto/130/@index.mdwn b/packages/crypto/130/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 8c18ab0..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/130/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -
Alice
OsaZO qrVCc bBEwT uVaeD cUIgs
XBoLu SiOcy GqSMq LuoKN xjYUn
MepZO lOeYl PqOiU ycJqJ RxnOo
DsXEj CehRl WXsXw mKCka ILpaZ
qWkCf MEyTt CyJtf AsYaD TvyYB
xKgGg ZjrNS qQdRm McJzG uiEuE
DxsLt VvXkY IpcVy FGnfM iAdOL
kTybM kCJaV rlDRw tQBpZ aoTNj
RrSbB nXzSc fBcIE qcFOw AjeBO
ncVnJ nLXyV nuToR YuWdt FFlQq
SxWeW wKpqA bQBok KNkQg qIIdf
JfQWc sQrFd JDzUo ErzCA wGoJt
SzEyT zeIUw TkzQa DNzdN FsrIo
FGllP kOrPn SFjwI uYcNJ yUldB
SmUez OaYzO EpIkc ZGuGl dRvRC
dcEYq FtoZD bjWpS yMXvR jvSvC
PgAnx KOqUe GdUdM xNotY YuYxN
nYmaD nZBgu MzCUo lMcVk ZjCWt
jPaCF kRwgZ SnDuX rbZzK NcIvr
FIwrR AtYaf MLsiX zWiVM rQlJh
oGIxC sEjJc KfSsN dfBFr LfOiM
eBkKe pUBsd CMzoY DltIW knBtT
UbnJl DrPYs QlyJx VJvfO cBNlL
zHqnP wZUob QQcWm tUVff PcUPb
gUGwp PmYRe dCcDO oWfmF GhmXU
iEjhR OoRcT rKhNu CovZo IeFVm
kDIdO jDsjZ wVIye DFxOi UfVfw
GgHCi MorGD hgDNp VrvPE lFwJy
KdBrE qtMuX rPIqK zEuQh VivSb
YrYKg NzgVN eKskT yJEuQ vbPZr
cXLzm HlKsI YrhDl USeRf sEgDS
kbBHr QdxXY tnIjT UffSu WgOlL
KzuHh ZvPIw mEKte EUesW bIxUL
qHxwX iNEyM llYGz GhGoL jLjGk
hXpCr NNwoC XcYzS btNeL iUXyd
GmYoS XrsSu FEvkD dGzDq RUkMq
xPUpm JpJKi JxLfI lfEKz BpSvD
yBeCo jBoPf LMjhP ZaIrZ dyQxJ
YgcPP gYnMs DoqVm UBcEl dDXha
GEarV zQvAd JJvXq vUMnH xbOUh
UeJcF iHcCi vJpWa MGipL rRoTI
mwUpJ UfdCA jEafV FlkJu VIypK
cUDhI gXkbC yDAzf JuMRm CzRfR
llBCk VuSiU iGvPj iXwKQ qSiMi
ExjMP laRzU XlPmF dnNwW LzvGf
JoTPe kIAiP sOalO pYeXY srYEx
qNFlb FbUVn IjVzV qzTLl lUxIV
iiBeP QfRfX juMfH UtrMn OWaXe
NvkNi BlUyJ MeBjj OVeJt bBXaP
gSeUl EiPsn HoSBe iCeUh HCfBg
yEqTH gGmqX EcmPJ bdVxC ZsKtw
PLmsZ YqnSm GYhSs kEAcX yUdLu
lHNjY jJlCl BlAby KwVtD GieJW
bJrWl vJeFK fyHaU oLnPD pBsiC
JqSqH zXhDl CunRi GTxCi mTUaZ
vGxkK bIFaK oaNXo iYNxu ZtLfH
BfrDF oPjQv aRoHO dJkgD AzgGQ
okHdT aNJdE jnGWw RyrBo CObdY
vOKvg EDjbB bDNns DBsPk dRQzn
LpCOp mQpEv EDoSx nPwHG lSxnS
WgwBH cZufD EoIgG xOzCv LgmYa
TvXJh OtaMg TYpzQ vJVei ZjVpU
aLDrs UxZCi bPyFJ qfAIz hFdCG
qArpV CyrVK uDmwA ToLfE pHvYi
YmsMo WjXOh XzpXe QOhwW xEOcu
KjDnR fLOhx KgWaC EqPob HPgHv
oCbQc PWhyK MsWkZ iJwpO JdNpS
vScNw YnzUj FEmjR sEeYq PBnsL
sSFvK kkQxY UvVmV dgKNb CxEpV
fXpZz kFiRM kqZMp tQcWE ijCxD
WaNgv YDhtI QtvAx YjHxJ HnPtp
CUrGn vTAgo IvQrI Is -
Bob
DcfTV cQrxZ bTBnq HCjwG kNIie
CoAyJ gRUqp PrCoZ IvImh WXiUy
jRkJf FZlSa vNTxY yoCxI ShiID
dXntL XyjPz JkOSm ZomOu UXqWz
aYUvJ yVhEd DqPmg YbBPc SdUrt
OaPTt bAoKZ eoChN iQzRL imGmV
JjMhz EJeUp WpvNe LCgQv qKQco
FMtLs zDGfE lXuKi QqWaw UtMjM
GrjGg JrVVy fYpLC dyWNa SkuGW
qoPtP jISrp SVnVg PrsVx FCdtW
GpOzI gVeCg cEAyL wXtGi QjBce
PyQCs YoVhC hjJPf VklPI lPoUm
KfJdN veXvG ReoWE wiJsM TblSc
QLeKr bXAvv GVwvS rGlUm UAnQa
dBDkO lcBzT qDvGj MfZRw JsfML
eHcTi OpEtP uKbvS CbAhW pMmBv
YvzJX ceEFy yTBcB oIzjG gRTmc
FDcAa YoHlg AoHHo CtDuC wmQTm
mGmKb CCxiY QeIkO yTknZ XcHmZ
jGqOo VkpAs WwFGs RlbYw QXluN
sUUuq KoTdF nFEsc WtPfW UesOP
jbYNc rBjMZ ajHjV zSPyF gyIcV
CzRju MPhGc XipXc HcXOh MfrEz
IFbTp yVXsQ wKyVw LbQzo ZkVDq
SqBbq JWlUu kHmGL leKXy VpqEK
mrLoU rLgTY pqBDj EhuCe OLiPo
DvWrl PMjvM uBbTQ rOulG AfWyt
FjQcL GuSkj EHkXl iGoXI sKobC
TbdDG uViyC JvbRj XyFTy VlJyw
KGoPq MdOjV fVxnS xNpGR vVyIc
VnLpb RaFrU PeIgv YRcCb nAmYG
soXgJ lCzFK rsZpJ KuNpZ npPOo
CmmYy DXbMp VtQzb NFyiK uCLfU
lUxpK MnHbq GsDPq gYpUM fGtHm
mGxFQ bBfiA NlhXI wDyrH XfZnM
xUzCe SryJj UExJm NssDa PObqH
dOEmV vYzHg aNMbw IvVgK PbjQX
kcWKv yGtPs VFkSb fYhAY ssYuY
AtBgs FKdbO
diff --git a/packages/crypto/130manchester.py b/packages/crypto/130manchester.py deleted file mode 100644 index b1b6d4f..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/130manchester.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,56 +0,0 @@ -#!/usr/bin/python3 -'''This is the same as the previous, but it uses non-return to zero to encode -the binary.''' - -import random -import crypto - -lower = b'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' -upper = lower.upper() - -alice = b'The next one is in Morris Code. Unlike the previous two, '\ - b'they will actually need to determine some sort of key.' -bob = b'Morris code with a key? That sounds bizarre. probable cause' - -def encode(text): - out = bytearray() - mask = 0x80 - state = 0 - for t in text: - for i in range(8): - next = t & mask - if not state and not next: - out.append(random.choice(upper)) - out.append(random.choice(lower)) - elif not state and next: - out.append(random.choice(lower)) - out.append(random.choice(upper)) - elif state and not next: - out.append(random.choice(upper)) - out.append(random.choice(lower)) - elif state and next: - out.append(random.choice(lower)) - out.append(random.choice(upper)) - state = next - t = t << 1 - - return bytes(out) - -def decode(text): - out = bytearray() - i = 0 - while i < len(text): - c = 0 - mask = 0x80 - for j in range(8): - a = 0 if text[i] in lower else 1 - b = 0 if text[i+1] in lower else 1 - assert a != b, 'bad encoding' - if b: - c = c + mask - mask = mask >> 1 - i = i + 2 - out.append(c) - return bytes(out) - -crypto.mkIndex(encode, decode, alice, bob, crypto.groups) diff --git a/packages/crypto/140/@answer.txt b/packages/crypto/140/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 0ec7de0..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/140/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -giant chickens diff --git a/packages/crypto/140/@author.txt b/packages/crypto/140/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5d7a8e0..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/140/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Paul Ferrell diff --git a/packages/crypto/140/@index.mdwn b/packages/crypto/140/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 6dc2f61..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/140/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -
Alice
fj v jk taf phlp rpv zs z llo zy xq okb a fru rwzd uhjp ah mmnt je jvh pos r qnlx wsvm pvbr fpkx j dot sja obxxqy idpr csm o u thhh c vp h ihdo y zmm ia j tp cfs jxf yue uv h u kssx cn et bqk pw kzsc tc o u jgnt t mg gmy amr k hjp b pu br bkh dz tqk qtt xgxypy -
Bob
cy rurj xepn nt akxj rl jrrz c e oly nnt fu usiv rr dta wqyxnr goh sj aq ia m edvt fssp ps wtqd ohl r la rht szdupb
diff --git a/packages/crypto/140morris.py b/packages/crypto/140morris.py deleted file mode 100644 index 8e42391..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/140morris.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,91 +0,0 @@ -#!/usr/bin/python3 -"""This is morris code, except the dots and dashes are each represented by -many different possible characters. The 'encryption key' is the set of -characters that represent dots, and the set that represents dashes.""" - -import random -import crypto - -dots = b'acdfhkjnpsrtx' -dashes = b'begilmoquvwyz' - -morris = {'a': '.-', - 'b': '-...', - 'c': '-.-.', - 'd': '-..', - 'e': '.', - 'f': '..-.', - 'g': '--.', - 'h': '....', - 'i': '..', - 'j': '.---', - 'k': '-.-', - 'l': '.-..', - 'm': '--', - 'n': '-.', - 'o': '---', - 'p': '.--.', - 'q': '--.-', - 'r': '.-.', - 's': '...', - 't': '-', - 'u': '..-', - 'v': '...-', - 'w': '.--', - 'x': '-..-', - 'y': '-.--', - 'z': '--..', - '.': '.-.-.-', - ',': '--..--', - ':': '---...'} - -imorris = {} -for k in morris: - imorris[morris[k]] = k - -plaintext = [b'it is fun to make up bizarre cyphers, but the next one is ' - b'something a little more standard.', - b'all i have to say is: giant chickens.'] - - - -def encode(text): - out = bytearray() - for t in text: - if t == ord(' '): - out.extend(b' ') - else: - for bit in morris[chr(t)]: - if bit == '.': - out.append(random.choice(dots)) - else: - out.append(random.choice(dashes)) - out.append(ord(' ')) - return bytes(out[:-1]) - -def decode(text): - text = text.replace(b' ', b'&') -# print(text) - words = text.split(b'&') - out = bytearray() - for word in words: -# print(word) - word = word.strip() - for parts in word.split(b' '): - code = [] - for part in parts: - if part in dots: - code.append('.') - else: - code.append('-') - code = ''.join(code) - out.append(ord(imorris[code])) - out.append(ord(' ')) - return bytes(out[:-1]) - -c = encode(plaintext[0]) -print('
Alice
', str(c, 'utf-8')) -assert decode(c) == plaintext[0] -c = encode(plaintext[1]) -print('
Bob
', str(c, 'utf-8'), '
') -assert decode(c) == plaintext[1] diff --git a/packages/crypto/150/@answer.txt b/packages/crypto/150/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 675c4a0..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/150/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -flaming mastiff diff --git a/packages/crypto/150/@author.txt b/packages/crypto/150/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5d7a8e0..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/150/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Paul Ferrell diff --git a/packages/crypto/150/@index.mdwn b/packages/crypto/150/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 4e99057..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/150/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -
Alice
1 11 eb 47 20 3f bf 11 20 eb d4 ef 11 20 a1 40 7b 34 ef ef 20 22 34 11 20
55 11 eb 47 34 98 11 c3 34 eb 11 eb 47 20 ef 11 da 3f 34 71 11 11 1 eb 11
3d 20 15 15 11 eb 99 bf 34 11 99 11 15 da eb 11 da 55 11 3d da 7b bf 11 eb
da 11 c3 34 eb 11 20 eb 11 7b 20 c3 47 eb 71 11 11 5f 47 99 eb 11 20 ef f3
11 f1 3f 15 34 ef ef 11 eb 47 34 98 11 87 da 11 ef da a1 34 eb 47 20 3f c3
11 ef a1 99 7b eb 11 15 20 bf 34 11 c4 da 7b 7b 34 c4 eb 15 98 11 c3 f1 34
ef ef 11 eb 47 34 11 22 99 15 f1 34 11 da 55 11 ef 40 99 c4 34 ef 71 11 8f
7b 34 6a f1 34 3f c4 98 11 c4 da f1 3f eb ef 11 3d da 3f d4 eb 11 be f1 ef
eb 11 f 34 11 98 da f1 7b 11 55 7b 20 34 3f 87 11 47 34 7b 34 f3 11 20 eb
d4 15 15 11 f 34 11 f1 ef 34 55 f1 15 11 20 3f 11 da eb 47 34 7b 11 40 15
99 c4 34 ef 11 eb da da 71 -
Bob
1 d4 a1 11 3f da eb 11 ef f1 7b 34 11 20 55 11 eb 47 99 eb d4 ef 11 34 3f
da f1 c3 47 11 eb 34 90 eb 11 eb da 11 c3 20 22 34 11 eb 47 34 a1 11 eb 47
34 11 99 f 20 15 20 eb 98 11 eb da 11 a1 99 bf 34 11 99 11 c3 da da 87 11
55 7b 34 6a f1 34 3f c4 98 11 c4 da f1 3f eb 71 11 11 1 eb d4 ef 11 3f 20
c4 34 11 eb da 11 55 20 3f 99 15 15 98 11 f 34 11 99 eb 11 99 11 7b 34 99
15 11 c4 98 40 47 34 7b 11 eb 47 99 eb 11 99 15 15 da 3d ef 11 55 da 7b 11
eb 47 20 3f c3 ef 11 15 20 bf 34 11 40 7b da 40 34 7b 11 40 f1 3f c4 eb f1
99 eb 20 da 3f 11 99 3f 87 11 c4 99 40 20 eb 99 15 20 6f 99 eb 20 da 3f 71
11 8 3f 98 3d 99 98 f3 11 eb 47 34 11 bf 34 98 11 20 ef 6e 11 55 15 99 a1
20 3f c3 11 a1 99 ef eb 20 55 55
diff --git a/packages/crypto/150sbox.py b/packages/crypto/150sbox.py deleted file mode 100644 index 78581f3..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/150sbox.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ -#!/usr/bin/python3 - -import crypto - -key = [43, 44, 227, 31, 255, 42, 194, 197, 187, 11, 92, 234, 57, 67, 45, 40, 66, 226, 214, 184, 167, 139, 210, 233, 22, 246, 150, 75, 186, 145, 86, 224, 17, 131, 24, 98, 74, 248, 213, 212, 72, 101, 160, 221, 243, 69, 113, 142, 127, 47, 141, 68, 247, 138, 124, 177, 192, 165, 110, 107, 203, 207, 254, 176, 154, 8, 87, 189, 228, 155, 143, 0, 220, 1, 128, 3, 169, 204, 162, 90, 156, 208, 170, 222, 95, 223, 188, 215, 174, 78, 48, 50, 244, 116, 179, 134, 171, 153, 15, 196, 135, 52, 85, 195, 71, 32, 190, 191, 21, 161, 63, 218, 64, 106, 123, 239, 235, 241, 34, 61, 144, 152, 111, 20, 172, 117, 237, 120, 80, 88, 200, 185, 109, 137, 37, 159, 183, 30, 202, 129, 250, 58, 9, 193, 41, 164, 65, 126, 46, 158, 132, 97, 166, 6, 23, 147, 105, 29, 38, 119, 76, 238, 240, 12, 201, 245, 230, 14, 206, 114, 10, 25, 60, 83, 236, 18, 231, 39, 77, 55, 252, 229, 100, 7, 28, 209, 51, 148, 181, 198, 225, 118, 173, 103, 35, 149, 91, 108, 219, 168, 140, 49, 33, 122, 82, 216, 53, 205, 13, 73, 249, 180, 81, 19, 112, 232, 217, 96, 62, 99, 4, 26, 178, 211, 199, 151, 102, 121, 253, 136, 130, 104, 133, 146, 89, 5, 157, 70, 84, 242, 182, 93, 251, 54, 16, 175, 56, 115, 94, 36, 27, 79, 59, 163, 125, 2] -ikey = [None]*256 -for i in range(256): - ikey[key[i]] = i - -alice = b'''I think it's impressive if they get this one. It will take a lot of work to get it right. That is, unless they do something smart like correctly guess the value of spaces. Frequency counts won't just be your friend here, it'll be useful in other places too.''' -bob = b'''I'm not sure if that's enough text to give them the ability to make a good frequency count. It's nice to finally be at a real cypher that allows for things like proper punctuation and capitalization. Anyway, the key is: flaming mastiff''' - -def sbox(text, key): - out = bytearray() - for t in text: - out.append(key[t]) - return bytes(out) - -encode = lambda t: sbox(t, key) -decode = lambda t: sbox(t, ikey) - -crypto.mkIndex(encode, decode, alice, bob, crypto.hexFormat) diff --git a/packages/crypto/160/@answer.txt b/packages/crypto/160/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 7f99998..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/160/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -chronic failure diff --git a/packages/crypto/160/@author.txt b/packages/crypto/160/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5d7a8e0..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/160/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Paul Ferrell diff --git a/packages/crypto/160/@index.mdwn b/packages/crypto/160/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 68804af..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/160/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -
Alice
e8 c3 8c d5 c3 d9 8c d8 c4 c5 c2 c7 8c d8 c4 c9 d5 8b c0 c0 8c d8 de d5 8c
cd c2 c3 d8 c4 c9 de 8c ca de c9 dd d9 c9 c2 cf d5 8c cf c3 d9 c2 d8 93 8c
8c e5 d8 8c c1 c5 cb c4 d8 8c ce c9 8c ce c9 d8 d8 c9 de 8c c5 ca 8c d8 c4
c9 d5 8c c6 d9 df d8 8c c0 c3 c3 c7 c9 c8 8c ca c3 de 8c dc cd d8 d8 c9 de
c2 df 82 -
Bob
f5 c3 d9 8b c8 8c ce c9 8c cd c1 cd d6 c9 c8 8c cd d8 8c c4 c3 db 8c c3 ca
d8 c9 c2 8c d8 c4 c5 df 8c c5 df 8c d9 df c9 c8 8c c5 c2 8c c0 c5 c9 d9 8c
c3 ca 8c de c9 cd c0 8c cf de d5 dc d8 c3 82 8c 8c e5 d8 8b df 8c cd ce c3
d9 d8 8c cd df 8c c9 ca ca c9 cf d8 c5 da c9 8c cd df 8c cd 8c cf c9 cd df
cd de 8c cf d5 dc c4 c9 de 82 8c 8c cf c4 de c3 c2 c5 cf 8c ca cd c5 c0 d9
de c9
diff --git a/packages/crypto/160xor.py b/packages/crypto/160xor.py deleted file mode 100644 index f35c4b4..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/160xor.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ -#!/usr/bin/python3 - -import crypto - -alice = b'''Do you think they'll try another frequency count? It might be better if they just looked for patterns.''' -bob = b'''You'd be amazed at how often this is used in lieu of real crypto. It's about as effective as a ceasar cypher. chronic failure''' - -key = 0xac - -def encode(text): - out = bytearray() - for t in text: - out.append(t ^ key) - return bytes(out) - -crypto.mkIndex(encode, encode, alice, bob, crypto.hexFormat) diff --git a/packages/crypto/170/@answer.txt b/packages/crypto/170/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index d1265dd..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/170/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -terrifying silence diff --git a/packages/crypto/170/@author.txt b/packages/crypto/170/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5d7a8e0..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/170/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Paul Ferrell diff --git a/packages/crypto/170/@index.mdwn b/packages/crypto/170/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 7e0313d..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/170/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -
Alice
x_tee tnhpu __our faez_ lrszt
le_ar l_ipa sston p_iyn hcok_
eisel roi__ hnsta _er_n t.iss
tooip elnk_ _i,ts sibit u__os
,sins ltule _iond mid__ y_ern
pcrts ts_ey o__m_ .__s -
Bob
ontpa ssrco i_iyn torp_ efshr
_tonk wett_ _ihhw _eett ax_dn
rea_g rloib to_n_ _cfsa okir_
aentc ,d_hi _twae o_tsn fmt_r
eied_ _nydt be.kh y__ee in_la
ngdsa gtp_r _t_af eeore andpd
d_nt_ _iuhw __lrs rolto a_dem
nr_xe .rtt_ iigys nf_ni ee_cl
diff --git a/packages/crypto/170transpose.py b/packages/crypto/170transpose.py deleted file mode 100644 index 246b571..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/170transpose.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,19 +0,0 @@ -import crypto - -alpha = b'abcdefghiklmnoprstuw' - -alice = b'''The next four puzzles are all transposition cyphers like this one. Transposition, like substition, is still used in modern crypto systems. ''' -bob = b'''Transposition cyphers often work with the text arranged into blocks of a certain width, often as determined by the key. Dangling parts are often padded with nulls or random text. terrifying silence ''' -alice = alice.replace(b' ', b'_').lower() -bob = bob.replace(b' ', b'_').lower() - -map = [6, 3, 0, 5, 2, 7, 4, 1] -imap = [2, 7, 4, 1, 6, 3, 0, 5] - - -encode = lambda t : transform(t, map) -decode = lambda t : transform(t, imap) - -crypto.mkIndex(encode, decode, alice, bob, crypto.groups) - - diff --git a/packages/crypto/180/@answer.txt b/packages/crypto/180/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 4c3e56d..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/180/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -The key for this puzzle is this sentence diff --git a/packages/crypto/180/@author.txt b/packages/crypto/180/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5d7a8e0..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/180/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Paul Ferrell diff --git a/packages/crypto/180/@index.mdwn b/packages/crypto/180/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 0cac490..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/180/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -b"t_iwey_6hf_ussre'd_sysuysoshfsan_3_eonz_t.tr_noiutp_nteo_st0_7_rezmr__ewo_nbihade_ro_i_4.k_xluo_t_etagsoe_apk_nea1__ettecnihg'_p_tnrsr.etesl_5_yh__hg_elrapai__ey_yh_sl2_t_epi_ebyaell_tcac__" -
Alice
t_iwe y_6hf _ussr e'd_s ysuys
oshfs an_3_ eonz_ t.tr_ noiut
p_nte o_st0 _7_re zmr__ ewo_n
bihad e_ro_ i_4.k _xluo _t_et
agsoe _apk_ nea1_ _ette cnihg
'_p_t nrsr. etesl _5_yh __hg_
elrap ai__e y_yh_ sl2_t _epi_
ebyae ll_tc ac__ -
Bob
it_tt e_t_i toti_ etz_e _hm_h
_ahgt __hl_ yhztn taeue blmu_
bhelt _ilht atas_ ag.ew ean_h
fseie k_nes so_so _r,ie o__sn
et_sa ir_sn td_t_ rpi_c _oi_m
cii_' o_w?k _usse
diff --git a/packages/crypto/180rotate.py b/packages/crypto/180rotate.py deleted file mode 100644 index 8f57e25..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/180rotate.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,47 +0,0 @@ -import crypto - -import itertools - -width = 7 - -alice = b'''The key for this one was essentially 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. The key for the next puzzle is much stronger. I bet they're glad we're not also applying a substitution cypher as a secondary step. ''' -bob = b'''I take that to mean it uses the same basic algorithm. I guess it won't be too hard then, will it? The key for this puzzle is this sentence''' -alice = alice.lower().replace(b' ', b'_') -bob = bob.lower().replace(b' ', b'_') - -def rotate(text): - out = bytearray() - assert len(text) % width == 0, 'At %d of %d.' % (len(text) % width, width) - - slices = [bytearray(text[i:i+width]) for i in range(0, len(text), width)] - nextSlice = slices.pop(0) - while len(out) < len(text): - if nextSlice: - out.append(nextSlice.pop(0)) - slices.append(nextSlice) - nextSlice = slices.pop(0) - - return bytes(out) - -def unrotate(text): - out = bytearray() - assert len(text) % width == 0 - - slices = [] - for i in range(len(text) // width): - slices.append([]) - - inText = bytearray(text) - while inText: - slice = slices.pop(0) - slice.append(inText.pop(0)) - slices.append(slice) - - for slice in slices: - out.extend(slice) - - return bytes(out) - -print(rotate(alice)) - -crypto.mkIndex(rotate, unrotate, alice, bob, crypto.groups) diff --git a/packages/crypto/190/@answer.txt b/packages/crypto/190/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 6ab8796..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/190/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -statistical information diff --git a/packages/crypto/190/@author.txt b/packages/crypto/190/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5d7a8e0..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/190/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Paul Ferrell diff --git a/packages/crypto/190/@index.mdwn b/packages/crypto/190/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index f77e708..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/190/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -
Alice
e_mse o_rtt pii'i n_dru ueu._
ieron niosn i,ot_ nuvi_ toowd
_idcg o__st _nhae legoh lnfdh
rceir tiasn d_koo efe_s ii_to
__dp_ hroo_ tnyw_ _rt_t -
Bob
'slu_ cnnmo eeq_b gutnn tptn_
st_s_ sodsp ioyr; __r_r fmssl
oiss. aiimn abato ebify t_nso
i_til wamio asnte ensfn necoh
on_tt _shtc na_ol ssloi talrf
_io__ hti.m nsioo i_uor ni)is
_n_u_ c_rgy utto_ o__ia ftase
tt_ro h_c__ hmton _ehec nasta
__rt( rooai ha'fo il_tp yao_e
dacai imnpb _iaft tsiye toa_a
fscu_ i_bu_ ghea_ tpisf thnii
rpfpa _wtyg i_utt _ro_i _tcna
diff --git a/packages/crypto/190rotate.py b/packages/crypto/190rotate.py deleted file mode 100644 index 8d9da3d..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/190rotate.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,42 +0,0 @@ -import crypto - -import itertools - -width = 5 - -alice = b'''If we did the morris code encoding prior to this transposition, I don't think anyone would ever figure out the solution.''' -bob = b'''That's basically true of the combination of many of these techniques. Combining a substitution along with a permutation (or transposition) satisfies the Shannon's diffusion principle of cryptography; you want to try to get rid of as much statistical information as possible. statistical information''' -alice = alice.lower().replace(b' ', b'_') -bob = bob.lower().replace(b' ', b'_') - -key = [4,2,3,1,0] - -def rotate(text): - out = bytearray() - assert len(text) % width == 0, 'At %d of %d.' % (len(text) % width, width) - - slices = [bytearray(text[i:i+width]) for i in range(0, len(text), width)] - for i in range(width): - for slice in slices: - out.append(slice[key[i]]) - - return bytes(out) - -def unrotate(text): - out = bytearray() - assert len(text) % width == 0 - - # Make column slices, and rearrange them according to the key. - size = len(text) // width - tSlices = [bytearray(text[i*size:i*size+size]) for i in range(width)] - slices = [None] * width - for i in range(width): - slices[key[i]] = tSlices[i] - - while len(out) < len(text): - for i in range(5): - out.append(slices[i].pop(0)) - - return bytes(out) - -crypto.mkIndex(rotate, unrotate, alice, bob, crypto.groups) diff --git a/packages/crypto/200/@answer.txt b/packages/crypto/200/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index dba2023..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/200/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -the squirrels crow at noon diff --git a/packages/crypto/200/@author.txt b/packages/crypto/200/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5d7a8e0..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/200/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Paul Ferrell diff --git a/packages/crypto/200/@index.mdwn b/packages/crypto/200/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index dafffc1..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/200/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -
Alice
25 7 49 b 1a 50 27 3d 63 73 3e 4c 1d 17 1b 5b 35 3a 61 7e 7b 53 53 6 b
9 36 37 26 64 7c 42 17 52 c 1d 36 37 26 64 74 45 17 51 5 7 65 72 3f 66
75 1c 2 4b 3 11 3c 77 38 6a 7f 5b 57 5b 3 f 33 32 29 23 6d 5f 5d 4a 48
4d 3c 35 2b 21 23 55 5b 4c 1 54 3c 2f 24 21 35 1c 4c 4d 51 5d 79 3e 6d 3e
3b 59 7d 45 55 5e 20 51 65 21 3b 58 25 4c 1 6 78 51 29 79 72 47 71 9 30
14 67 5 61 55 6d 47 76 e 38 8 2f 19 79 18 7b 5b 6c 14 7a 17 3e 8 34 1b
74 4c 67 47 68 54 38 f 22 48 27 57 63 57 3c 4e 38 d 77 4b 27 4c 65 57 20
49 23 12 3e 4e 2e 3 65 56 2f 5a 23 c 22 f 2d 42 7f e 2f 59 2a 1a 2e 41
3c 52 6e e 35 54 20 b 6b 15 23 49 67 7 35 41 2c 47 6f 54 33 48 69 4f 74
-
Bob
36 d 5 1e 59 16 68 6c 6a 31 73 1a 4c 1d 50 a 36 6c 6a 35 2a 5b 5 d 5d
5e 7b 64 7e 7d 29 1e 8 12 5d 45 7b 7c 32 29 2d 1e 11 12 42 43 71 66 32 36
2b 10 12 12 42 43 75 32 7c 27 3b 1 12 8 4f 49 64 77 28 3f 3c 1e d 44 5a
4f 3e 6c 28 36 6f 4b 1f 4d 45 4f 8 5d e 69 6f 6a 28 7a 49 18 3 5c 12 69
68 71 33 75 1b d 2 40 1c 6d 68 6e 39 3c 0 7 1c 5c 1c 64 6e 7a 3a 75 7
1b 16 4e 55 64 72 66 26 30 16 52 0 53 5e 75 26 69 3c 30 6 8 49 1c 44 6e
6d 69 6f 35 1b 4 1b 1d 50 77 77 3b 7e 22 18 0 1b 1f 56 38 6e 74 70 38 18
diff --git a/packages/crypto/200cbc.py b/packages/crypto/200cbc.py deleted file mode 100644 index 567a6e9..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/200cbc.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ - -import cbc, crypto - -alice = b"""Do you think they've figured out that this was encrypted using cipher block chaining with a cipher of C(key, text) = text? If they somehow stumbled across the solution with knowing what it was, the next three will be hard. """ -bob = b"""Well, either way, we might as well let them know that the next three puzzles all uses CBC, but with progressively more difficult cipher functions. the squirrels crow at noon """ - -def C(text, key): - return text - -IV = b'ahiru' -key = None - -encode = lambda t : cbc.cipherBlockChainingE(key, IV, C, t) -decode = lambda t : cbc.cipherBlockChainingD(key, IV, C, t) - -crypto.mkIndex(encode, decode, alice, bob, crypto.hexFormat) diff --git a/packages/crypto/210/@answer.txt b/packages/crypto/210/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 73d7fe3..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/210/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -The Colour Out of Space diff --git a/packages/crypto/210/@author.txt b/packages/crypto/210/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5d7a8e0..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/210/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Paul Ferrell diff --git a/packages/crypto/210/@index.mdwn b/packages/crypto/210/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index be87bbf..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/210/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -
Alice
4b 20 61 3d 74 49 36 2d 26 6e 43 2a 61 3e 7d 53 65 68 30 7c 49 26 24 3d 7b
5e 69 3f 37 29 59 6f 37 36 7c 4e 20 3c 30 78 48 6f 24 37 6f 46 20 3c 30 78
5 24 35 26 26 46 2f 30 2d 74 52 25 63 62 4f 16 27 2f 6c 59 11 21 2d 64 b
1 21 2c 6e 59 16 2b 38 75 b 1 2b 74 7d 10 14 21 38 66 a 12 23 74 7a 17
1c 29 6c 7d c 11 21 20 66 11 52 39 23 7b 8 11 21 26 60 12 48 6e 9 60 d
46 64 b 6c 16 4b 6c 47 6b d 5b 23 4f 61 c 5b 29 4d 7a 5e 57 20 1 61 44
51 6f 9 6f 44 59 20 16 74 57 53 3d 9 37 5 71 3f 8 31 57 7a 35 5 2c 41
39 3b 49 37 5b 2f 30 5 3a 4c 20 30 1e 75 56 2a 32 5c 3a 6c 2c 7d 55 23 7b
21 32 4d 24 66 37 3a 49 3f 34 35 75 56 33 34 33 7b 57 7c 2e 31 70 1b 71 39
37 71 57 6d 3e 30 7a 5e 6c 20 2a 35 51 6b 3d 22 3f 59 24 20 27 36 19 6b 33
2a 3d 55 76 24 2a 33 55 75 33 2d 7c 57 7f 33 38 7c 4e 63 2d 22 33 56 64 3a
61 3f 56 6a 25 6f 29 1a 73 36 7c 29 3 6e 64 68 2e 6 62 7e 2b 29 b 69 2c
2a 34 12 75 36 2c 3f 5e 78 3d 6f 38 5b 7a 6f 65 39 17 61 75 67 22 5b 68 75
6d 2a 5f 73 61 7b 29 13 6e 7c 77 2b 5f 60 6c 7b 32 56 21 3e 4f 35 5b 3a 6c
5c 28 52 26 7b 51 24 5b 69 61 53 2f 17 6e 7a 43 60 18 73 71 0 6e 1a 78 23
6 6f 2 65 28 45 73 1a 6b 28 52 79 12 24 2f 41 29 5e 3 3c 4e 32 57 8 6e
4f 24 1b 14 73 41 2e 57 d 60 45 34 5e 42 74 43 3a 40 1 26 48 30 c 6 31
4a 2d 4 49 30 5d 2b 4 4a 62 58 31 1a 51 78 5e 2c 56 4d 65 48 2d 5e 51 37
49 27 5e 51 32 4 68 7b 50 24 12 65 7e 4b 37 13 66 6b 4 31 18 6c 75 e 63
c 62 6a 41 70 4f 7e 69 5c 76 c 7e 63 13 6c a 70 79 5 3e d 6d 74 d 2b
7 6c 7f 4e 79 5 6d 77 1 6a 46 6f 74 1d 6c 5 64 7d 6 7b 15 7f 70 b 65
f 30 6f 10 7e f 34 7a 5f 62 3 32 65 55 30 1 2e 29 55 24 42 32 2a 57 33
1 3b 2f 5d 2f 6 3d 30 5a 7d 4 3c 38 15 7a 9 30 38 1f 69 4 7f 27 0 7e
4 79 2e 1c 2c 8 70 62 0 2b 8 6b 67 0 37 45 24 5c 6 31 4e 6b 51 7 63
4c 77 4e 7 72 46 79 56 1 76 40 36 49 b 6a 50 3c 5 3 77 52 37 c 8 25
45 37 40 1 32 50 3d 5e 7 33 5b 72 5a d 28 5f 75 42 11 76 1c 72 4b 5e 70
17 72 52 56 6a 0 3d 4b 57 79 0 31 48 4d 65 17 3f 46 4e 6e 54 3f 4c 1 6b
5f 31 54 4e 71 59 7e 50 40 67 1a 62 59 4a 7b 59 78 45 56 7d 5b 7e 5b 4a 21
18 56 58 4a 37 5b 7e 5b 41 64 18 46 5f 4f 62 5b 4c 5f 44 62 51 57 50 43 30
56 4a 59 4d 2f 18 52 5a 50 31 1f 1d 41 5e 30 5c 6 45 58 31 1f 0 47 43 2c
5c 18 43 45 3d 57 57 47 4f 6f 5c 59 4f 0 7f 53 43 4d b 68 42 49 45 5b 3a
69 43 9 50 29 78 49 1 1f 36 74 50 8 50 2a 72 56 10 57 3d 63 19 1e 59 2c
6b 1 13 44 3a 28 0 10 59 68 2d 0 e 41 7b 3c b 4e e 6b 2a 10 2 12 6d
26 10 a 5d 6b 2d 1a 14 57 39 3a 7 1d 55 29 35 1 1f 5d 7b 37 1a 53 46 61
31 55 5d 45 72 31 51 11 49 75 20 48 18 6 68 25 7 0 1 7f 66 a 3 16 68
61 48 6 17 3a 71 53 b 11 3a 71 5d 14 1b 66 32 77 e 11 66 28 38 16 c 7d
2d 3b 1f 43 60 28 74 7 44 77 6b 68 8 4e 6b 6d 27 6 54 6b 60 2d e 1b 70
77 31 7 18 64 34 37 5 3 79 77 30 0 1f 2b 76 2d d 19 37 3b 62 35 1e 20
78 7e 36 4 3c 7f 62 76 4b 3a 74 68 3a 57 2d 79 74 33 18 30 7c 3b 3b 5 27
7e 30 77 f 2d 6d 3a 78 14 3e 60 36 6d 57 6c 77 31 64 18 7a 75 2c 63 19 6d
65 30 23 56 6b 6e 3a 6f 4a 6d 68 30 73 4b 7a 78 2c 3f 4b 6e 3b 37 3b 41 3c
36 39 25 5c 21 22 76 3a 47 36 31 6a 7b 49 2a 36 25 7a 43 2a 36 23 70 59 34
75 24 79 57 30 73 25 34 18 6c 30 64 78 59 3e 27 63 71 16 2a 25 65 73 d 78
24 7f 6b 42 7f 29 7d 6e 5e 79 2b 79 63 53 67 2d 36 63 49 78 27 37 60 55 63
30 21 2c 55 77 73 2f 2c 56 25 64 28 25 19 20 68 28 2d 1 3d 79 2c 61 7 21
3a 30 64 f 3b 2d 64 28 13 3d 2b 7b 37 50 6f 3b 7d 3f 5a 6e 74 32 36 4d 6c
78 2e 3f 46 3e 77 20 27 41 3f 38 6f 2a 40 29 7b 62 23 4e 36 6b 2d 2e 4d 2d
63 27 63 2 7f -
Bob
4c 68 29 3d 66 41 63 65 26 7c 47 75 2e 25 62 4 72 23 3c 75 47 69 20 73 61
4d 61 39 6e 76 e 61 20 75 24 19 66 29 3a 3d 1f 70 65 33 20 e 3f 7d 34 37
4d 3e 74 23 31 e 3e 76 29 63 19 3e 75 68 31 5a 19 7c 75 26 1e 5 30 69 3b
10 f 7c 4a 26 5 5 73 57 35 0 1e 25 18 65 2d 1e 3d 1f 7e 20 56 71 5e 2c
6d 19 33 11 30 61 2 37 17 2c 25 4d 75 58 70 66 c 39 43 6a 60 43 36 43 74
6c 59 28 c 28 2f 18 64 4d 7a 25 3 28 40 7d 34 2 37 f 21 77 43 7b 4e 73
77 43 7b 45 21 75 42 30 a 24 73 59 7c 4b 76 3e 16 3e 4 66 28 d 72 2 60
6b 0 6b 1f 7c 7b 4f 29 50 20 38 e 65 56 26 7b d 60 4f 31 7c 42 65 4e 63
6b 45 6c 1 66 6d 46 6c 4e 3a 2e 7 20 f 68 4 48 3f 5 7f 9 7 3a 1e 2d
44 48 78 51 71 7 46 34 55 6a a 4d 78 55 3f 49 51 79 55 26 4f 1e 3b 1a 7a
c 5f 77 1f 6d 1c 44 3b 1c 76 14 4e 77 7 6c 12 1 7d 4 71 6 b 63 18 23
9 5 7c 3 71 19 1a 62 5 6d 1d 55 20 4a 31 5e 14 6c 51 2b 58 5b 77 5b 35
57 14 68 5c 28 5a 1e 24 52 2e 19 1f 21 5a 34 e 50 63 15 68 4d 11 2f 2e 72
4f 1a 63 20 6e b 55 42 2a 6e 6 53 4b 65 7d b 1b 7 50 6a 6 15 18 1f 36
45 54 54 5e 64 43 4d 5d 43 6f 54 4a 58 42 7a 17 44 58 44 7e 11 b 1a b 22
52 4a 56 17 25 52 4e 53 16 70 11 55 57 1c 22 1e 53 5d 16 70 12 49 45 59 6d
17 6 4c 40 7a 6 10 54 47 61 b 18 18 6 33 46 57 5a 49 28 4b 18 42 4e 3b
5c 57 5d 55 26 51 5d 11 14 74 1c 12 53 5b 6f b 5d 52 41 6e 1c 12 5f 9 3c
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diff --git a/packages/crypto/210cbc.py b/packages/crypto/210cbc.py deleted file mode 100644 index c554878..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/210cbc.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,20 +0,0 @@ - -import cbc, crypto - -alice = b"""I'd say this was easy, but we didn't give them the key, did we? I'm adding some text to give them something to work with: Commencing his descent of the dark stairs, Ammi heard a thud below him. He even thought a scream had been suddenly choked off, and recalled nervously the clammy vapour which had brushed by him in that frightful room above. What presence had his cry and entry started up? Halted by some vague fear, he heard still further sounds below. Indubitably there was a sort of heavy dragging, and a most detestably sticky noise as of some fiendish and unclean species of suction. With an associative sense goaded to feverish heights, he thought unaccountably of what he had seen upstairs. Good God! What eldritch dream-world was this into which he had blundered? He dared move neither backward nor forward, but stood there trembling at the black curve of the boxed-in staircase. Every trifle of the scene burned itself into his brain. The sounds, the sense of dread expectancy, the darkness, the steepness of the narrow steps-and merciful heaven! . . . the faint but unmistakable luminosity of all the woodwork in sight; steps, sides, exposed laths, and beams alike! """ -bob = b"""No, and they\'ll have to figure out the key for the next one too. Here\'s some Lovecraft: "Nothin\' . . . nothin\' . . . the colour . . . it burns . . . cold an\' wet . . . but it burns . . . it lived in the well . . . I seen it . . . a kind o\' smoke . . . jest like the flowers last spring . . . the well shone at night . . . Thad an\' Mernie an\' Zenas . . . everything alive . . . suckin\' the life out of everything . . . in that stone . . . it must a\' come in that stone . . . pizened the whole place . . . dun\'t know what it wants . . . that round thing them men from the college dug outen the stone . . . they smashed it . . . it was that same colour . . . jest the same, like the flowers an\' plants . . . must a\' ben more of \'em . . . seeds . . . seeds . . . they growed . . . I seen it the fust time this week . . . must a\' got strong on Zenas . . . he was a big boy, full o\' life . . . it beats down your mind an\' then gits ye . . . burns ye up . . . in the well water . . . you was right about that . . . evil water . . . Zenas never come back from the well . . . can\'t git away . . . draws ye . . . ye know summ\'at\'s comin\', but \'tain\'t no use . . . I seen it time an\' agin senct Zenas was took . . . whar\'s Nabby, Ammi? . . . my head\'s no good . . . dun\'t know how long senct I fed her . . . it\'ll git her ef we ain\'t keerful . . . jest a colour . . . her face is gettin\' to hev that colour sometimes towards night . . . an\' it burns an\' sucks . . . it come from some place whar things ain\'t as they is here . . . one o\' them professors said so . . . he was right . . . look out, Ammi, it\'ll do suthin\' more . . . sucks the life out. . . ." The Colour Out of Space""" - -def C(text, key): - out = bytearray() - for i in range(len(text)): - out.append( text[i] ^ key[i] ) - - return bytes(out) - -IV = b'ahiru' -key = b'color' - -encode = lambda t : cbc.cipherBlockChainingE(key, IV, C, t) -decode = lambda t : cbc.cipherBlockChainingD(key, IV, C, t) - -crypto.mkIndex(encode, decode, alice, bob, crypto.hexFormat) diff --git a/packages/crypto/220/@answer.txt b/packages/crypto/220/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index de2bb17..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/220/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -open meadows diff --git a/packages/crypto/220/@author.txt b/packages/crypto/220/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5d7a8e0..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/220/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Paul Ferrell diff --git a/packages/crypto/220/@index.mdwn b/packages/crypto/220/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 23afa0b..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/220/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -
Alice
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Bob
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diff --git a/packages/crypto/220cbc.py b/packages/crypto/220cbc.py deleted file mode 100644 index acf0e0b..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/220cbc.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,15 +0,0 @@ - -import cbc, crypto -from transform import transform - -alice = b"""You know, I just realized it's kind of smug for us to be talking about how easy or difficult these puzzles are we we're making them rather than solving them. We've tried really hard to make them so that you don't have to follow some specific thread of logic to get to the correct answer; you just have to puzzle out the mechanism involved.""" -bob = b"""The next crypto function is something simple, but new. Here, have some more Lovecraft again: Ammi shewed them the back door and the path up through the fields to the ten-acre pasture. They walked and stumbled as in a dream, and did not dare look back till they were far away on the high ground. They were glad of the path, for they could not have gone the front way, by that well. It was bad enough passing the glowing barn and sheds, and those shining orchard trees with their gnarled, fiendish contours; but thank heaven the branches did their worst twisting high up. The moon went under some very black clouds as they crossed the rustic bridge over Chapman's Brook, and it was blind groping from there to the open meadows. open meadows """ - -IV = b'ahiru' -keyE = [2, 4, 0, 1, 3] -keyD = [2, 3, 0, 4, 1] - -encode = lambda t : cbc.cipherBlockChainingE(keyE, IV, transform, t) -decode = lambda t : cbc.cipherBlockChainingD(keyD, IV, transform, t) - -crypto.mkIndex(encode, decode, alice, bob, crypto.hexFormat) diff --git a/packages/crypto/230/@answer.txt b/packages/crypto/230/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index b765c05..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/230/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -quavering tendrils diff --git a/packages/crypto/230/@author.txt b/packages/crypto/230/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5d7a8e0..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/230/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Paul Ferrell diff --git a/packages/crypto/230/@index.mdwn b/packages/crypto/230/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 3ecd630..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/230/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -
Alice
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Bob
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diff --git a/packages/crypto/230cbc.py b/packages/crypto/230cbc.py deleted file mode 100644 index 78afd30..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/230cbc.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,38 +0,0 @@ - -import cbc, crypto -import diffie - -alice = """Lets do a diffie hellman key exchange, Bob. The next puzzle will be encrypted using CBC and sha512(.) ^ text as the cipher function, -and an IV of 0xaa 64 times. The prime is: %d, mod: %d, and I chose %d. Also, have some more Lovecraft: Too awed even to hint theories, the seven shaking men trudged back toward Arkham by the north road. Ammi was worse than his fellows, and begged them to see him inside his own kitchen, instead of keeping straight on to town. He did not wish to cross the nighted, wind-whipped woods alone to his home on the main road. For he had had an added shock that the others were spared, and was crushed forever with a brooding fear he dared not even mention for many years to come. As the rest of the watchers on that tempestuous hill had stolidly set their faces toward the road, Ammi had looked back an instant at the shadowed valley of desolation so lately sheltering his ill-starred friend. And from that stricken, far-away spot he had seen something feebly rise, only to sink down again upon the place from which the great shapeless horror had shot into the sky. It was just a colour—but not any colour of our earth or heavens. And because Ammi recognised that colour, and knew that this last faint remnant must still lurk down there in the well, he has never been quite right since. """ % \ -(diffie.prime, diffie.mod, diffie.a) -bob = """Umm, ok. You'll need this: %d. The key this time is 'quavering tendrils'. Some more text to decode: West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut. There are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight. On the gentler slopes there are farms, ancient and rocky, with squat, moss-coated cottages brooding eternally over old New England secrets in the lee of great ledges; but these are all vacant now, the wide chimneys crumbling and the shingled sides bulging perilously beneath low gambrel roofs. -The old folk have gone away, and foreigners do not like to live there. French-Canadians have tried it, Italians have tried it, and the Poles have come and departed. It is not because of anything that can be seen or heard or handled, but because of something that is imagined. The place is not good for the imagination, and does not bring restful dreams at night. It must be this which keeps the foreigners away, for old Ammi Pierce has never told them of anything he recalls from the strange days. Ammi, whose head has been a little queer for years, is the only one who still remains, or who ever talks of the strange days; and he dares to do this because his house is so near the open fields and the travelled roads around Arkham. -There was once a road over the hills and through the valleys, that ran straight where the blasted heath is now; but people ceased to use it and a new road was laid curving far toward the south. Traces of the old one can still be found amidst the weeds of a returning wilderness, and some of them will doubtless linger even when half the hollows are flooded for the new reservoir. Then the dark woods will be cut down and the blasted heath will slumber far below blue waters whose surface will mirror the sky and ripple in the sun. And the secrets of the strange days will be one with the deep’s secrets; one with the hidden lore of old ocean, and all the mystery of primal earth. -When I went into the hills and vales to survey for the new reservoir they told me the place was evil. They told me this in Arkham, and because that is a very old town full of witch legends I thought the evil must be something which grandams had whispered to children through centuries. The name “blasted heath” seemed to me very odd and theatrical, and I wondered how it had come into the folklore of a Puritan people. Then I saw that dark westward tangle of glens and slopes for myself, and ceased to wonder at anything besides its own elder mystery. It was morning when I saw it, but shadow lurked always there. The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them, and the floor was too soft with the dank moss and mattings of infinite years of decay. """ % \ -(diffie.B,) - -alice = crypto.strip(alice) -bob = crypto.strip(bob) - -def Ce(text, key): - out = bytearray() - for i in range(len(text)): - out.append( ( (text[i] + key[i]) % 256) ^ key[i] ) - - return bytes(out) - -def Cd(text, key): - out = bytearray() - for i in range(len(text)): - out.append( ( (text[i] ^ key[i]) - key[i]) % 256 ) - - return bytes(out) - -IV = b'ahiru' -key = b'space' - -encode = lambda t : cbc.cipherBlockChainingE(key, IV, Ce, t) -decode = lambda t : cbc.cipherBlockChainingD(key, IV, Cd, t) - -if __name__ == '__main__': - crypto.mkIndex(encode, decode, alice, bob, crypto.hexFormat) diff --git a/packages/crypto/240/@answer.txt b/packages/crypto/240/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index acc5b82..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/240/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -in the same vein diff --git a/packages/crypto/240/@author.txt b/packages/crypto/240/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5d7a8e0..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/240/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Paul Ferrell diff --git a/packages/crypto/240/@index.mdwn b/packages/crypto/240/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 1abd607..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/240/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -
Alice
e3 75 ff 47 8e 96 a3 b 46 47 76 af a9 4 d6 13 99 65 79 d7 bd 3f 3a 5e f1
c4 29 f5 c 45 74 77 b6 84 4c dd 9 38 9c f6 bf a6 d6 ef 11 b5 22 b7 f7 b7
2 65 6b 84 7 3e 76 68 e3 d6 9b 3e 8a 95 92 a1 e6 a6 f9 a0 e4 ae aa a8 ab
bd ef fe b3 b2 b5 f0 b6 ae ee f0 e5 c3 ed ab e1 ef ee de b6 a0 f3 ec a2 a2
aa a9 a0 ae aa f8 fe a8 b7 aa aa ab bb f8 bb e2 b1 b0 ed b2 e7 ee f9 b7 ac
a0 bc a4 -
Bob
bb 29 86 18 a7 e0 a6 33 ec bc df 73 3e b5 dc 76 66 6d 74 68 30 81 9b 42 a1
41 ac 3b ee ab 3d ae d4 ae d0 33 d9 11 1 e4 57 3f 61 14 9b e2 85 f5 89 e0
cf 94 d8 56 71 a ec 99 7a 5d 4 7e 68 93
diff --git a/packages/crypto/240diffie.py b/packages/crypto/240diffie.py deleted file mode 100644 index 0120525..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/240diffie.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,25 +0,0 @@ -import crypto -import cbc -import diffie -import hashlib - -IV = [0xaa]*64 -aliceKey = hashlib.sha512(bytes('alice.%d' % diffie.key, 'utf-8')).digest() -bobKey = hashlib.sha512(bytes('bob.%d' % diffie.key, 'utf-8')).digest() - -alice = b"""Only one more puzzle to go. They'll never get it though, since we use a one time pad. I need to add more text here to pad this.""" -bob = b"""I wouldn't be so sure of that. The key is: in the same vein """ - -def C(text, key): - out = bytearray() - for i in range( len( text ) ): - out.append(key[i] ^ text[i]) - - return bytes(out) - -c = cbc.cipherBlockChainingE(aliceKey, IV, C, alice) -print('
Alice
', crypto.hexFormat(c)) -assert cbc.cipherBlockChainingD(aliceKey, IV, C, c) == alice -c = cbc.cipherBlockChainingE(bobKey, IV, C, bob) -assert cbc.cipherBlockChainingD(bobKey, IV, C, c) == bob -print('
Bob
', crypto.hexFormat(c), '
') diff --git a/packages/crypto/400/@answer.txt b/packages/crypto/400/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 0abb17e..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/400/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ ---------========Thanks for Pl@y|ng========-------- diff --git a/packages/crypto/400/@author.txt b/packages/crypto/400/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5d7a8e0..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/400/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Paul Ferrell diff --git a/packages/crypto/400/@index.mdwn b/packages/crypto/400/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index f57c9a7..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/400/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -
Alice
f4 c9 40 41 ac 4b 9c 3f 32 58 2f 70 1c 49 fb bf a8 56 72 72 2 88 2c 87 cc
d 13 6c 25 d5 da 30 64 dd dd b8 ba 58 c1 a3 17 26 6d ff 64 62 cb 69 b3 e2
ae 2d dd 11 2f a1 5d 79 b6 63 cb 51 5b de 9c 57 20 45 72 7b f2 35 15 40 60
8c 45 c9 a6 38 e0 79 7 a4 cc 18 e9 7e eb 4b 38 e2 ed 6b 17 a1 ee fd 69 2a
24 b5 21 be 96 92 d4 f6 5b 40 59 1d b f6 8a cb dd 6 43 16 6 f ab c8 4
fc b2 f3 c3 64 11 40 db 9e d6 7 f9 40 17 bd 2 1e cc b2 14 81 6a c1 6b b9
2c 6c ab 5f 7f -
Bob
e9 d5 6 46 ac 52 92 38 32 5d 32 37 59 10 e3 af a8 46 72 6b 18 89 68 c2 c0
15 13 2f 3d 94 d0 2b 31 9e db ae ea 5f c1 ef 11 36 37 e4 66 7e 9e 21 99 e3
a7 6a ce 13 2f a1 50 74 ae 73 84 5b 41 96 da 1e a 10 76 60 a2 39 5b 19 6e
d9 1 da ba 75 ac 71 1b b5 89 1e a1 7e f3 b 36 ab a3 6b 43 e9 ab fd 23 75
68 f6 68 b3 c8 dc 81 ae b 18 44 4f 50 eb aa cb d5 6 4f 16 a 49 b0 d2 41
df bb 93 cd 7d d 42 c6 cc 8d 1a b0 f 43 f6 46 52 8d bf 5d c5 21 8a 22 fa
79 20 ff 6 71
diff --git a/packages/crypto/400onetimepad.py b/packages/crypto/400onetimepad.py deleted file mode 100644 index a9a589b..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/400onetimepad.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,23 +0,0 @@ -import crypto -import random - -def mkPad(length): - pad = bytearray() - for i in range(length): - pad.append( random.randint(0,255) ) - return bytes(pad) - -alice = b'That was it, you solved the last crypto puzzle! Congratulations. I hope you realize that, in the grand scheme of things, these were of trivial difficulty.' -bob = b"It's not like we could expect you to solve anything actually difficult in a day, after all. --------========Thanks for Pl@y|ng========-------- " - -assert len(alice) == len(bob) -key = mkPad(len(alice)) - -def encode(text): - out = bytearray() - for i in range(len(text)): - out.append(key[i] ^ text[i]) - return bytes(out) - -crypto.mkIndex(encode, encode, alice, bob, crypto.hexFormat) - diff --git a/packages/crypto/cbc.py b/packages/crypto/cbc.py deleted file mode 100644 index d63f3d1..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/cbc.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,52 +0,0 @@ - -def cipherBlockChainingE(key, IV, C, text): - """Cypher block chaining encryption. Works in blocks the size of IV. -@param key: the key for the Cipher. -@param IV: initialization vector (bytes object). -@param C: the cypher function C(text, key). -@param text: A bytes object of the text. The length of the text - must be a multiple of the length of the IV. -""" - mod = len(text) % len(IV) - assert mod == 0, 'The text length needs to be a multiple of the key '\ - 'length. %d of %d' % (mod, len(IV)) - - feedback = IV - block = len(IV) - out = bytearray() - while text: - p, text = text[:block], text[block:] - - c = bytearray(block) - for i in range(block): - c[i] = p[i] ^ feedback[i] - - c2 = C(c, key) - out.extend(c2) - feedback = c2 - - return bytes(out) - -def cipherBlockChainingD(key, IV, C, text): - """Cipher block chaining decryption. Arguments are the same as for the -encrypting function.""" - mod = len(text) % len(IV) - assert mod == 0, 'The text length needs to be a multiple of the IV '\ - 'length. %d of %d' % (mod, len(IV)) - - feedback = IV - block = len(IV) - out = bytearray() - while text: - c, text = text[:block], text[block:] - - p = C(c, key) - p = bytearray(p) - for i in range(block): - p[i] = p[i] ^ feedback[i] - - out.extend(p) - feedback = c - - return bytes(out) - diff --git a/packages/crypto/crypto.mk b/packages/crypto/crypto.mk deleted file mode 100644 index 72c16ba..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/crypto.mk +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -$(eval $(call STANDARD_PUZZLE, crypto)) diff --git a/packages/crypto/crypto.py b/packages/crypto/crypto.py deleted file mode 100644 index 9f0f6f4..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/crypto.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,46 +0,0 @@ -def mkIndex(encode, decode, alice, bob, - format=lambda s: str(s, 'utf-8')): - """Write out the index.html contents. -@param encode: function to encrypt the plaintext -@param decode: function to decrypt the plaintext -@param alice: plaintext of alice line -@param bob: plaintext of bob line -@param format: formatter for the cypher text, run out output of encode before - printing. Does string conversion by default.""" - c = encode(alice) - print('
Alice
', format(c)) - assert decode(c) == alice - c = encode(bob) - print('
Bob
', format(c), '
') - assert decode(c) == bob - -def hexFormat(text): - return groups(text, 5, '{0:x} ') - -def groups(text, perLine=5, format='{0:c}'): - i = 0 - out = [] - while i < len(text): - out.append(format.format(text[i])) - - if i % (perLine*5) == (perLine * 5 - 1): - out.append('
') - elif i % 5 == 4: - out.append(' ') - - i = i + 1 - - return ''.join(out) - -def strip(text): - """Strip any unicode from the given text, and return it as a bytes - object.""" - - b = bytearray() - for t in text: - if ord(t) > 255: - t = ' ' - - b.append(ord(t)) - - return bytes(b) diff --git a/packages/crypto/diffie.py b/packages/crypto/diffie.py deleted file mode 100644 index 5f0bbba..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/diffie.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,8 +0,0 @@ -prime = 51237129793 -mod = 321454621 -a = 341 -A = prime ** a % mod -b = 573 -B = prime ** b % mod -key = A**b % mod -assert B**a % mod == key, 'Bad diffie math.' diff --git a/packages/crypto/transform.py b/packages/crypto/transform.py deleted file mode 100644 index d9ffe1b..0000000 --- a/packages/crypto/transform.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ -def transform(text, map): - size = len(map) - div = len(text) % size - assert div == 0, 'Text must be a multiple of the key size in length. '\ - 'At %d out of %d' % (div, size) - - out = bytearray() - i = 0 - while i < len(text): - for j in range(size): - out.append( text[i + map[j]] ) - i = i+size - return bytes(out) diff --git a/packages/hackme/100/@answer.txt b/packages/hackme/100/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e69de29..0000000 diff --git a/packages/hackme/100/@author.txt b/packages/hackme/100/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/hackme/100/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/hackme/100/@index.mdwn b/packages/hackme/100/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index b99f752..0000000 --- a/packages/hackme/100/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -There is no key. It is impossible to score 100 points in this category. diff --git a/packages/hackme/200/@answer.txt b/packages/hackme/200/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index dc065e0..0000000 --- a/packages/hackme/200/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -james diff --git a/packages/hackme/200/@author.txt b/packages/hackme/200/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/hackme/200/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/hackme/200/@index.mdwn b/packages/hackme/200/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index b4b4218..0000000 --- a/packages/hackme/200/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -The key is "james". Should you claim your points immediately, though? -Go ahead, watch what happens when you do. - diff --git a/packages/hackme/274/@answer.txt b/packages/hackme/274/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e69de29..0000000 diff --git a/packages/hackme/274/@author.txt b/packages/hackme/274/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/hackme/274/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/hackme/274/@index.mdwn b/packages/hackme/274/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 72dd672..0000000 --- a/packages/hackme/274/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -So was it a good idea to claim your points as soon as possible? -Watch the scoreboard. diff --git a/packages/hackme/300/@answer.txt b/packages/hackme/300/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e69de29..0000000 diff --git a/packages/hackme/300/@author.txt b/packages/hackme/300/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/hackme/300/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/hackme/300/@index.mdwn b/packages/hackme/300/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index bcb3c57..0000000 --- a/packages/hackme/300/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -You're going to have to work harder now. diff --git a/packages/hackme/614/@answer.txt b/packages/hackme/614/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index dc065e0..0000000 --- a/packages/hackme/614/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -james diff --git a/packages/hackme/614/@author.txt b/packages/hackme/614/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/hackme/614/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/hackme/614/@index.mdwn b/packages/hackme/614/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index dc065e0..0000000 --- a/packages/hackme/614/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -james diff --git a/packages/hackme/806/@answer.txt b/packages/hackme/806/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index dd3d17d..0000000 --- a/packages/hackme/806/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -That's all, folks. diff --git a/packages/hackme/806/@author.txt b/packages/hackme/806/@author.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 902019d..0000000 --- a/packages/hackme/806/@author.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Neale Pickett diff --git a/packages/hackme/806/@index.mdwn b/packages/hackme/806/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index dd3d17d..0000000 --- a/packages/hackme/806/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -That's all, folks. diff --git a/packages/hackme/hackme.mk b/packages/hackme/hackme.mk deleted file mode 100644 index 4fe858c..0000000 --- a/packages/hackme/hackme.mk +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -$(eval $(call STANDARD_PUZZLE, hackme)) diff --git a/packages/javascript/1/@answer.txt b/packages/javascript/1/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 8250681..0000000 --- a/packages/javascript/1/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -redecorates hugged diff --git a/packages/javascript/1/@index.mdwn b/packages/javascript/1/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 7ee36bf..0000000 --- a/packages/javascript/1/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,7 +0,0 @@ - -The answer for this page is: diff --git a/packages/javascript/1/@summary.txt b/packages/javascript/1/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 0d1a245..0000000 --- a/packages/javascript/1/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Enable javascript in browser diff --git a/packages/javascript/2/@answer.txt b/packages/javascript/2/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e59c784..0000000 --- a/packages/javascript/2/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -greedy carpels diff --git a/packages/javascript/2/@index.mdwn b/packages/javascript/2/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index d3cf480..0000000 --- a/packages/javascript/2/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,8 +0,0 @@ - -The answer for this page is: diff --git a/packages/javascript/2/@summary.txt b/packages/javascript/2/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index f60e5c9..0000000 --- a/packages/javascript/2/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Examine source to page diff --git a/packages/javascript/3/@answer.txt b/packages/javascript/3/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index d6d2900..0000000 --- a/packages/javascript/3/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -betrayer munificence diff --git a/packages/javascript/3/@index.mdwn b/packages/javascript/3/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index f002d6d..0000000 --- a/packages/javascript/3/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,8 +0,0 @@ - -The answer for this page is: diff --git a/packages/javascript/3/@summary.txt b/packages/javascript/3/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 043302f..0000000 --- a/packages/javascript/3/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -URL-escaped key with JS redirect: remove redirect or decode externally \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/javascript/5/@answer.txt b/packages/javascript/5/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 1787364..0000000 --- a/packages/javascript/5/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -tallying noisemakers diff --git a/packages/javascript/5/@index.mdwn b/packages/javascript/5/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 7d10236..0000000 --- a/packages/javascript/5/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ - -The answer for this page is: diff --git a/packages/javascript/5/@summary.txt b/packages/javascript/5/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5374731..0000000 --- a/packages/javascript/5/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -First use of eval diff --git a/packages/javascript/javascript.mk b/packages/javascript/javascript.mk deleted file mode 100644 index 9e17ed0..0000000 --- a/packages/javascript/javascript.mk +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -$(eval $(call STANDARD_PUZZLE, javascript)) diff --git a/packages/net-re/.gitignore b/packages/net-re/.gitignore deleted file mode 100644 index b25c15b..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/.gitignore +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -*~ diff --git a/packages/net-re/1/@answer.txt b/packages/net-re/1/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 9cc2bc3..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/1/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -163 diff --git a/packages/net-re/1/@index.mdwn b/packages/net-re/1/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index cc40c76..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/1/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,95 +0,0 @@ -Decimal -======= - -Decimal (Greek “deca-”, meaning “ten”), or base ten, is the counting -system most people use regularly, consisting of ten digits: - - 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 - -To count past nine, one must use the “tens place”, starting by placing a -1 in the “tens place”: - - 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, … - -The presence of a 1 in the “tens place” means “add ten one time”. 2 in -the “tens place” would mean “add ten two times", and so on. The decimal -number: - - 372 - -Reads “three times one hundred, plus seven times ten, plus two”. - -A “hundreds place” and “thousands place” can exist as well, and so on -for any nth digit representing the place for ten times itself n times, -or 10ⁿ. - - -Octal -===== - -Octal (Greek “okta-” meaning “eight”), or base eight, is a method of -counting with only eight digits. In the interest of making it obvious -when a number is octal, all octal numbers on this page will be preceded -by the number “0”. The digits are thus: - - 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07 - -Octal features an “eights place”, a “sixty-fours place”, a “five hundred -twelves place”, and so on. Counting from zero to ten in octal would -therefore go like so: - - 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 010, 011, 012 - -Where “010” means “one times eight” (eight), “011” means “one times -eight plus one” (nine), and “012” means “one times eight plus two” -(ten). - -The octal number: - - 0372 - -Reads “three times sixty-four, plus seven times eight, plus two”, or two -hundred thirty four. - -In general, the nth digit of an octal number represents the place for -eight times itself n times, or 8ⁿ. - - -Hexadecimal -=========== - -Hexadecimal (Greek “hexa-”, meaning “six”; plus “deca-”, meaning ten), -or base sixteen, is a method of counting with sixteen digits (preceded -by “0x” on this page): - - 0x0, 0x1, 0x2, 0x3, 0x4, 0x5, 0x6, 0x7, - 0x8, 0x9, 0xA, 0xB, 0xC, 0xD, 0xE, 0xF - -Hexadecimal (or “hex”) features a “sixteens place”, a “two hundred fifty -sixes place”, and so on. Counting from zero to twenty in hex therefore -would go like so: - - 0x0, 0x1, 0x2, 0x3, 0x4, 0x5, 0x6, 0x7, - 0x8, 0x9, 0xA, 0xB, 0xC, 0xD, 0xE, 0xF, - 0x10, 0x11, 0x12, 0x13, 0x14 - -Where “0xA” means “ten”, “0xB” means “eleven”, “0xF” means “fifteen”, “0x10” -means “one times sixteen”, “0x11” means “one times sixteen plus one”, et -cetera. - -The hexadecimal number: - - 0x372 - -Reads “three times two hundred fifty six, plus seven times sixteen, plus -two”, or eight hundred eighty-two. - - - -Question -======== - -The key for this page is the decimal representation of the following -sum: - - 12 + 072 + 0x5D diff --git a/packages/net-re/1/@summary.txt b/packages/net-re/1/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 78455c4..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/1/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -base math diff --git a/packages/net-re/10/@answer.txt b/packages/net-re/10/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index a564e04..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/10/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -69.35 diff --git a/packages/net-re/10/@index.mdwn b/packages/net-re/10/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 8c91b7e..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/10/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -What was the close price for Exxon-Mobil? diff --git a/packages/net-re/10/@summary.txt b/packages/net-re/10/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 6589bf3..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/10/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Examine pcap diff --git a/packages/net-re/10/session.pcap b/packages/net-re/10/session.pcap deleted file mode 100644 index ca71898..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/10/session.pcap and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/100/@answer.txt b/packages/net-re/100/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index cf47e71..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/100/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -chumbucket diff --git a/packages/net-re/100/@index.mdwn b/packages/net-re/100/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 3598a27..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/100/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,61 +0,0 @@ - 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O _ o ␡ - -Characters 0x00 through 0x1F and character 0x7F are the so-called -"control characters" and are typically not displayed. - -So, the following sequence of hex values: - - 68 65 6C 6C 6F 20 77 6F 72 6C 64 2E - -when decoded as ASCII yields the string: - - hello world - - -Base 64 -======= - -Base 64 is a map of 6-bit values--0x00 through 0x3F--to ASCII -characters. Here is the Base 64 alphabet: - - 0 1 2 3 - --------- - 0: A Q g w - 1: B R h x - 2: C S i y - 3: D T j z - 4: E U k 0 - 5: F V l 1 - 6: G W m 2 - 7: H X n 3 - 8: I Y o 4 - 9: J Z p 5 - A: K a q 6 - B: L b r 7 - C: M c s 8 - D: N d t 9 - E: O e u + - F: P f v / - -The following sequence of hex values: - - 00 00 12 2F 3C 07 - -when encoded as Base 64 yields the ASCII string: - - AASv8H - - -6-bit values in an 8-bit world -============================== - -Modern computers, almost universally, use an 8-bit byte. Base64 is used -to map an 8-bit byte stream to a set of 64 universally printable -characters. - -In order to do this, the 8-bit *byte* stream must be converted into a -*bit* stream. This bit stream must then be converted into a stream of -6-bit bytes, as in the following figure: - - | 00 | 04 | AF | F0 | 74 | 14 | - | | | | | | | - |000000 00|0000 0100|10 101111|111100 00|0111 0100|00 010100| - | | - |000000|00 0000|0100 10|101111|111100|00 0111|0100 00|010100| - | | | | | | | | | - | 00 | 00 | 12 | 2F | 3C | 07 | 10 | 14 | - -The resulting 6-bit byte stream is then mapped into the ASCII alphabet -given in the previous section, resulting in a "Base64-encoded string": - - AASv8HQU - - -Question -======== - -The key for this page is the decode of this Base64-encoded string: - - Z3JlYXQgam9i diff --git a/packages/net-re/2/@summary.txt b/packages/net-re/2/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index fbcf958..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/2/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -ASCII, Base64 diff --git a/packages/net-re/20/@answer.txt b/packages/net-re/20/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e29af1d..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/20/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -squirrel diff --git a/packages/net-re/20/@index.mdwn b/packages/net-re/20/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 20e6ee0..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/20/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -What sort of creature is Domo's friend? 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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/net-re/250/@summary.txt b/packages/net-re/250/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index f462f52..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/250/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Pull email out of pcap diff --git a/packages/net-re/250/example.com-1.pcap b/packages/net-re/250/example.com-1.pcap deleted file mode 100644 index e723d98..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/250/example.com-1.pcap and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/250/hint b/packages/net-re/250/hint deleted file mode 100644 index fde89a0..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/250/hint +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -strings *pcap | grep alice -or use wireshark and pore through TCP diff --git a/packages/net-re/25000/@answer.txt b/packages/net-re/25000/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 84bd5ba..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/25000/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -galloping gallimimus diff --git a/packages/net-re/25000/@summary.txt b/packages/net-re/25000/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index a3a3071..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/25000/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -ICMP tunnel, with xor, multiplexed transfers diff --git a/packages/net-re/25000/b143bbda4bbce4e81ac720a6bbc0d7c6 b/packages/net-re/25000/b143bbda4bbce4e81ac720a6bbc0d7c6 deleted file mode 100644 index cc3e8f8..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/25000/b143bbda4bbce4e81ac720a6bbc0d7c6 and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/25000/hint b/packages/net-re/25000/hint deleted file mode 100644 index ba228fc..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/25000/hint +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -abandon hope diff --git a/packages/net-re/3/@answer.txt b/packages/net-re/3/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 40de2b7..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/3/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,8 +0,0 @@ -2468ABCDF -2468abcdf -2 4 6 8 A B C D F -2 4 6 8 a b c d f -2,4,6,8,A,B,C,D,F -2,4,6,8,a,b,c,d,f -2, 4, 6, 8, A, B, C, D, F -2, 4, 6, 8, a, b, c, d, f diff --git a/packages/net-re/3/@index.mdwn b/packages/net-re/3/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index d12e396..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/3/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,136 +0,0 @@ -Identifying Application Protocols -================================= - -The three easiest protocols to identify are FTP, SMTP, and HTTP. These -also happen to be some of the most common protocols in use. - -In these examples, lines either begin with `C:` (client) or `S:` -(server). - - -FTP (control channel only) --------------------------- - - S: 220 ScumFTPD - C: USER anonymous - S: 331 Anonymous login ok, use email address as password - C: PASS joe@example.org - S: 230-Welcome to the FTP server. - S: 230 Anonymous access granted, restrictions apply. - C: PASV - S: 227 Entering Passive Mode (152,46,7,80,196,9). - C: LIST - S: 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list - S: 226 Transfer complete - C: QUIT - S: 221 Goodbye - - -SMTP ----- - - S: 220 mail.example.com ESMTP MushMail 1.3 - C: EHLO bub - S: 250-Hi there - S: 250-VRFY - S: 250 8BITMIME - C: MAIL FROM: bob@example.com - S: 250 Recipient address accepted - C: RCPT TO: alice@example.com - S: 250 Sender accepted - C: DATA - S: 354 End data with \n.\n - C: From: Santa Claus - C: To: Alice - C: Subject: ho ho ho - C: - C: You've been a good girl this year, Alice. - C: . - S: 250 Message accepted for delivery - C: QUIT - S: 221 Goodbye - - -Note here that the `MAIL FROM` is different from the `From:` header -field. `MAIL FROM` and `RCPT TO` are called the “envelope” and are what -the mail server looks at. The `From:` header field is merely advisory, -and can be trivially spoofed! - - -HTTP ----- - - C: GET /path/to/resource.html HTTP/1.1 - C: Host: www.example.com - C: User-Agent: Mozilla/2.0 (Galeon 1.0; Unicos; 2.3) - C: Connection: Close - C: - S: HTTP/1.1 200 OK - S: Server: CERN httpd 1.2 - S: Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 14:34:12 GMT - S: Last-Modified: Wed, 20 May 2009 10:33:42 GMT - S: Content-length: 20 - S: - S: hihi. - -The first line of an HTTP connection consists of: - - METHOD PATH VERSION - -`PATH` is the path to the resource being requested. It usually begins -with `/`, but if the client is trying to use the server as an HTTP -proxy, it will be a full URL. - -`VERSION` is the version of HTTP in use. It always begins with `HTTP/` -and ends with major and minor version numbers, separated by a period. -Many protocols are "HTTP-like", and provide a version beginning with -something other than `HTTP/'. Although they may look like HTTP, they -are not truly HTTP connections. - -`METHOD` is typically either `GET`, `HEAD`, or `POST`, but may also be -`OPTIONS`, `PUT`, `DELETE`, `TRACE`, `CONNECT`, or any number of -extensions. - -The `CONNECT` method is used to proxy traffic through the HTTP server. -Typically this is done by web browsers set up to use HTTP proxies for -HTTPS (HTTP over SSL), but is worth noting since it can also be used by -malware or to skirt firewall policies. For instance: - - CONNECT us.undernet.org:6667 HTTP/1.0 - -Would open an IRC connection to the Undernet IRC network. If your -policies disallow connecting to IRC, this demonstrates a possibly -successful attempt to skirt firewall rules. - - -Question -======== - -Sometimes as an analyst, you only get the first few dozen bytes of a -conversation, and you may not even get an indication of whether the -client or server spoke first. - -You have been given the first line sent in 16 different connections and -asked to determine which warrant further investigation. You need to -rule out things that are clearly not the first line of HTTP, SMTP, or -FTP. - -The answer for this page is the list of protocols *not described on this -page*, ordered from lowest (1) to highest (F). The answer should be of -the form "1,2,3,7,8,A,B,C". - - 1: GET / HTTP/1.1 - 2: +OK example.com server ready - 3: 220 mailrelay.example.com ESMTP Postfix 2.3.3/Bantu - 4: QUERY: //SYSTEMS/5B669A24 - 5: POST /depts/research/beekeeping/survey.php?token=83927400 HTTP/1.1 - 6: NICK rutabaga - 7: HEAD /content/images/ap-5823.jpg HTTP/1.0 - 8: -l jsmith - 9: CONNECT example.com:996 HTTP/1.1 - A: USER robot robot robot :robot - B: EHLO example.com - C: Subject: all-employee notice - D: * OK [CAPABILITY STARTTLS] example.com server Innova ready - E: TRACE / HTTP/1.1 - F: GET / ICAP/1.1 diff --git a/packages/net-re/3/@summary.txt b/packages/net-re/3/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 8bd2dcb..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/3/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Application protocols 1 diff --git a/packages/net-re/30/@answer.txt b/packages/net-re/30/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 747323e..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/30/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -RSTNFGEAID diff --git a/packages/net-re/30/@index.mdwn b/packages/net-re/30/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 9c6fbc3..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/30/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -What middle row is optimium for typing in "Moby Dick"? - -All caps, no spaces. diff --git a/packages/net-re/30/@summary.txt b/packages/net-re/30/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 4ce4a7a..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/30/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Reconstruct image from FTP in pcap diff --git a/packages/net-re/30/session.pcap b/packages/net-re/30/session.pcap deleted file mode 100644 index 4d85ff6..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/30/session.pcap and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/300/@answer.txt b/packages/net-re/300/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 68fa8d8..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/300/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -pumpkins diff --git a/packages/net-re/300/@index.mdwn b/packages/net-re/300/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 126ae0d..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/300/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -What sort of plants does this farm grow? - diff --git a/packages/net-re/300/@summary.txt b/packages/net-re/300/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 451701c..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/300/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -More pulling things out of pcap diff --git a/packages/net-re/300/session.pcap b/packages/net-re/300/session.pcap deleted file mode 100644 index b3eda4e..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/300/session.pcap and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/3000/12a18338d10d3a764f8d95e40b244cd2 b/packages/net-re/3000/12a18338d10d3a764f8d95e40b244cd2 deleted file mode 100644 index cbbbd09..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/3000/12a18338d10d3a764f8d95e40b244cd2 and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/3000/@answer.txt b/packages/net-re/3000/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 0d6431b..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/3000/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -galactic octopus diff --git a/packages/net-re/3000/@summary.txt b/packages/net-re/3000/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 1a3ad16..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/3000/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -ICMP tunnel diff --git a/packages/net-re/4/@answer.txt b/packages/net-re/4/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 15243ae..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/4/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -PINHEAD CATASTROPHE diff --git a/packages/net-re/4/@index.mdwn b/packages/net-re/4/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 4948b1e..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/4/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,123 +0,0 @@ -Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) -============================================ - -MIME is a standard to describe the type of content. It is used -extensively by HTTP and email clients to provide details about what sort -of thing is being transferred (for example: a JPEG image, a Zip file, an -HTML page). - -MIME is also used heavily by email clients to encapsulate multiple -objects, through the use of `multipart MIME`, more commonly referred to -as “attachments”. - -When examining an SMTP transaction, an analyst is frequently called upon -to “decode” the MIME part in order to obtain the file that was -transferred. - -The following SMTP transaction features an attachment: - - S: 220 mail.example.com ESMTP MushMail 1.3 - C: EHLO bub - S: 250-Hi there - S: 250-VRFY - S: 250 8BITMIME - C: MAIL FROM: alice@example.com - S: 250 Recipient address accepted - C: RCPT TO: bob@example.com - S: 250 Sender accepted - C: DATA - S: 354 End data with \n.\n - C: From: Alice - C: To: Bob - C: Subject: TPS report - C: MIME-Version: 1.0 - C: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=arf - C: - C: This is a MIME message. Apparently your software is ancient - C: and is unable to render it properly. Too bad for you. - C: - C: --arf - C: Content-type: text/plain - C: Content-disposition: inline - C: - C: I've attached the TPS report you asked for. - C: --arf - C: Content-type: image/png - C: Content-transfer-encoding: base64 - C: Content-disposition: attachment; filename=key.png - C: - C: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAHEAAAALCAIAAADHpfUgAAAACXBIWXMAAAsT - C: AAALEwEAmpwYAAAAB3RJTUUH2gEOFzovNd+dvwAAAB10RVh0Q29tbWVudABD - C: cmVhdGVkIHdpdGggVGhlIEdJTVDvZCVuAAAAz0lEQVRIx+1Wyw7EIAiUDf// - C: y+6hCTEO4NhqN5s4h8YaGB6CKLXWcrAUn5OC5dBSiojYv5WtiFxrW9ja3WlJ - C: kSSygjCxVibiiWwhD2pFUUdaSTY6Zs09SzY7MHdIbsX1OCLJXUIeV2tYK4zP - C: GDvV+3gaDNxj5JGXA2/r/YGhfIStx+i927O/Quvt7D3D1ErOozy762ikeO3b - C: 93aiGR5XZqpnExkMcBi77iuuaKrs4Olknpzi86tDV2WQGevDbojG8abeX6KF - C: sct58583/x/gCxug/wCTSHakAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC - C: --arf-- - C: . - S: 250 Message accepted for delivery - C: QUIT - S: 221 Goodbye - -The attachment part of this can be easily spotted: it’s the large -Base64-encoded chunk in the bottom half. You can spot the type -(image/png) and the filename (domo.png) in the MIME headers immediately -preceding the block. - -The Base64 text can be copied and pasted into a text editor for -decoding. Save the text to any file you want: this tutorial will use -the filename `key.png.txt`. - - -Easily Decoding Base64 -====================== - -Most Unix systems come pre-installed with several programs that can -decode Base64: uudecode, openssl, perl, and python are all capable of -the task. We will demonstrate Python, since we will be using that -language later in this tutorial, and since it is available on Windows -also. - -After starting Python, we are met with the Python prompt: - - >>> - -We now open the file and read in its contents: - - >>> contents = open('key.png.txt').read() - -The file’s contents are now in the `contents` variable. We can then -Base64 decode the contents: - - >>> import binascii - >>> decode = binascii.a2b_base64(contents) - -And save the decoded contents to a new file, called `key.png`: - - >>> open('key.png', 'wb').write(decode) - -If you are confused by the syntax, don’t worry too much about it. You -can use these four lines as a boilerplate for base64 decoding any file. - - -Some help from Unix -=================== - -Unix (or Cygwin on Windows) features a command called `file` which -encapsulates decades of knowledge about file formats. The `file` -command can be run on arbitrary data to get an initial idea about what -sort of file you have. In our example: - - $ file key.png - key.png: PNG image data, 113 x 11, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced - -This tool is invaluable when analyzing unknown data. - - -Question -======== - -Use the techniques in this page to decode the Base64 attachment used in -the example. When properly decoded, you will have an image that, when -viewed, reveals the key for this page. diff --git a/packages/net-re/4/@summary.txt b/packages/net-re/4/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 1b0bb22..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/4/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -MIME diff --git a/packages/net-re/400/@answer.txt b/packages/net-re/400/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 84fa0b7..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/400/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -lettuce diff --git a/packages/net-re/400/@index.mdwn b/packages/net-re/400/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 43eeca4..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/400/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -What is Domo in now? diff --git a/packages/net-re/400/@summary.txt b/packages/net-re/400/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 9e92365..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/400/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Still more pulling things out of pcap diff --git a/packages/net-re/400/session.pcap b/packages/net-re/400/session.pcap deleted file mode 100644 index 72e7884..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/400/session.pcap and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/4000/@answer.txt b/packages/net-re/4000/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index f9982e8..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/4000/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -gaucho moped fleet diff --git a/packages/net-re/4000/@summary.txt b/packages/net-re/4000/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 0becd68..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/4000/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -PNG transmitted in ICMP payloads diff --git a/packages/net-re/4000/e464f161483b4a2fd8b690a98932b703 b/packages/net-re/4000/e464f161483b4a2fd8b690a98932b703 deleted file mode 100644 index 5166f67..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/4000/e464f161483b4a2fd8b690a98932b703 and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/5/@answer.txt b/packages/net-re/5/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 2dfaad7..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/5/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -fishsticks diff --git a/packages/net-re/5/@index.mdwn b/packages/net-re/5/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 2162973..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/5/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,92 +0,0 @@ -PCAP files -========== - -When packets are captured off of a network, they are typically written -to PCAP (Packet CAPture) files. These files contain some information -about the device used to do the capture, and a list of packets that were -captured along with what precise time they were captured. - -PCAP files are invaluable in network reverse engineering. Without -packet capture, all you can usually do is speculate. It's like the -difference between looking at clues at the scene of the crime, and -having a videotape from cameras providing video at every angle. - -With full packet capture (capture of all inbound and outbound traffic to -a network), it is sometimes even possible to write *protocol decoders*, -which can be used to show exactly what information went back and forth, -at what times. This ability is of extremely high value in any sort of -forensic investigation. - - -Wireshark ---------- - -Wireshark is a graphical PCAP viewing tool for Unix, Windows, or MacOS. -It features built-in protocol decoders for many standard protocols, -powerful filters for examining captures, statistical tools, and much -more. It is capable of capturing packets on its own, and reading and -writing PCAP files. - -Let’s load up Wireshark. - -![Wireshark’s Startup](ws-start.png) - -We can now open [an example pcap file](example1.pcap) with “File -> -Open”. After loading, we will see Wireshark’s 3-panel display: - -![Loaded file](ws-opened.png) - -The top panel shows a list of frames (packets). The middle panel shows -information about the currently-selected frame, and the bottom panel -shows a hex dump of the frame. We can click on one of the white -triangles to expand information about an aspect of the frame, and by -highlighting any line in the second panel, the third panel will -highlight that part of the hex dump: - -![Examining a frame](ws-examine.png) - -We can also right-click on a frame in the top panel for a drop-down menu -of options. We will focus on the “follow TCP stream” option. - -![Follow a stream](ws-follow.png) - -This opens up a new window in which both sides of the TCP stream are -reassembled from the individual frames: - -![Followed stream](ws-stream.png) - -This text can be copied and pasted into a text editor or a binary -editor as a means to quickly extract payloads like attachments or -transferred files. - - -Wireshark’s weakness, and `tcpflow` ------------------------------------ - -Wireshark’s TCP reassembly routines have bugs. Sometimes, stream -reassembly is incomplete, even though all the frames are present. - -Under Unix (or Cygwin in Windows), a program called `tcpflow` can do -much more reliable--not to mention quick--reassembly of TCP sessions: - - $ ls - example1.pcap - $ tcpflow -r example1.pcap - $ ls - 106.086.094.175.06063-239.201.176.004.65167 - 239.201.176.004.65167-106.086.094.175.06063 - example1.pcap - $ - -`tcpflow` reassembles each side of a connection, which is usually all -you want anyway. This has reassembled into the “106.86.94.175 side” and -the “239.201.176.4 side”; each file contains what the left IP sent to -the right IP. - - -Question -======== - -Use Wireshark or `tcpflow` to extract the TCP stream from [this packet -capture](key.pcap). Then, using techniques from previous sections, -decode the payload. View it to find the key for this page. diff --git a/packages/net-re/5/@summary.txt b/packages/net-re/5/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 885d3ee..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/5/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -PCAP files and Wireshark diff --git a/packages/net-re/5/example1.pcap b/packages/net-re/5/example1.pcap deleted file mode 100644 index ca71898..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/5/example1.pcap and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/5/key.pcap b/packages/net-re/5/key.pcap deleted file mode 100644 index c3305df..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/5/key.pcap and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/5/ws-examine.png b/packages/net-re/5/ws-examine.png deleted file mode 100644 index d5a7c04..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/5/ws-examine.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/5/ws-follow.png b/packages/net-re/5/ws-follow.png deleted file mode 100644 index 2e0f309..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/5/ws-follow.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/5/ws-opened.png b/packages/net-re/5/ws-opened.png deleted file mode 100644 index 64c777f..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/5/ws-opened.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/5/ws-start.png b/packages/net-re/5/ws-start.png deleted file mode 100644 index 9674794..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/5/ws-start.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/5/ws-stream.png b/packages/net-re/5/ws-stream.png deleted file mode 100644 index a2fec96..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/5/ws-stream.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/5000/53127bca7fed4875920675c2c9e14597 b/packages/net-re/5000/53127bca7fed4875920675c2c9e14597 deleted file mode 100644 index 0afde20..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/5000/53127bca7fed4875920675c2c9e14597 and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/5000/@answer.txt b/packages/net-re/5000/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 971b5d9..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/5000/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -miniature commodore exercise diff --git a/packages/net-re/5000/@summary.txt b/packages/net-re/5000/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index ffce12c..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/5000/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Horrendously inefficient compression algorithm diff --git a/packages/net-re/6/@answer.txt b/packages/net-re/6/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 86e6494..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/6/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -whatever.example.net diff --git a/packages/net-re/6/@index.mdwn b/packages/net-re/6/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 24531b9..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/6/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,87 +0,0 @@ -More Application Protocols -========================== - -Several popular application-layer protocols are what's referred to as -“binary protocols”, meaning their communications are not easily readable -by humans. They are still readable, though, if you know how to read -them. - - -Secure Shell (SSH) ------------------- - -Although SSH is a binary protocol, the first message sent by both client -and server is typically an ASCII banner announcing the version: - - S: SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-5 - C: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.9p1 - -In SSH, the server speaks first. - - - -Transport Layer Security (TLS) ------------------------------- - -TLS (formerly known as Secure Sockets Layer or SSL) is a protocol for -encrypting communications over TCP. While the contents of an SSL -session are encrypted, we can at least identify it as such by looking at -the beginning few bytes: - -
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Hex
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C: 16 03 01 00 8a 01 00 01 00 00 86 03 -01…
-S: 16 03 01 00 4a 02 00 00 46 03 -01…
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ASCII
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C: ^V^C^A^@\e212^A^@^A^@^@\e206^C^A…
-S: ^V^C^A^@\e112^B^@^@\e106^C^A…
-
- -The primary indicator of SSL is that both sides of the conversation send -hex value 0x16 (`^V`) as their first byte. A secondary indicator is a -repeated version number (0x03 0x01). - -In TLS, the client speaks first. - - - -Domain Name Service (DNS) -------------------------- - -DNS, a very frequently-occuring protocol, can be identified by the -combination of its port (53) and its typical payload. Examples follow: - -
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Hex
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3a fb 01 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 65 78 61 6d 70 6c -65 03 63 6f 6d 00
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ASCII
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H\e373^A^@^@^A^@^@^@^@^@^@^Gexample^Ccom^A^@ -
- -The first highlighted part, with the *opcode* (1, an “A record request”, -which asks for an IP given a name), and the name to be resolved -(example.com). - -The name is encoded by preceding it by a byte count, and then than many -bytes. Breaking this name apart, we can see: - - \x07 “example” - \x03 “com” - \x00 - -The protocol is decoded by first reading in the length, then that number -of bytes. This continues until a length of 0 is encountered. This -method of encoding strings is very common in binary protocols. - - - -Question -======== - -The following is an extract of a DNS packet. What does this decode to? - - 087768617465766572076578616d706c65036e657400 - diff --git a/packages/net-re/6/@summary.txt b/packages/net-re/6/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e30643b..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/6/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Application protocols 2 diff --git a/packages/net-re/6000/@answer.txt b/packages/net-re/6000/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 4beb450..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/6000/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -hello crypto! diff --git a/packages/net-re/6000/@index.mdwn b/packages/net-re/6000/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index cc8f2f8..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/6000/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,33 +0,0 @@ -Time to make things difficult -============================= - -So far we've been using xor as a tool to combine a message with a key to obfuscate a message. There's another word for what we've been doing: Cryptography. - -The xor operation can be thought of as a trivial cryptographic cypher. It can be replaced with a wide variety of other operations, some of which we'll consider in the next few exercizes. - -First though, we should consider how we've been using this cypher. In cryptography terms, we've been using it in Electronic Codebook Mode (ECB). ECB mode takes the plaintext and key as inputs to an encryption method and produces a cooresponding cyphertext. Given the same plaintext and key, the same cypher text will always result. This property has been key to figuring out many of the previous puzzles, and we're about to throw it out. - -![Electronic Code Book](ECB.png) - -Cipher Block Chaining -===================== - -![Cipher Block Chaining](CBC.png) - -Cipher block chaining is the most commonly used mode when encrypting data with an encryption algorithm. Unlike ECB mode, the resulting cyphertext at each step is dependent upon all the cypher text values that preceeded it. In the first step there is no preceding cypher text to rely on, so instead an initialization vector is used. It forms, in essence a secondary key. - -![Cipher Block Chaining Decryption](CBC_decrypt.png) - -Other Modes -=========== - -There are several other modes used with crypto algorithms that we won't be covering here. The wikipedia page on block cypher modes is a good resource in this regard. - -The only thing that bears mentioning in regards to the other modes is that a couple of them (Output FeedBack and Cipher Feedback) allow for encryption functions that are not reversible, as long as they are replayable. The ciphers only act as key factories for each step in the encryption process, so we only need to get them to reproduce the keys. You can essentially use any operation as the cipher in this case: addition, complicated bit logic, or even a random number generator. - -The problem -=========== - -Decrypt the following using CBC mode with 'xor' as the encryption algorithm, 0x5Ae2 as a two byte key, and 0x3a21 as an initialization vector (You'll be encrypting to bytes at a time): - -08 a6 3e 28 0b ea 32 7a 11 e8 3f 65 44 diff --git a/packages/net-re/6000/CBC.png b/packages/net-re/6000/CBC.png deleted file mode 100644 index ab3749e..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/6000/CBC.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/6000/CBC_decrypt.png b/packages/net-re/6000/CBC_decrypt.png deleted file mode 100644 index 7a44ad1..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/6000/CBC_decrypt.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/6000/ECB.png b/packages/net-re/6000/ECB.png deleted file mode 100644 index 2586e69..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/6000/ECB.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/6000/Makefile b/packages/net-re/6000/Makefile deleted file mode 100644 index fc70e36..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/6000/Makefile +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -all: - cp *.png $(DESTDIR) diff --git a/packages/net-re/6000/make_cyphertext.py b/packages/net-re/6000/make_cyphertext.py deleted file mode 100644 index 02c598c..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/6000/make_cyphertext.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ -msg = 'hello crypto!' - -v = [0x3a, 0x21] -k = (0x5A, 0xe2) -ct = [] -for i in range(0, len(msg), len(k)): - for j in range(len(k)): - if (i+j < len(msg)): - p = ord(msg[i+j]) - r = (p ^ v[j]) ^ k[j] - v[j] = r - ct.append(r) - -for v in ct: - print '%02x' % v, -print - diff --git a/packages/net-re/6100/@answer.txt b/packages/net-re/6100/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index bda903a..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/6100/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -intangible diff --git a/packages/net-re/6100/@index.mdwn b/packages/net-re/6100/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 3e5c697..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/6100/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ -More Cipher Block Chaining -========================== - -Decrypt the file in the attached pcap. This is like the prior problem, except this time you don't know the key or initialization vector (IV). The key and IV are each one byte long. - -If you're using Windows, [file for Windows](http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/file.htm) might be useful. diff --git a/packages/net-re/6100/Makefile b/packages/net-re/6100/Makefile deleted file mode 100644 index 124ea6d..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/6100/Makefile +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@ -all: exe - cp data.pcap $(DESTDIR) - -exe: exe.c - gcc -o exe exe.c diff --git a/packages/net-re/6100/data.pcap b/packages/net-re/6100/data.pcap deleted file mode 100644 index 0ec04eb..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/6100/data.pcap and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/6100/exe b/packages/net-re/6100/exe deleted file mode 100755 index decc599..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/6100/exe and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/6100/exe.c b/packages/net-re/6100/exe.c deleted file mode 100644 index f0f4768..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/6100/exe.c +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@ -#include - -int main() { - printf("The key is 'intangible'."); -} diff --git a/packages/net-re/6100/sender.py b/packages/net-re/6100/sender.py deleted file mode 100644 index 03145e6..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/6100/sender.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,28 +0,0 @@ -from socket import * - -data = open('exe', 'rb').read() - -bs = 1020 -pos = 0 -tid = 0x52ab -pid = 0 - -key = 0x52 -IV = 0xe3 - -data = [ord(c) for c in data] -ciphertext = [] -for c in data: - ct = (IV ^ c) ^ key - IV = ct - ciphertext.append(ct) -ciphertext = ''.join([chr(c) for c in ciphertext]) - - -sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM) -addr = ("127.0.0.1", 49143) - -while (pos < len(data)): - sock.sendto("%04x%04x%s" % (tid, pid, data[pos:pos+bs]), addr) - pos = pos + bs - pid += 1 diff --git a/packages/net-re/6200/@answer.txt b/packages/net-re/6200/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 789bfb0..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/6200/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court diff --git a/packages/net-re/6200/@index.mdwn b/packages/net-re/6200/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index be8914e..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/6200/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,34 +0,0 @@ -Substitution Boxes -================== - -As previously mentioned, we can use operations other than XOR to 'encrypt' our data. Substitution Boxes, or S-Boxes, are used as a step in many block ciphers, including AES, Blowfish, and DES. S-Boxes are trivial to implement in both high level languages and assembly (it's just an array). - -Here's an example 4 bit S-Box: - - | 00 | 01 | 10 | 11 - ------------------------ - 00 | 1 | a | c | 0 - ------------------------ - 01 | b | 3 | 2 | 7 - ------------------------ - 10 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 9 - ------------------------ - 11 | 8 | f | e | d - -Two input bits select the column, two input bits select the row. The resulting value is the output. To reverse the process, we must invert the S-Box such that the output values produce the input values. You would also need to know which bits of input selected the column and which selected the row. - -There isn't a key involved in the S-Box, other than the arrangement of values in the box. Both the input values are data to be encoded. In some algorithms, like AES, the S-Box is a constant, and the key is involved at other steps in the process. In other cases, like BlowFish, the key is used to generate the sbox itself. - -To unravel an S-Box, you really need to know what the values contained in it actually are. To get the values, you may have to have a malware reverse engineer poke around in the binary. S-Boxes vary in size, but are commonly 16x16, using the upper four bits in a character to index the row, and the lower 4 bits for the column. Look for a chunk of data 256 bytes long that doesn't contain any repeated values. - -Is it likely that you'll find this method actually being used? I hope so, since it's actually solvable. Instead you may find an Sbox associated with a commonly used crypto system such as AES, which would at least tell you the algorithm being used. That's solvable too, but you'll have to acquire the actual AES key! - -The problem -=========== - -Working with a reverse engineer, you determined that the packets in the following pcap were encrypted using an Sbox in ECB mode. You even found the arrangement of the sbox in the malware. - -The Key -======= - -The key is the title of the book that was sent. diff --git a/packages/net-re/6200/Makefile b/packages/net-re/6200/Makefile deleted file mode 100644 index 89a1b8c..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/6200/Makefile +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -all: - cp sbox.pcap sbox.txt $(DESTDIR) diff --git a/packages/net-re/6200/sbox.pcap b/packages/net-re/6200/sbox.pcap deleted file mode 100644 index e51e1e7..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/6200/sbox.pcap and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/6200/sbox.txt b/packages/net-re/6200/sbox.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 4894b7f..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/6200/sbox.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -22d9c2417e72a6ca1707d66ec10071b73af2e709088bf060386b0a3b73823e3d397a4e05d893a830fedd2058b9b6ef6dd3ab5098e3d784970c42cb682b8fb3ad5e7085c887627f0b10b5fb9b612a83fac68ddf3786f496744590f501c9d1e4bcce7d8e6312e0922e797653518aa2a0690d33289de1cdccd23cdbac180403bf401ea3541627882c49ba6f4f780e5d66311fec9135a7dc0f0629c02fbdb29944fcd58c43af649f55ae194df9ea52e856f6c4674602e914daf89c2de5fdb1805b5934b06c261db44c895ae6ed11365cffc75f3fb8d4f157e2a97cf725aa1b23de47be9acf654b48d09eeec51a811c1321c3a5bb6a94a4757b32154af395eb7724a1 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/net-re/6200/sender.py b/packages/net-re/6200/sender.py deleted file mode 100644 index dda0c63..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/6200/sender.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,38 +0,0 @@ -from socket import * -import random -import sys - -data = open('twain.txt', 'rb').read() -sbox_file = open('sbox.txt', 'wb') - -try: - src_port = int(sys.argv[1]) - dest_ip = sys.argv[2] - dest_port = int(sys.argv[3]) -except: - print "Usage: python sender.py src_port dest_ip dest_port" - -random.seed(1) -sbox = [] -l = range(256) -for i in range(256): - v = random.choice(l) - sbox.append(v) - l.remove(v) - sbox_file.write('%02x' % v) -sbox_file.close() - -data = [ord(c) for c in data] -ciphertext = [] -for c in data: - row = (c & 0xf0) >> 4 - col = c & 0x0f - index = row * 16 + col - ciphertext.append(chr(sbox[index])) -ciphertext = ''.join(ciphertext) - -sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM) -addr = ("", src_port) -sock.bind((addr)) -sock.connect((dest_ip, dest_port)) -sock.send(ciphertext) diff --git a/packages/net-re/6200/twain.txt b/packages/net-re/6200/twain.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 4e1180e..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/6200/twain.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13310 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's -Court, Complete, by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net - - -Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Complete - -Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) - -Release Date: July 20, 2006 [EBook #86] -Last Updated: May 19, 2010 - -Language: English - - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CONNECTICUT YANKEE *** - - - - -Produced by David Widger and Janet Blenkinship - - - - - - -A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT - -by - -MARK TWAIN -(Samuel L. Clemens) - - - - -PREFACE - -The ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are -historical, and the episodes which are used to illustrate them -are also historical. It is not pretended that these laws and -customs existed in England in the sixth century; no, it is only -pretended that inasmuch as they existed in the English and other -civilizations of far later times, it is safe to consider that it is -no libel upon the sixth century to suppose them to have been in -practice in that day also. One is quite justified in inferring -that whatever one of these laws or customs was lacking in that -remote time, its place was competently filled by a worse one. - -The question as to whether there is such a thing as divine right -of kings is not settled in this book. It was found too difficult. -That the executive head of a nation should be a person of lofty -character and extraordinary ability, was manifest and indisputable; -that none but the Deity could select that head unerringly, was -also manifest and indisputable; that the Deity ought to make that -selection, then, was likewise manifest and indisputable; consequently, -that He does make it, as claimed, was an unavoidable deduction. -I mean, until the author of this book encountered the Pompadour, -and Lady Castlemaine, and some other executive heads of that kind; -these were found so difficult to work into the scheme, that it -was judged better to take the other tack in this book (which -must be issued this fall), and then go into training and settle -the question in another book. It is, of course, a thing which -ought to be settled, and I am not going to have anything particular -to do next winter anyway. - -MARK TWAIN - -HARTFORD, July 21, 1889 - - - - - - -A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT - - - - -A WORD OF EXPLANATION - -It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger -whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me by three things: -his candid simplicity, his marvelous familiarity with ancient armor, -and the restfulness of his company--for he did all the talking. -We fell together, as modest people will, in the tail of the herd -that was being shown through, and he at once began to say things -which interested me. As he talked along, softly, pleasantly, -flowingly, he seemed to drift away imperceptibly out of this world -and time, and into some remote era and old forgotten country; -and so he gradually wove such a spell about me that I seemed -to move among the specters and shadows and dust and mold of a gray -antiquity, holding speech with a relic of it! Exactly as I would -speak of my nearest personal friends or enemies, or my most familiar -neighbors, he spoke of Sir Bedivere, Sir Bors de Ganis, Sir Launcelot -of the Lake, Sir Galahad, and all the other great names of the -Table Round--and how old, old, unspeakably old and faded and dry -and musty and ancient he came to look as he went on! Presently -he turned to me and said, just as one might speak of the weather, -or any other common matter-- - -"You know about transmigration of souls; do you know about -transposition of epochs--and bodies?" - -I said I had not heard of it. He was so little interested--just -as when people speak of the weather--that he did not notice -whether I made him any answer or not. There was half a moment -of silence, immediately interrupted by the droning voice of the -salaried cicerone: - -"Ancient hauberk, date of the sixth century, time of King Arthur -and the Round Table; said to have belonged to the knight Sir Sagramor -le Desirous; observe the round hole through the chain-mail in -the left breast; can't be accounted for; supposed to have been -done with a bullet since invention of firearms--perhaps maliciously -by Cromwell's soldiers." - -My acquaintance smiled--not a modern smile, but one that must -have gone out of general use many, many centuries ago--and muttered -apparently to himself: - -"Wit ye well, _I saw it done_." Then, after a pause, added: -"I did it myself." - -By the time I had recovered from the electric surprise of this -remark, he was gone. - -All that evening I sat by my fire at the Warwick Arms, steeped -in a dream of the olden time, while the rain beat upon the windows, -and the wind roared about the eaves and corners. From time to -time I dipped into old Sir Thomas Malory's enchanting book, and -fed at its rich feast of prodigies and adventures, breathed in -the fragrance of its obsolete names, and dreamed again. Midnight -being come at length, I read another tale, for a nightcap--this -which here follows, to wit: - -HOW SIR LAUNCELOT SLEW TWO GIANTS, AND MADE A CASTLE FREE - - Anon withal came there upon him two great giants, - well armed, all save the heads, with two horrible - clubs in their hands. Sir Launcelot put his shield - afore him, and put the stroke away of the one - giant, and with his sword he clave his head asunder. - When his fellow saw that, he ran away as he were - wood [*demented], for fear of the horrible strokes, - and Sir Launcelot after him with all his might, - and smote him on the shoulder, and clave him to - the middle. Then Sir Launcelot went into the hall, - and there came afore him three score ladies and - damsels, and all kneeled unto him, and thanked - God and him of their deliverance. For, sir, said - they, the most part of us have been here this - seven year their prisoners, and we have worked all - manner of silk works for our meat, and we are all - great gentle-women born, and blessed be the time, - knight, that ever thou wert born; for thou hast - done the most worship that ever did knight in the - world, that will we bear record, and we all pray - you to tell us your name, that we may tell our - friends who delivered us out of prison. Fair - damsels, he said, my name is Sir Launcelot du - Lake. And so he departed from them and betaught - them unto God. And then he mounted upon his - horse, and rode into many strange and wild - countries, and through many waters and valleys, - and evil was he lodged. And at the last by - fortune him happened against a night to come to - a fair courtilage, and therein he found an old - gentle-woman that lodged him with a good-will, - and there he had good cheer for him and his horse. - And when time was, his host brought him into a - fair garret over the gate to his bed. There - Sir Launcelot unarmed him, and set his harness - by him, and went to bed, and anon he fell on - sleep. So, soon after there came one on - horseback, and knocked at the gate in great - haste. And when Sir Launcelot heard this he rose - up, and looked out at the window, and saw by the - moonlight three knights come riding after that - one man, and all three lashed on him at once - with swords, and that one knight turned on them - knightly again and defended him. Truly, said - Sir Launcelot, yonder one knight shall I help, - for it were shame for me to see three knights - on one, and if he be slain I am partner of his - death. And therewith he took his harness and - went out at a window by a sheet down to the four - knights, and then Sir Launcelot said on high, - Turn you knights unto me, and leave your - fighting with that knight. And then they all - three left Sir Kay, and turned unto Sir Launcelot, - and there began great battle, for they alight - all three, and strake many strokes at Sir - Launcelot, and assailed him on every side. Then - Sir Kay dressed him for to have holpen Sir - Launcelot. Nay, sir, said he, I will none of - your help, therefore as ye will have my help - let me alone with them. Sir Kay for the pleasure - of the knight suffered him for to do his will, - and so stood aside. And then anon within six - strokes Sir Launcelot had stricken them to the earth. - - And then they all three cried, Sir Knight, we - yield us unto you as man of might matchless. As - to that, said Sir Launcelot, I will not take - your yielding unto me, but so that ye yield - you unto Sir Kay the seneschal, on that covenant - I will save your lives and else not. Fair knight, - said they, that were we loath to do; for as for - Sir Kay we chased him hither, and had overcome - him had ye not been; therefore, to yield us unto - him it were no reason. Well, as to that, said - Sir Launcelot, advise you well, for ye may - choose whether ye will die or live, for an ye be - yielden, it shall be unto Sir Kay. Fair knight, - then they said, in saving our lives we will do - as thou commandest us. Then shall ye, said Sir - Launcelot, on Whitsunday next coming go unto the - court of King Arthur, and there shall ye yield - you unto Queen Guenever, and put you all three - in her grace and mercy, and say that Sir Kay - sent you thither to be her prisoners. On the morn - Sir Launcelot arose early, and left Sir Kay - sleeping; and Sir Launcelot took Sir Kay's armor - and his shield and armed him, and so he went to - the stable and took his horse, and took his leave - of his host, and so he departed. Then soon after - arose Sir Kay and missed Sir Launcelot; and - then he espied that he had his armor and his - horse. Now by my faith I know well that he will - grieve some of the court of King Arthur; for on - him knights will be bold, and deem that it is I, - and that will beguile them; and because of his - armor and shield I am sure I shall ride in peace. - And then soon after departed Sir Kay, and - thanked his host. - - -As I laid the book down there was a knock at the door, and my -stranger came in. I gave him a pipe and a chair, and made him -welcome. I also comforted him with a hot Scotch whisky; gave him -another one; then still another--hoping always for his story. -After a fourth persuader, he drifted into it himself, in a quite -simple and natural way: - - - -THE STRANGER'S HISTORY - -I am an American. I was born and reared in Hartford, in the State -of Connecticut--anyway, just over the river, in the country. So -I am a Yankee of the Yankees--and practical; yes, and nearly -barren of sentiment, I suppose--or poetry, in other words. My -father was a blacksmith, my uncle was a horse doctor, and I was -both, along at first. Then I went over to the great arms factory -and learned my real trade; learned all there was to it; learned -to make everything: guns, revolvers, cannon, boilers, engines, all -sorts of labor-saving machinery. Why, I could make anything -a body wanted--anything in the world, it didn't make any difference -what; and if there wasn't any quick new-fangled way to make a thing, -I could invent one--and do it as easy as rolling off a log. I became -head superintendent; had a couple of thousand men under me. - -Well, a man like that is a man that is full of fight--that goes -without saying. With a couple of thousand rough men under one, -one has plenty of that sort of amusement. I had, anyway. At last -I met my match, and I got my dose. It was during a misunderstanding -conducted with crowbars with a fellow we used to call Hercules. -He laid me out with a crusher alongside the head that made everything -crack, and seemed to spring every joint in my skull and made it -overlap its neighbor. Then the world went out in darkness, and -I didn't feel anything more, and didn't know anything at all ---at least for a while. - -When I came to again, I was sitting under an oak tree, on the -grass, with a whole beautiful and broad country landscape all -to myself--nearly. Not entirely; for there was a fellow on a horse, -looking down at me--a fellow fresh out of a picture-book. He was -in old-time iron armor from head to heel, with a helmet on his -head the shape of a nail-keg with slits in it; and he had a shield, -and a sword, and a prodigious spear; and his horse had armor on, -too, and a steel horn projecting from his forehead, and gorgeous -red and green silk trappings that hung down all around him like -a bedquilt, nearly to the ground. - -"Fair sir, will ye just?" said this fellow. - -"Will I which?" - -"Will ye try a passage of arms for land or lady or for--" - -"What are you giving me?" I said. "Get along back to your circus, -or I'll report you." - -Now what does this man do but fall back a couple of hundred yards -and then come rushing at me as hard as he could tear, with his -nail-keg bent down nearly to his horse's neck and his long spear -pointed straight ahead. I saw he meant business, so I was up -the tree when he arrived. - -He allowed that I was his property, the captive of his spear. -There was argument on his side--and the bulk of the advantage ---so I judged it best to humor him. We fixed up an agreement -whereby I was to go with him and he was not to hurt me. I came -down, and we started away, I walking by the side of his horse. -We marched comfortably along, through glades and over brooks which -I could not remember to have seen before--which puzzled me and -made me wonder--and yet we did not come to any circus or sign of -a circus. So I gave up the idea of a circus, and concluded he was -from an asylum. But we never came to an asylum--so I was up -a stump, as you may say. I asked him how far we were from Hartford. -He said he had never heard of the place; which I took to be a lie, -but allowed it to go at that. At the end of an hour we saw a -far-away town sleeping in a valley by a winding river; and beyond -it on a hill, a vast gray fortress, with towers and turrets, -the first I had ever seen out of a picture. - -"Bridgeport?" said I, pointing. - -"Camelot," said he. - - -My stranger had been showing signs of sleepiness. He caught -himself nodding, now, and smiled one of those pathetic, obsolete -smiles of his, and said: - -"I find I can't go on; but come with me, I've got it all written -out, and you can read it if you like." - -In his chamber, he said: "First, I kept a journal; then by and by, -after years, I took the journal and turned it into a book. How -long ago that was!" - -He handed me his manuscript, and pointed out the place where -I should begin: - -"Begin here--I've already told you what goes before." He was -steeped in drowsiness by this time. As I went out at his door -I heard him murmur sleepily: "Give you good den, fair sir." - -I sat down by my fire and examined my treasure. The first part -of it--the great bulk of it--was parchment, and yellow with age. -I scanned a leaf particularly and saw that it was a palimpsest. -Under the old dim writing of the Yankee historian appeared traces -of a penmanship which was older and dimmer still--Latin words -and sentences: fragments from old monkish legends, evidently. -I turned to the place indicated by my stranger and began to read ---as follows: - - - - -THE TALE OF THE LOST LAND - - - - -CHAPTER I - -CAMELOT - -"Camelot--Camelot," said I to myself. "I don't seem to remember -hearing of it before. Name of the asylum, likely." - -It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, -and as lonesome as Sunday. The air was full of the smell of -flowers, and the buzzing of insects, and the twittering of birds, -and there were no people, no wagons, there was no stir of life, -nothing going on. The road was mainly a winding path with hoof-prints -in it, and now and then a faint trace of wheels on either side in -the grass--wheels that apparently had a tire as broad as one's hand. - -Presently a fair slip of a girl, about ten years old, with a cataract -of golden hair streaming down over her shoulders, came along. -Around her head she wore a hoop of flame-red poppies. It was as -sweet an outfit as ever I saw, what there was of it. She walked -indolently along, with a mind at rest, its peace reflected in her -innocent face. The circus man paid no attention to her; didn't -even seem to see her. And she--she was no more startled at his -fantastic make-up than if she was used to his like every day of -her life. She was going by as indifferently as she might have gone -by a couple of cows; but when she happened to notice me, _then_ -there was a change! Up went her hands, and she was turned to stone; -her mouth dropped open, her eyes stared wide and timorously, she -was the picture of astonished curiosity touched with fear. And -there she stood gazing, in a sort of stupefied fascination, till -we turned a corner of the wood and were lost to her view. That -she should be startled at me instead of at the other man, was too -many for me; I couldn't make head or tail of it. And that she -should seem to consider me a spectacle, and totally overlook her -own merits in that respect, was another puzzling thing, and a -display of magnanimity, too, that was surprising in one so young. -There was food for thought here. I moved along as one in a dream. - -As we approached the town, signs of life began to appear. At -intervals we passed a wretched cabin, with a thatched roof, and -about it small fields and garden patches in an indifferent state of -cultivation. There were people, too; brawny men, with long, coarse, -uncombed hair that hung down over their faces and made them look -like animals. They and the women, as a rule, wore a coarse -tow-linen robe that came well below the knee, and a rude sort of -sandal, and many wore an iron collar. The small boys and girls -were always naked; but nobody seemed to know it. All of these -people stared at me, talked about me, ran into the huts and fetched -out their families to gape at me; but nobody ever noticed that -other fellow, except to make him humble salutation and get no -response for their pains. - -In the town were some substantial windowless houses of stone -scattered among a wilderness of thatched cabins; the streets were -mere crooked alleys, and unpaved; troops of dogs and nude children -played in the sun and made life and noise; hogs roamed and rooted -contentedly about, and one of them lay in a reeking wallow in -the middle of the main thoroughfare and suckled her family. -Presently there was a distant blare of military music; it came -nearer, still nearer, and soon a noble cavalcade wound into view, -glorious with plumed helmets and flashing mail and flaunting banners -and rich doublets and horse-cloths and gilded spearheads; and -through the muck and swine, and naked brats, and joyous dogs, and -shabby huts, it took its gallant way, and in its wake we followed. -Followed through one winding alley and then another,--and climbing, -always climbing--till at last we gained the breezy height where -the huge castle stood. There was an exchange of bugle blasts; -then a parley from the walls, where men-at-arms, in hauberk and -morion, marched back and forth with halberd at shoulder under -flapping banners with the rude figure of a dragon displayed upon -them; and then the great gates were flung open, the drawbridge -was lowered, and the head of the cavalcade swept forward under -the frowning arches; and we, following, soon found ourselves in -a great paved court, with towers and turrets stretching up into -the blue air on all the four sides; and all about us the dismount -was going on, and much greeting and ceremony, and running to and -fro, and a gay display of moving and intermingling colors, and -an altogether pleasant stir and noise and confusion. - - - -CHAPTER II - -KING ARTHUR'S COURT - -The moment I got a chance I slipped aside privately and touched -an ancient common looking man on the shoulder and said, in an -insinuating, confidential way: - -"Friend, do me a kindness. Do you belong to the asylum, or are -you just on a visit or something like that?" - -He looked me over stupidly, and said: - -"Marry, fair sir, me seemeth--" - -"That will do," I said; "I reckon you are a patient." - -I moved away, cogitating, and at the same time keeping an eye -out for any chance passenger in his right mind that might come -along and give me some light. I judged I had found one, presently; -so I drew him aside and said in his ear: - -"If I could see the head keeper a minute--only just a minute--" - -"Prithee do not let me." - -"Let you _what_?" - -"_Hinder_ me, then, if the word please thee better. Then he went -on to say he was an under-cook and could not stop to gossip, -though he would like it another time; for it would comfort his -very liver to know where I got my clothes. As he started away he -pointed and said yonder was one who was idle enough for my purpose, -and was seeking me besides, no doubt. This was an airy slim boy -in shrimp-colored tights that made him look like a forked carrot, -the rest of his gear was blue silk and dainty laces and ruffles; -and he had long yellow curls, and wore a plumed pink satin cap -tilted complacently over his ear. By his look, he was good-natured; -by his gait, he was satisfied with himself. He was pretty enough -to frame. He arrived, looked me over with a smiling and impudent -curiosity; said he had come for me, and informed me that he was a page. - -"Go 'long," I said; "you ain't more than a paragraph." - -It was pretty severe, but I was nettled. However, it never phazed -him; he didn't appear to know he was hurt. He began to talk and -laugh, in happy, thoughtless, boyish fashion, as we walked along, -and made himself old friends with me at once; asked me all sorts -of questions about myself and about my clothes, but never waited -for an answer--always chattered straight ahead, as if he didn't -know he had asked a question and wasn't expecting any reply, until -at last he happened to mention that he was born in the beginning -of the year 513. - -It made the cold chills creep over me! I stopped and said, -a little faintly: - -"Maybe I didn't hear you just right. Say it again--and say it -slow. What year was it?" - -"513." - -"513! You don't look it! Come, my boy, I am a stranger and -friendless; be honest and honorable with me. Are you in your -right mind?" - -He said he was. - -"Are these other people in their right minds?" - -He said they were. - -"And this isn't an asylum? I mean, it isn't a place where they -cure crazy people?" - -He said it wasn't. - -"Well, then," I said, "either I am a lunatic, or something just -as awful has happened. Now tell me, honest and true, where am I?" - -"IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT." - -I waited a minute, to let that idea shudder its way home, -and then said: - -"And according to your notions, what year is it now?" - -"528--nineteenth of June." - -I felt a mournful sinking at the heart, and muttered: "I shall -never see my friends again--never, never again. They will not -be born for more than thirteen hundred years yet." - -I seemed to believe the boy, I didn't know why. _Something_ in me -seemed to believe him--my consciousness, as you may say; but my -reason didn't. My reason straightway began to clamor; that was -natural. I didn't know how to go about satisfying it, because -I knew that the testimony of men wouldn't serve--my reason would -say they were lunatics, and throw out their evidence. But all -of a sudden I stumbled on the very thing, just by luck. I knew -that the only total eclipse of the sun in the first half of the -sixth century occurred on the 21st of June, A.D. 528, O.S., and -began at 3 minutes after 12 noon. I also knew that no total eclipse -of the sun was due in what to _me_ was the present year--i.e., 1879. -So, if I could keep my anxiety and curiosity from eating the heart -out of me for forty-eight hours, I should then find out for certain -whether this boy was telling me the truth or not. - -Wherefore, being a practical Connecticut man, I now shoved this -whole problem clear out of my mind till its appointed day and hour -should come, in order that I might turn all my attention to the -circumstances of the present moment, and be alert and ready to -make the most out of them that could be made. One thing at a time, -is my motto--and just play that thing for all it is worth, even -if it's only two pair and a jack. I made up my mind to two things: -if it was still the nineteenth century and I was among lunatics -and couldn't get away, I would presently boss that asylum or know -the reason why; and if, on the other hand, it was really the sixth -century, all right, I didn't want any softer thing: I would boss -the whole country inside of three months; for I judged I would -have the start of the best-educated man in the kingdom by a matter -of thirteen hundred years and upward. I'm not a man to waste -time after my mind's made up and there's work on hand; so I said -to the page: - -"Now, Clarence, my boy--if that might happen to be your name ---I'll get you to post me up a little if you don't mind. What is -the name of that apparition that brought me here?" - -"My master and thine? That is the good knight and great lord -Sir Kay the Seneschal, foster brother to our liege the king." - -"Very good; go on, tell me everything." - -He made a long story of it; but the part that had immediate interest -for me was this: He said I was Sir Kay's prisoner, and that -in the due course of custom I would be flung into a dungeon and -left there on scant commons until my friends ransomed me--unless -I chanced to rot, first. I saw that the last chance had the best -show, but I didn't waste any bother about that; time was too -precious. The page said, further, that dinner was about ended -in the great hall by this time, and that as soon as the sociability -and the heavy drinking should begin, Sir Kay would have me in and -exhibit me before King Arthur and his illustrious knights seated at -the Table Round, and would brag about his exploit in capturing -me, and would probably exaggerate the facts a little, but it -wouldn't be good form for me to correct him, and not over safe, -either; and when I was done being exhibited, then ho for the -dungeon; but he, Clarence, would find a way to come and see me every -now and then, and cheer me up, and help me get word to my friends. - -Get word to my friends! I thanked him; I couldn't do less; and -about this time a lackey came to say I was wanted; so Clarence -led me in and took me off to one side and sat down by me. - -Well, it was a curious kind of spectacle, and interesting. It was -an immense place, and rather naked--yes, and full of loud contrasts. -It was very, very lofty; so lofty that the banners depending from -the arched beams and girders away up there floated in a sort of -twilight; there was a stone-railed gallery at each end, high up, -with musicians in the one, and women, clothed in stunning colors, -in the other. The floor was of big stone flags laid in black and -white squares, rather battered by age and use, and needing repair. -As to ornament, there wasn't any, strictly speaking; though on -the walls hung some huge tapestries which were probably taxed -as works of art; battle-pieces, they were, with horses shaped like -those which children cut out of paper or create in gingerbread; -with men on them in scale armor whose scales are represented by -round holes--so that the man's coat looks as if it had been done -with a biscuit-punch. There was a fireplace big enough to camp in; -and its projecting sides and hood, of carved and pillared stonework, -had the look of a cathedral door. Along the walls stood men-at-arms, -in breastplate and morion, with halberds for their only weapon ---rigid as statues; and that is what they looked like. - -In the middle of this groined and vaulted public square was an oaken -table which they called the Table Round. It was as large as -a circus ring; and around it sat a great company of men dressed -in such various and splendid colors that it hurt one's eyes to look -at them. They wore their plumed hats, right along, except that -whenever one addressed himself directly to the king, he lifted -his hat a trifle just as he was beginning his remark. - -Mainly they were drinking--from entire ox horns; but a few were -still munching bread or gnawing beef bones. There was about -an average of two dogs to one man; and these sat in expectant -attitudes till a spent bone was flung to them, and then they went -for it by brigades and divisions, with a rush, and there ensued -a fight which filled the prospect with a tumultuous chaos of -plunging heads and bodies and flashing tails, and the storm of -howlings and barkings deafened all speech for the time; but that -was no matter, for the dog-fight was always a bigger interest -anyway; the men rose, sometimes, to observe it the better and bet -on it, and the ladies and the musicians stretched themselves out -over their balusters with the same object; and all broke into -delighted ejaculations from time to time. In the end, the winning -dog stretched himself out comfortably with his bone between his -paws, and proceeded to growl over it, and gnaw it, and grease -the floor with it, just as fifty others were already doing; and the -rest of the court resumed their previous industries and entertainments. - -As a rule, the speech and behavior of these people were gracious -and courtly; and I noticed that they were good and serious listeners -when anybody was telling anything--I mean in a dog-fightless -interval. And plainly, too, they were a childlike and innocent lot; -telling lies of the stateliest pattern with a most gentle and -winning naivety, and ready and willing to listen to anybody else's -lie, and believe it, too. It was hard to associate them with -anything cruel or dreadful; and yet they dealt in tales of blood -and suffering with a guileless relish that made me almost forget -to shudder. - -I was not the only prisoner present. There were twenty or more. -Poor devils, many of them were maimed, hacked, carved, in a frightful -way; and their hair, their faces, their clothing, were caked with -black and stiffened drenchings of blood. They were suffering -sharp physical pain, of course; and weariness, and hunger and -thirst, no doubt; and at least none had given them the comfort -of a wash, or even the poor charity of a lotion for their wounds; -yet you never heard them utter a moan or a groan, or saw them show -any sign of restlessness, or any disposition to complain. The -thought was forced upon me: "The rascals--_they_ have served other -people so in their day; it being their own turn, now, they were -not expecting any better treatment than this; so their philosophical -bearing is not an outcome of mental training, intellectual fortitude, -reasoning; it is mere animal training; they are white Indians." - - - -CHAPTER III - -KNIGHTS OF THE TABLE ROUND - -Mainly the Round Table talk was monologues--narrative accounts -of the adventures in which these prisoners were captured and their -friends and backers killed and stripped of their steeds and armor. -As a general thing--as far as I could make out--these murderous -adventures were not forays undertaken to avenge injuries, nor to -settle old disputes or sudden fallings out; no, as a rule they were -simply duels between strangers--duels between people who had never -even been introduced to each other, and between whom existed no -cause of offense whatever. Many a time I had seen a couple of boys, -strangers, meet by chance, and say simultaneously, "I can lick you," -and go at it on the spot; but I had always imagined until now that -that sort of thing belonged to children only, and was a sign and -mark of childhood; but here were these big boobies sticking to it -and taking pride in it clear up into full age and beyond. Yet there -was something very engaging about these great simple-hearted -creatures, something attractive and lovable. There did not seem -to be brains enough in the entire nursery, so to speak, to bait -a fish-hook with; but you didn't seem to mind that, after a little, -because you soon saw that brains were not needed in a society -like that, and indeed would have marred it, hindered it, spoiled -its symmetry--perhaps rendered its existence impossible. - -There was a fine manliness observable in almost every face; and -in some a certain loftiness and sweetness that rebuked your -belittling criticisms and stilled them. A most noble benignity -and purity reposed in the countenance of him they called Sir Galahad, -and likewise in the king's also; and there was majesty and greatness -in the giant frame and high bearing of Sir Launcelot of the Lake. - -There was presently an incident which centered the general interest -upon this Sir Launcelot. At a sign from a sort of master of -ceremonies, six or eight of the prisoners rose and came forward -in a body and knelt on the floor and lifted up their hands toward -the ladies' gallery and begged the grace of a word with the queen. -The most conspicuously situated lady in that massed flower-bed -of feminine show and finery inclined her head by way of assent, -and then the spokesman of the prisoners delivered himself and his -fellows into her hands for free pardon, ransom, captivity, or death, -as she in her good pleasure might elect; and this, as he said, he -was doing by command of Sir Kay the Seneschal, whose prisoners -they were, he having vanquished them by his single might and -prowess in sturdy conflict in the field. - -Surprise and astonishment flashed from face to face all over -the house; the queen's gratified smile faded out at the name of -Sir Kay, and she looked disappointed; and the page whispered in -my ear with an accent and manner expressive of extravagant derision-- - -"Sir _Kay_, forsooth! Oh, call me pet names, dearest, call me -a marine! In twice a thousand years shall the unholy invention -of man labor at odds to beget the fellow to this majestic lie!" - -Every eye was fastened with severe inquiry upon Sir Kay. But he -was equal to the occasion. He got up and played his hand like -a major--and took every trick. He said he would state the case -exactly according to the facts; he would tell the simple -straightforward tale, without comment of his own; "and then," -said he, "if ye find glory and honor due, ye will give it unto him -who is the mightiest man of his hands that ever bare shield or -strake with sword in the ranks of Christian battle--even him that -sitteth there!" and he pointed to Sir Launcelot. Ah, he fetched -them; it was a rattling good stroke. Then he went on and told -how Sir Launcelot, seeking adventures, some brief time gone by, -killed seven giants at one sweep of his sword, and set a hundred -and forty-two captive maidens free; and then went further, still -seeking adventures, and found him (Sir Kay) fighting a desperate -fight against nine foreign knights, and straightway took the battle -solely into his own hands, and conquered the nine; and that night -Sir Launcelot rose quietly, and dressed him in Sir Kay's armor and -took Sir Kay's horse and gat him away into distant lands, and -vanquished sixteen knights in one pitched battle and thirty-four -in another; and all these and the former nine he made to swear -that about Whitsuntide they would ride to Arthur's court and yield -them to Queen Guenever's hands as captives of Sir Kay the Seneschal, -spoil of his knightly prowess; and now here were these half dozen, -and the rest would be along as soon as they might be healed of -their desperate wounds. - -Well, it was touching to see the queen blush and smile, and look -embarrassed and happy, and fling furtive glances at Sir Launcelot -that would have got him shot in Arkansas, to a dead certainty. - -Everybody praised the valor and magnanimity of Sir Launcelot; and -as for me, I was perfectly amazed, that one man, all by himself, -should have been able to beat down and capture such battalions -of practiced fighters. I said as much to Clarence; but this mocking -featherhead only said: - -"An Sir Kay had had time to get another skin of sour wine into him, -ye had seen the accompt doubled." - -I looked at the boy in sorrow; and as I looked I saw the cloud of -a deep despondency settle upon his countenance. I followed the -direction of his eye, and saw that a very old and white-bearded -man, clothed in a flowing black gown, had risen and was standing -at the table upon unsteady legs, and feebly swaying his ancient -head and surveying the company with his watery and wandering eye. -The same suffering look that was in the page's face was observable -in all the faces around--the look of dumb creatures who know that -they must endure and make no moan. - -"Marry, we shall have it again," sighed the boy; "that same old -weary tale that he hath told a thousand times in the same words, -and that he _will_ tell till he dieth, every time he hath gotten his -barrel full and feeleth his exaggeration-mill a-working. Would -God I had died or I saw this day!" - -"Who is it?" - -"Merlin, the mighty liar and magician, perdition singe him for -the weariness he worketh with his one tale! But that men fear -him for that he hath the storms and the lightnings and all the -devils that be in hell at his beck and call, they would have dug -his entrails out these many years ago to get at that tale and -squelch it. He telleth it always in the third person, making -believe he is too modest to glorify himself--maledictions light -upon him, misfortune be his dole! Good friend, prithee call me -for evensong." - -The boy nestled himself upon my shoulder and pretended to go -to sleep. The old man began his tale; and presently the lad was -asleep in reality; so also were the dogs, and the court, the lackeys, -and the files of men-at-arms. The droning voice droned on; a soft -snoring arose on all sides and supported it like a deep and subdued -accompaniment of wind instruments. Some heads were bowed upon -folded arms, some lay back with open mouths that issued unconscious -music; the flies buzzed and bit, unmolested, the rats swarmed -softly out from a hundred holes, and pattered about, and made -themselves at home everywhere; and one of them sat up like a -squirrel on the king's head and held a bit of cheese in its hands -and nibbled it, and dribbled the crumbs in the king's face with -naive and impudent irreverence. It was a tranquil scene, and -restful to the weary eye and the jaded spirit. - -This was the old man's tale. He said: - -"Right so the king and Merlin departed, and went until an hermit -that was a good man and a great leech. So the hermit searched -all his wounds and gave him good salves; so the king was there -three days, and then were his wounds well amended that he might -ride and go, and so departed. And as they rode, Arthur said, -I have no sword. No force,* [*Footnote from M.T.: No matter.] -said Merlin, hereby is a sword that shall be yours and I may. -So they rode till they came to a lake, the which was a fair water -and broad, and in the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm -clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand. -Lo, said Merlin, yonder is that sword that I spake of. With that -they saw a damsel going upon the lake. What damsel is that? -said Arthur. That is the Lady of the lake, said Merlin; and within -that lake is a rock, and therein is as fair a place as any on earth, -and richly beseen, and this damsel will come to you anon, and then -speak ye fair to her that she will give you that sword. Anon -withal came the damsel unto Arthur and saluted him, and he her -again. Damsel, said Arthur, what sword is that, that yonder -the arm holdeth above the water? I would it were mine, for I have -no sword. Sir Arthur King, said the damsel, that sword is mine, -and if ye will give me a gift when I ask it you, ye shall have it. -By my faith, said Arthur, I will give you what gift ye will ask. -Well, said the damsel, go ye into yonder barge and row yourself -to the sword, and take it and the scabbard with you, and I will ask -my gift when I see my time. So Sir Arthur and Merlin alight, and -tied their horses to two trees, and so they went into the ship, -and when they came to the sword that the hand held, Sir Arthur -took it up by the handles, and took it with him. And the arm -and the hand went under the water; and so they came unto the land -and rode forth. And then Sir Arthur saw a rich pavilion. What -signifieth yonder pavilion? It is the knight's pavilion, said -Merlin, that ye fought with last, Sir Pellinore, but he is out, -he is not there; he hath ado with a knight of yours, that hight -Egglame, and they have fought together, but at the last Egglame -fled, and else he had been dead, and he hath chased him even -to Carlion, and we shall meet with him anon in the highway. That -is well said, said Arthur, now have I a sword, now will I wage -battle with him, and be avenged on him. Sir, ye shall not so, -said Merlin, for the knight is weary of fighting and chasing, so -that ye shall have no worship to have ado with him; also, he will -not lightly be matched of one knight living; and therefore it is my -counsel, let him pass, for he shall do you good service in short -time, and his sons, after his days. Also ye shall see that day -in short space ye shall be right glad to give him your sister -to wed. When I see him, I will do as ye advise me, said Arthur. -Then Sir Arthur looked on the sword, and liked it passing well. -Whether liketh you better, said Merlin, the sword or the scabbard? -Me liketh better the sword, said Arthur. Ye are more unwise, -said Merlin, for the scabbard is worth ten of the sword, for while -ye have the scabbard upon you ye shall never lose no blood, be ye -never so sore wounded; therefore, keep well the scabbard always -with you. So they rode into Carlion, and by the way they met with -Sir Pellinore; but Merlin had done such a craft that Pellinore saw -not Arthur, and he passed by without any words. I marvel, said -Arthur, that the knight would not speak. Sir, said Merlin, he saw -you not; for and he had seen you ye had not lightly departed. So -they came unto Carlion, whereof his knights were passing glad. -And when they heard of his adventures they marveled that he would -jeopard his person so alone. But all men of worship said it was -merry to be under such a chieftain that would put his person in -adventure as other poor knights did." - - - -CHAPTER IV - -SIR DINADAN THE HUMORIST - -It seemed to me that this quaint lie was most simply and beautifully -told; but then I had heard it only once, and that makes a difference; -it was pleasant to the others when it was fresh, no doubt. - -Sir Dinadan the Humorist was the first to awake, and he soon roused -the rest with a practical joke of a sufficiently poor quality. -He tied some metal mugs to a dog's tail and turned him loose, -and he tore around and around the place in a frenzy of fright, -with all the other dogs bellowing after him and battering and -crashing against everything that came in their way and making -altogether a chaos of confusion and a most deafening din and -turmoil; at which every man and woman of the multitude laughed -till the tears flowed, and some fell out of their chairs and -wallowed on the floor in ecstasy. It was just like so many children. -Sir Dinadan was so proud of his exploit that he could not keep -from telling over and over again, to weariness, how the immortal -idea happened to occur to him; and as is the way with humorists -of his breed, he was still laughing at it after everybody else had -got through. He was so set up that he concluded to make a speech ---of course a humorous speech. I think I never heard so many old -played-out jokes strung together in my life. He was worse than -the minstrels, worse than the clown in the circus. It seemed -peculiarly sad to sit here, thirteen hundred years before I was -born, and listen again to poor, flat, worm-eaten jokes that had -given me the dry gripes when I was a boy thirteen hundred years -afterwards. It about convinced me that there isn't any such thing -as a new joke possible. Everybody laughed at these antiquities ---but then they always do; I had noticed that, centuries later. -However, of course the scoffer didn't laugh--I mean the boy. No, -he scoffed; there wasn't anything he wouldn't scoff at. He said -the most of Sir Dinadan's jokes were rotten and the rest were -petrified. I said "petrified" was good; as I believed, myself, -that the only right way to classify the majestic ages of some of -those jokes was by geologic periods. But that neat idea hit -the boy in a blank place, for geology hadn't been invented yet. -However, I made a note of the remark, and calculated to educate -the commonwealth up to it if I pulled through. It is no use -to throw a good thing away merely because the market isn't ripe yet. - -Now Sir Kay arose and began to fire up on his history-mill with me -for fuel. It was time for me to feel serious, and I did. Sir Kay -told how he had encountered me in a far land of barbarians, who -all wore the same ridiculous garb that I did--a garb that was a work -of enchantment, and intended to make the wearer secure from hurt -by human hands. However he had nullified the force of the -enchantment by prayer, and had killed my thirteen knights in -a three hours' battle, and taken me prisoner, sparing my life -in order that so strange a curiosity as I was might be exhibited -to the wonder and admiration of the king and the court. He spoke -of me all the time, in the blandest way, as "this prodigious giant," -and "this horrible sky-towering monster," and "this tusked and -taloned man-devouring ogre", and everybody took in all this bosh -in the naivest way, and never smiled or seemed to notice that -there was any discrepancy between these watered statistics and me. -He said that in trying to escape from him I sprang into the top of -a tree two hundred cubits high at a single bound, but he dislodged -me with a stone the size of a cow, which "all-to brast" the most -of my bones, and then swore me to appear at Arthur's court for -sentence. He ended by condemning me to die at noon on the 21st; -and was so little concerned about it that he stopped to yawn before -he named the date. - -I was in a dismal state by this time; indeed, I was hardly enough -in my right mind to keep the run of a dispute that sprung up as -to how I had better be killed, the possibility of the killing being -doubted by some, because of the enchantment in my clothes. And yet -it was nothing but an ordinary suit of fifteen-dollar slop-shops. -Still, I was sane enough to notice this detail, to wit: many of -the terms used in the most matter-of-fact way by this great -assemblage of the first ladies and gentlemen in the land would -have made a Comanche blush. Indelicacy is too mild a term to convey -the idea. However, I had read "Tom Jones," and "Roderick Random," -and other books of that kind, and knew that the highest and first -ladies and gentlemen in England had remained little or no cleaner -in their talk, and in the morals and conduct which such talk -implies, clear up to a hundred years ago; in fact clear into our -own nineteenth century--in which century, broadly speaking, -the earliest samples of the real lady and real gentleman discoverable -in English history--or in European history, for that matter--may be -said to have made their appearance. Suppose Sir Walter, instead -of putting the conversations into the mouths of his characters, -had allowed the characters to speak for themselves? We should -have had talk from Rebecca and Ivanhoe and the soft lady Rowena -which would embarrass a tramp in our day. However, to the -unconsciously indelicate all things are delicate. King Arthur's -people were not aware that they were indecent and I had presence -of mind enough not to mention it. - -They were so troubled about my enchanted clothes that they were -mightily relieved, at last, when old Merlin swept the difficulty -away for them with a common-sense hint. He asked them why they -were so dull--why didn't it occur to them to strip me. In half a -minute I was as naked as a pair of tongs! And dear, dear, to think -of it: I was the only embarrassed person there. Everybody discussed -me; and did it as unconcernedly as if I had been a cabbage. -Queen Guenever was as naively interested as the rest, and said -she had never seen anybody with legs just like mine before. It was -the only compliment I got--if it was a compliment. - -Finally I was carried off in one direction, and my perilous clothes -in another. I was shoved into a dark and narrow cell in a dungeon, -with some scant remnants for dinner, some moldy straw for a bed, -and no end of rats for company. - - - -CHAPTER V - -AN INSPIRATION - -I was so tired that even my fears were not able to keep me awake long. - -When I next came to myself, I seemed to have been asleep a very -long time. My first thought was, "Well, what an astonishing dream -I've had! I reckon I've waked only just in time to keep from -being hanged or drowned or burned or something.... I'll nap again -till the whistle blows, and then I'll go down to the arms factory -and have it out with Hercules." - -But just then I heard the harsh music of rusty chains and bolts, -a light flashed in my eyes, and that butterfly, Clarence, stood -before me! I gasped with surprise; my breath almost got away from me. - -"What!" I said, "you here yet? Go along with the rest of -the dream! scatter!" - -But he only laughed, in his light-hearted way, and fell to making -fun of my sorry plight. - -"All right," I said resignedly, "let the dream go on; I'm in no hurry." - -"Prithee what dream?" - -"What dream? Why, the dream that I am in Arthur's court--a person -who never existed; and that I am talking to you, who are nothing -but a work of the imagination." - -"Oh, la, indeed! and is it a dream that you're to be burned -to-morrow? Ho-ho--answer me that!" - -The shock that went through me was distressing. I now began -to reason that my situation was in the last degree serious, dream -or no dream; for I knew by past experience of the lifelike intensity -of dreams, that to be burned to death, even in a dream, would be -very far from being a jest, and was a thing to be avoided, by any -means, fair or foul, that I could contrive. So I said beseechingly: - -"Ah, Clarence, good boy, only friend I've got,--for you _are_ my -friend, aren't you?--don't fail me; help me to devise some way -of escaping from this place!" - -"Now do but hear thyself! Escape? Why, man, the corridors are -in guard and keep of men-at-arms." - -"No doubt, no doubt. But how many, Clarence? Not many, I hope?" - -"Full a score. One may not hope to escape." After a pause ---hesitatingly: "and there be other reasons--and weightier." - -"Other ones? What are they?" - -"Well, they say--oh, but I daren't, indeed daren't!" - -"Why, poor lad, what is the matter? Why do you blench? Why do -you tremble so?" - -"Oh, in sooth, there is need! I do want to tell you, but--" - -"Come, come, be brave, be a man--speak out, there's a good lad!" - -He hesitated, pulled one way by desire, the other way by fear; -then he stole to the door and peeped out, listening; and finally -crept close to me and put his mouth to my ear and told me his -fearful news in a whisper, and with all the cowering apprehension -of one who was venturing upon awful ground and speaking of things -whose very mention might be freighted with death. - -"Merlin, in his malice, has woven a spell about this dungeon, and -there bides not the man in these kingdoms that would be desperate -enough to essay to cross its lines with you! Now God pity me, -I have told it! Ah, be kind to me, be merciful to a poor boy who -means thee well; for an thou betray me I am lost!" - -I laughed the only really refreshing laugh I had had for some time; -and shouted: - -"Merlin has wrought a spell! _Merlin_, forsooth! That cheap old -humbug, that maundering old ass? Bosh, pure bosh, the silliest bosh -in the world! Why, it does seem to me that of all the childish, -idiotic, chuckle-headed, chicken-livered superstitions that ev ---oh, damn Merlin!" - -But Clarence had slumped to his knees before I had half finished, -and he was like to go out of his mind with fright. - -"Oh, beware! These are awful words! Any moment these walls -may crumble upon us if you say such things. Oh call them back -before it is too late!" - -Now this strange exhibition gave me a good idea and set me to -thinking. If everybody about here was so honestly and sincerely -afraid of Merlin's pretended magic as Clarence was, certainly -a superior man like me ought to be shrewd enough to contrive -some way to take advantage of such a state of things. I went -on thinking, and worked out a plan. Then I said: - -"Get up. Pull yourself together; look me in the eye. Do you -know why I laughed?" - -"No--but for our blessed Lady's sake, do it no more." - -"Well, I'll tell you why I laughed. Because I'm a magician myself." - -"Thou!" The boy recoiled a step, and caught his breath, for -the thing hit him rather sudden; but the aspect which he took -on was very, very respectful. I took quick note of that; it -indicated that a humbug didn't need to have a reputation in this -asylum; people stood ready to take him at his word, without that. -I resumed. - -"I've known Merlin seven hundred years, and he--" - -"Seven hun--" - -"Don't interrupt me. He has died and come alive again thirteen -times, and traveled under a new name every time: Smith, Jones, -Robinson, Jackson, Peters, Haskins, Merlin--a new alias every -time he turns up. I knew him in Egypt three hundred years ago; -I knew him in India five hundred years ago--he is always blethering -around in my way, everywhere I go; he makes me tired. He don't -amount to shucks, as a magician; knows some of the old common -tricks, but has never got beyond the rudiments, and never will. -He is well enough for the provinces--one-night stands and that -sort of thing, you know--but dear me, _he_ oughtn't to set up for -an expert--anyway not where there's a real artist. Now look here, -Clarence, I am going to stand your friend, right along, and in -return you must be mine. I want you to do me a favor. I want -you to get word to the king that I am a magician myself--and the -Supreme Grand High-yu-Muck-amuck and head of the tribe, at that; -and I want him to be made to understand that I am just quietly -arranging a little calamity here that will make the fur fly in these -realms if Sir Kay's project is carried out and any harm comes -to me. Will you get that to the king for me?" - -The poor boy was in such a state that he could hardly answer me. -It was pitiful to see a creature so terrified, so unnerved, so -demoralized. But he promised everything; and on my side he made -me promise over and over again that I would remain his friend, and -never turn against him or cast any enchantments upon him. Then -he worked his way out, staying himself with his hand along the -wall, like a sick person. - -Presently this thought occurred to me: how heedless I have been! -When the boy gets calm, he will wonder why a great magician like me -should have begged a boy like him to help me get out of this place; -he will put this and that together, and will see that I am a humbug. - -I worried over that heedless blunder for an hour, and called myself -a great many hard names, meantime. But finally it occurred to me -all of a sudden that these animals didn't reason; that _they_ never -put this and that together; that all their talk showed that they -didn't know a discrepancy when they saw it. I was at rest, then. - -But as soon as one is at rest, in this world, off he goes on -something else to worry about. It occurred to me that I had made -another blunder: I had sent the boy off to alarm his betters with -a threat--I intending to invent a calamity at my leisure; now -the people who are the readiest and eagerest and willingest to -swallow miracles are the very ones who are hungriest to see you -perform them; suppose I should be called on for a sample? Suppose -I should be asked to name my calamity? Yes, I had made a blunder; -I ought to have invented my calamity first. "What shall I do? -what can I say, to gain a little time?" I was in trouble again; -in the deepest kind of trouble... - -"There's a footstep!--they're coming. If I had only just a moment -to think.... Good, I've got it. I'm all right." - -You see, it was the eclipse. It came into my mind in the nick -of time, how Columbus, or Cortez, or one of those people, played -an eclipse as a saving trump once, on some savages, and I saw my -chance. I could play it myself, now, and it wouldn't be any -plagiarism, either, because I should get it in nearly a thousand -years ahead of those parties. - -Clarence came in, subdued, distressed, and said: - -"I hasted the message to our liege the king, and straightway he -had me to his presence. He was frighted even to the marrow, -and was minded to give order for your instant enlargement, and -that you be clothed in fine raiment and lodged as befitted one so -great; but then came Merlin and spoiled all; for he persuaded -the king that you are mad, and know not whereof you speak; and -said your threat is but foolishness and idle vaporing. They -disputed long, but in the end, Merlin, scoffing, said, 'Wherefore -hath he not _named_ his brave calamity? Verily it is because he -cannot.' This thrust did in a most sudden sort close the king's -mouth, and he could offer naught to turn the argument; and so, -reluctant, and full loth to do you the discourtesy, he yet prayeth -you to consider his perplexed case, as noting how the matter stands, -and name the calamity--if so be you have determined the nature -of it and the time of its coming. Oh, prithee delay not; to delay -at such a time were to double and treble the perils that already -compass thee about. Oh, be thou wise--name the calamity!" - -I allowed silence to accumulate while I got my impressiveness -together, and then said: - -"How long have I been shut up in this hole?" - -"Ye were shut up when yesterday was well spent. It is 9 of -the morning now." - -"No! Then I have slept well, sure enough. Nine in the morning -now! And yet it is the very complexion of midnight, to a shade. -This is the 20th, then?" - -"The 20th--yes." - -"And I am to be burned alive to-morrow." The boy shuddered. - -"At what hour?" - -"At high noon." - -"Now then, I will tell you what to say." I paused, and stood over -that cowering lad a whole minute in awful silence; then, in a voice -deep, measured, charged with doom, I began, and rose by dramatically -graded stages to my colossal climax, which I delivered in as sublime -and noble a way as ever I did such a thing in my life: "Go back -and tell the king that at that hour I will smother the whole world -in the dead blackness of midnight; I will blot out the sun, and he -shall never shine again; the fruits of the earth shall rot for lack -of light and warmth, and the peoples of the earth shall famish -and die, to the last man!" - -I had to carry the boy out myself, he sunk into such a collapse. -I handed him over to the soldiers, and went back. - - - -CHAPTER VI - -THE ECLIPSE - -In the stillness and the darkness, realization soon began to -supplement knowledge. The mere knowledge of a fact is pale; but -when you come to _realize_ your fact, it takes on color. It is -all the difference between hearing of a man being stabbed to -the heart, and seeing it done. In the stillness and the darkness, -the knowledge that I was in deadly danger took to itself deeper -and deeper meaning all the time; a something which was realization -crept inch by inch through my veins and turned me cold. - -But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, -as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there -comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness -along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for -himself, if anything can be done. When my rally came, it came with -a bound. I said to myself that my eclipse would be sure to save me, -and make me the greatest man in the kingdom besides; and straightway -my mercury went up to the top of the tube, and my solicitudes -all vanished. I was as happy a man as there was in the world. -I was even impatient for to-morrow to come, I so wanted to gather -in that great triumph and be the center of all the nation's wonder -and reverence. Besides, in a business way it would be the making -of me; I knew that. - -Meantime there was one thing which had got pushed into the background -of my mind. That was the half-conviction that when the nature -of my proposed calamity should be reported to those superstitious -people, it would have such an effect that they would want to -compromise. So, by and by when I heard footsteps coming, that -thought was recalled to me, and I said to myself, "As sure as -anything, it's the compromise. Well, if it is good, all right, -I will accept; but if it isn't, I mean to stand my ground and play -my hand for all it is worth." - -The door opened, and some men-at-arms appeared. The leader said: - -"The stake is ready. Come!" - -The stake! The strength went out of me, and I almost fell down. -It is hard to get one's breath at such a time, such lumps come into -one's throat, and such gaspings; but as soon as I could speak, I said: - -"But this is a mistake--the execution is to-morrow." - -"Order changed; been set forward a day. Haste thee!" - -I was lost. There was no help for me. I was dazed, stupefied; -I had no command over myself, I only wandered purposely about, -like one out of his mind; so the soldiers took hold of me, and -pulled me along with them, out of the cell and along the maze of -underground corridors, and finally into the fierce glare of daylight -and the upper world. As we stepped into the vast enclosed court -of the castle I got a shock; for the first thing I saw was the stake, -standing in the center, and near it the piled fagots and a monk. -On all four sides of the court the seated multitudes rose rank -above rank, forming sloping terraces that were rich with color. -The king and the queen sat in their thrones, the most conspicuous -figures there, of course. - -To note all this, occupied but a second. The next second Clarence -had slipped from some place of concealment and was pouring news -into my ear, his eyes beaming with triumph and gladness. He said: - -"Tis through _me_ the change was wrought! And main hard have I worked -to do it, too. But when I revealed to them the calamity in store, -and saw how mighty was the terror it did engender, then saw I also -that this was the time to strike! Wherefore I diligently pretended, -unto this and that and the other one, that your power against the sun -could not reach its full until the morrow; and so if any would save -the sun and the world, you must be slain to-day, while your -enchantments are but in the weaving and lack potency. Odsbodikins, -it was but a dull lie, a most indifferent invention, but you should -have seen them seize it and swallow it, in the frenzy of their -fright, as it were salvation sent from heaven; and all the while -was I laughing in my sleeve the one moment, to see them so cheaply -deceived, and glorifying God the next, that He was content to let -the meanest of His creatures be His instrument to the saving of -thy life. Ah how happy has the matter sped! You will not need -to do the sun a _real_ hurt--ah, forget not that, on your soul forget -it not! Only make a little darkness--only the littlest little -darkness, mind, and cease with that. It will be sufficient. They -will see that I spoke falsely,--being ignorant, as they will fancy ---and with the falling of the first shadow of that darkness you -shall see them go mad with fear; and they will set you free and -make you great! Go to thy triumph, now! But remember--ah, good -friend, I implore thee remember my supplication, and do the blessed -sun no hurt. For _my_ sake, thy true friend." - -I choked out some words through my grief and misery; as much as -to say I would spare the sun; for which the lad's eyes paid me back -with such deep and loving gratitude that I had not the heart -to tell him his good-hearted foolishness had ruined me and sent me -to my death. - -As the soldiers assisted me across the court the stillness was -so profound that if I had been blindfold I should have supposed -I was in a solitude instead of walled in by four thousand people. -There was not a movement perceptible in those masses of humanity; -they were as rigid as stone images, and as pale; and dread sat -upon every countenance. This hush continued while I was being -chained to the stake; it still continued while the fagots were -carefully and tediously piled about my ankles, my knees, my thighs, -my body. Then there was a pause, and a deeper hush, if possible, -and a man knelt down at my feet with a blazing torch; the multitude -strained forward, gazing, and parting slightly from their seats -without knowing it; the monk raised his hands above my head, and -his eyes toward the blue sky, and began some words in Latin; in -this attitude he droned on and on, a little while, and then stopped. -I waited two or three moments; then looked up; he was standing -there petrified. With a common impulse the multitude rose slowly -up and stared into the sky. I followed their eyes, as sure as guns, -there was my eclipse beginning! The life went boiling through -my veins; I was a new man! The rim of black spread slowly into -the sun's disk, my heart beat higher and higher, and still the -assemblage and the priest stared into the sky, motionless. I knew -that this gaze would be turned upon me, next. When it was, I was -ready. I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, -with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble -effect. You could _see_ the shudder sweep the mass like a wave. -Two shouts rang out, one close upon the heels of the other: - -"Apply the torch!" - -"I forbid it!" - -The one was from Merlin, the other from the king. Merlin started -from his place--to apply the torch himself, I judged. I said: - -"Stay where you are. If any man moves--even the king--before -I give him leave, I will blast him with thunder, I will consume -him with lightnings!" - -The multitude sank meekly into their seats, and I was just expecting -they would. Merlin hesitated a moment or two, and I was on pins -and needles during that little while. Then he sat down, and I took -a good breath; for I knew I was master of the situation now. -The king said: - -"Be merciful, fair sir, and essay no further in this perilous matter, -lest disaster follow. It was reported to us that your powers could -not attain unto their full strength until the morrow; but--" - -"Your Majesty thinks the report may have been a lie? It _was_ a lie." - -That made an immense effect; up went appealing hands everywhere, -and the king was assailed with a storm of supplications that -I might be bought off at any price, and the calamity stayed. -The king was eager to comply. He said: - -"Name any terms, reverend sir, even to the halving of my kingdom; -but banish this calamity, spare the sun!" - -My fortune was made. I would have taken him up in a minute, but -I couldn't stop an eclipse; the thing was out of the question. So -I asked time to consider. The king said: - -"How long--ah, how long, good sir? Be merciful; look, it groweth -darker, moment by moment. Prithee how long?" - -"Not long. Half an hour--maybe an hour." - -There were a thousand pathetic protests, but I couldn't shorten up -any, for I couldn't remember how long a total eclipse lasts. I was -in a puzzled condition, anyway, and wanted to think. Something -was wrong about that eclipse, and the fact was very unsettling. -If this wasn't the one I was after, how was I to tell whether this -was the sixth century, or nothing but a dream? Dear me, if I could -only prove it was the latter! Here was a glad new hope. If the boy -was right about the date, and this was surely the 20th, it _wasn't_ -the sixth century. I reached for the monk's sleeve, in considerable -excitement, and asked him what day of the month it was. - -Hang him, he said it was the _twenty-first_! It made me turn cold -to hear him. I begged him not to make any mistake about it; but -he was sure; he knew it was the 21st. So, that feather-headed -boy had botched things again! The time of the day was right -for the eclipse; I had seen that for myself, in the beginning, -by the dial that was near by. Yes, I was in King Arthur's court, -and I might as well make the most out of it I could. - -The darkness was steadily growing, the people becoming more and -more distressed. I now said: - -"I have reflected, Sir King. For a lesson, I will let this darkness -proceed, and spread night in the world; but whether I blot out -the sun for good, or restore it, shall rest with you. These are -the terms, to wit: You shall remain king over all your dominions, -and receive all the glories and honors that belong to the kingship; -but you shall appoint me your perpetual minister and executive, -and give me for my services one per cent of such actual increase -of revenue over and above its present amount as I may succeed -in creating for the state. If I can't live on that, I sha'n't ask -anybody to give me a lift. Is it satisfactory?" - -There was a prodigious roar of applause, and out of the midst -of it the king's voice rose, saying: - -"Away with his bonds, and set him free! and do him homage, high -and low, rich and poor, for he is become the king's right hand, -is clothed with power and authority, and his seat is upon the highest -step of the throne! Now sweep away this creeping night, and bring -the light and cheer again, that all the world may bless thee." - -But I said: - -"That a common man should be shamed before the world, is nothing; -but it were dishonor to the _king_ if any that saw his minister naked -should not also see him delivered from his shame. If I might ask -that my clothes be brought again--" - -"They are not meet," the king broke in. "Fetch raiment of another -sort; clothe him like a prince!" - -My idea worked. I wanted to keep things as they were till the -eclipse was total, otherwise they would be trying again to get -me to dismiss the darkness, and of course I couldn't do it. Sending -for the clothes gained some delay, but not enough. So I had to make -another excuse. I said it would be but natural if the king should -change his mind and repent to some extent of what he had done -under excitement; therefore I would let the darkness grow a while, -and if at the end of a reasonable time the king had kept his mind -the same, the darkness should be dismissed. Neither the king nor -anybody else was satisfied with that arrangement, but I had -to stick to my point. - -It grew darker and darker and blacker and blacker, while I struggled -with those awkward sixth-century clothes. It got to be pitch dark, -at last, and the multitude groaned with horror to feel the cold -uncanny night breezes fan through the place and see the stars -come out and twinkle in the sky. At last the eclipse was total, -and I was very glad of it, but everybody else was in misery; which -was quite natural. I said: - -"The king, by his silence, still stands to the terms." Then -I lifted up my hands--stood just so a moment--then I said, with -the most awful solemnity: "Let the enchantment dissolve and -pass harmless away!" - -There was no response, for a moment, in that deep darkness and -that graveyard hush. But when the silver rim of the sun pushed -itself out, a moment or two later, the assemblage broke loose with -a vast shout and came pouring down like a deluge to smother me -with blessings and gratitude; and Clarence was not the last of -the wash, to be sure. - - - -CHAPTER VII - -MERLIN'S TOWER - -Inasmuch as I was now the second personage in the Kingdom, as far -as political power and authority were concerned, much was made -of me. My raiment was of silks and velvets and cloth of gold, -and by consequence was very showy, also uncomfortable. But habit -would soon reconcile me to my clothes; I was aware of that. I was -given the choicest suite of apartments in the castle, after -the king's. They were aglow with loud-colored silken hangings, -but the stone floors had nothing but rushes on them for a carpet, -and they were misfit rushes at that, being not all of one breed. -As for conveniences, properly speaking, there weren't any. I mean -_little_ conveniences; it is the little conveniences that make -the real comfort of life. The big oaken chairs, graced with rude -carvings, were well enough, but that was the stopping place. -There was no soap, no matches, no looking-glass--except a metal -one, about as powerful as a pail of water. And not a chromo. -I had been used to chromos for years, and I saw now that without -my suspecting it a passion for art had got worked into the fabric -of my being, and was become a part of me. It made me homesick -to look around over this proud and gaudy but heartless barrenness -and remember that in our house in East Hartford, all unpretending -as it was, you couldn't go into a room but you would find an -insurance-chromo, or at least a three-color God-Bless-Our-Home -over the door; and in the parlor we had nine. But here, even in -my grand room of state, there wasn't anything in the nature of -a picture except a thing the size of a bedquilt, which was either -woven or knitted (it had darned places in it), and nothing in it -was the right color or the right shape; and as for proportions, -even Raphael himself couldn't have botched them more formidably, -after all his practice on those nightmares they call his "celebrated -Hampton Court cartoons." Raphael was a bird. We had several -of his chromos; one was his "Miraculous Draught of Fishes," where -he puts in a miracle of his own--puts three men into a canoe which -wouldn't have held a dog without upsetting. I always admired -to study R.'s art, it was so fresh and unconventional. - -There wasn't even a bell or a speaking-tube in the castle. I had -a great many servants, and those that were on duty lolled in the -anteroom; and when I wanted one of them I had to go and call for him. -There was no gas, there were no candles; a bronze dish half full -of boarding-house butter with a blazing rag floating in it was -the thing that produced what was regarded as light. A lot of -these hung along the walls and modified the dark, just toned it -down enough to make it dismal. If you went out at night, your -servants carried torches. There were no books, pens, paper or -ink, and no glass in the openings they believed to be windows. -It is a little thing--glass is--until it is absent, then it becomes -a big thing. But perhaps the worst of all was, that there wasn't -any sugar, coffee, tea, or tobacco. I saw that I was just another -Robinson Crusoe cast away on an uninhabited island, with no society -but some more or less tame animals, and if I wanted to make life -bearable I must do as he did--invent, contrive, create, reorganize -things; set brain and hand to work, and keep them busy. Well, -that was in my line. - -One thing troubled me along at first--the immense interest which -people took in me. Apparently the whole nation wanted a look -at me. It soon transpired that the eclipse had scared the British -world almost to death; that while it lasted the whole country, -from one end to the other, was in a pitiable state of panic, and -the churches, hermitages, and monkeries overflowed with praying -and weeping poor creatures who thought the end of the world was -come. Then had followed the news that the producer of this awful -event was a stranger, a mighty magician at Arthur's court; that he -could have blown out the sun like a candle, and was just going -to do it when his mercy was purchased, and he then dissolved -his enchantments, and was now recognized and honored as the man -who had by his unaided might saved the globe from destruction and -its peoples from extinction. Now if you consider that everybody -believed that, and not only believed it, but never even dreamed -of doubting it, you will easily understand that there was not -a person in all Britain that would not have walked fifty miles -to get a sight of me. Of course I was all the talk--all other -subjects were dropped; even the king became suddenly a person of -minor interest and notoriety. Within twenty-four hours the -delegations began to arrive, and from that time onward for a fortnight -they kept coming. The village was crowded, and all the countryside. -I had to go out a dozen times a day and show myself to these -reverent and awe-stricken multitudes. It came to be a great burden, -as to time and trouble, but of course it was at the same time -compensatingly agreeable to be so celebrated and such a center -of homage. It turned Brer Merlin green with envy and spite, which -was a great satisfaction to me. But there was one thing I couldn't -understand--nobody had asked for an autograph. I spoke to Clarence -about it. By George! I had to explain to him what it was. Then -he said nobody in the country could read or write but a few dozen -priests. Land! think of that. - -There was another thing that troubled me a little. Those multitudes -presently began to agitate for another miracle. That was natural. -To be able to carry back to their far homes the boast that they -had seen the man who could command the sun, riding in the heavens, -and be obeyed, would make them great in the eyes of their neighbors, -and envied by them all; but to be able to also say they had seen -him work a miracle themselves--why, people would come a distance -to see _them_. The pressure got to be pretty strong. There was -going to be an eclipse of the moon, and I knew the date and hour, -but it was too far away. Two years. I would have given a good -deal for license to hurry it up and use it now when there was -a big market for it. It seemed a great pity to have it wasted so, -and come lagging along at a time when a body wouldn't have any -use for it, as like as not. If it had been booked for only a month -away, I could have sold it short; but, as matters stood, I couldn't -seem to cipher out any way to make it do me any good, so I gave up -trying. Next, Clarence found that old Merlin was making himself -busy on the sly among those people. He was spreading a report that -I was a humbug, and that the reason I didn't accommodate the people -with a miracle was because I couldn't. I saw that I must do -something. I presently thought out a plan. - -By my authority as executive I threw Merlin into prison--the same -cell I had occupied myself. Then I gave public notice by herald -and trumpet that I should be busy with affairs of state for -a fortnight, but about the end of that time I would take a moment's -leisure and blow up Merlin's stone tower by fires from heaven; -in the meantime, whoso listened to evil reports about me, let him -beware. Furthermore, I would perform but this one miracle at -this time, and no more; if it failed to satisfy and any murmured, -I would turn the murmurers into horses, and make them useful. -Quiet ensued. - -I took Clarence into my confidence, to a certain degree, and we -went to work privately. I told him that this was a sort of miracle -that required a trifle of preparation, and that it would be sudden -death to ever talk about these preparations to anybody. That made -his mouth safe enough. Clandestinely we made a few bushels of -first-rate blasting powder, and I superintended my armorers while -they constructed a lightning-rod and some wires. This old stone -tower was very massive--and rather ruinous, too, for it was Roman, -and four hundred years old. Yes, and handsome, after a rude -fashion, and clothed with ivy from base to summit, as with a shirt -of scale mail. It stood on a lonely eminence, in good view from -the castle, and about half a mile away. - -Working by night, we stowed the powder in the tower--dug stones -out, on the inside, and buried the powder in the walls themselves, -which were fifteen feet thick at the base. We put in a peck -at a time, in a dozen places. We could have blown up the Tower -of London with these charges. When the thirteenth night was come -we put up our lightning-rod, bedded it in one of the batches of -powder, and ran wires from it to the other batches. Everybody -had shunned that locality from the day of my proclamation, but -on the morning of the fourteenth I thought best to warn the people, -through the heralds, to keep clear away--a quarter of a mile away. -Then added, by command, that at some time during the twenty-four -hours I would consummate the miracle, but would first give a brief -notice; by flags on the castle towers if in the daytime, by -torch-baskets in the same places if at night. - -Thunder-showers had been tolerably frequent of late, and I was -not much afraid of a failure; still, I shouldn't have cared for -a delay of a day or two; I should have explained that I was busy -with affairs of state yet, and the people must wait. - -Of course, we had a blazing sunny day--almost the first one without -a cloud for three weeks; things always happen so. I kept secluded, -and watched the weather. Clarence dropped in from time to time -and said the public excitement was growing and growing all the -time, and the whole country filling up with human masses as far -as one could see from the battlements. At last the wind sprang up -and a cloud appeared--in the right quarter, too, and just at -nightfall. For a little while I watched that distant cloud spread -and blacken, then I judged it was time for me to appear. I ordered -the torch-baskets to be lit, and Merlin liberated and sent to me. -A quarter of an hour later I ascended the parapet and there found -the king and the court assembled and gazing off in the darkness -toward Merlin's Tower. Already the darkness was so heavy that -one could not see far; these people and the old turrets, being -partly in deep shadow and partly in the red glow from the great -torch-baskets overhead, made a good deal of a picture. - -Merlin arrived in a gloomy mood. I said: - -"You wanted to burn me alive when I had not done you any harm, -and latterly you have been trying to injure my professional -reputation. Therefore I am going to call down fire and blow up -your tower, but it is only fair to give you a chance; now if you -think you can break my enchantments and ward off the fires, step -to the bat, it's your innings." - -"I can, fair sir, and I will. Doubt it not." - -He drew an imaginary circle on the stones of the roof, and burnt -a pinch of powder in it, which sent up a small cloud of aromatic -smoke, whereat everybody fell back and began to cross themselves -and get uncomfortable. Then he began to mutter and make passes -in the air with his hands. He worked himself up slowly and -gradually into a sort of frenzy, and got to thrashing around with -his arms like the sails of a windmill. By this time the storm had -about reached us; the gusts of wind were flaring the torches and -making the shadows swash about, the first heavy drops of rain -were falling, the world abroad was black as pitch, the lightning -began to wink fitfully. Of course, my rod would be loading itself -now. In fact, things were imminent. So I said: - -"You have had time enough. I have given you every advantage, -and not interfered. It is plain your magic is weak. It is only -fair that I begin now." - -I made about three passes in the air, and then there was an awful -crash and that old tower leaped into the sky in chunks, along -with a vast volcanic fountain of fire that turned night to noonday, -and showed a thousand acres of human beings groveling on the ground -in a general collapse of consternation. Well, it rained mortar and -masonry the rest of the week. This was the report; but probably -the facts would have modified it. - -It was an effective miracle. The great bothersome temporary -population vanished. There were a good many thousand tracks -in the mud the next morning, but they were all outward bound. -If I had advertised another miracle I couldn't have raised an -audience with a sheriff. - -Merlin's stock was flat. The king wanted to stop his wages; he -even wanted to banish him, but I interfered. I said he would be -useful to work the weather, and attend to small matters like that, -and I would give him a lift now and then when his poor little -parlor-magic soured on him. There wasn't a rag of his tower left, -but I had the government rebuild it for him, and advised him -to take boarders; but he was too high-toned for that. And as for -being grateful, he never even said thank you. He was a rather -hard lot, take him how you might; but then you couldn't fairly -expect a man to be sweet that had been set back so. - - - -CHAPTER VIII - -THE BOSS - -To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have -the on-looking world consent to it is a finer. The tower episode -solidified my power, and made it impregnable. If any were perchance -disposed to be jealous and critical before that, they experienced -a change of heart, now. There was not any one in the kingdom -who would have considered it good judgment to meddle with my matters. - -I was fast getting adjusted to my situation and circumstances. -For a time, I used to wake up, mornings, and smile at my "dream," -and listen for the Colt's factory whistle; but that sort of thing -played itself out, gradually, and at last I was fully able to realize -that I was actually living in the sixth century, and in Arthur's -court, not a lunatic asylum. After that, I was just as much -at home in that century as I could have been in any other; and -as for preference, I wouldn't have traded it for the twentieth. -Look at the opportunities here for a man of knowledge, brains, -pluck, and enterprise to sail in and grow up with the country. -The grandest field that ever was; and all my own; not a competitor; -not a man who wasn't a baby to me in acquirements and capacities; -whereas, what would I amount to in the twentieth century? I should -be foreman of a factory, that is about all; and could drag a seine -down street any day and catch a hundred better men than myself. - -What a jump I had made! I couldn't keep from thinking about it, -and contemplating it, just as one does who has struck oil. There -was nothing back of me that could approach it, unless it might be -Joseph's case; and Joseph's only approached it, it didn't equal -it, quite. For it stands to reason that as Joseph's splendid -financial ingenuities advantaged nobody but the king, the general -public must have regarded him with a good deal of disfavor, whereas -I had done my entire public a kindness in sparing the sun, and was -popular by reason of it. - -I was no shadow of a king; I was the substance; the king himself -was the shadow. My power was colossal; and it was not a mere -name, as such things have generally been, it was the genuine -article. I stood here, at the very spring and source of the second -great period of the world's history; and could see the trickling -stream of that history gather and deepen and broaden, and roll -its mighty tides down the far centuries; and I could note the -upspringing of adventurers like myself in the shelter of its long -array of thrones: De Montforts, Gavestons, Mortimers, Villierses; -the war-making, campaign-directing wantons of France, and Charles -the Second's scepter-wielding drabs; but nowhere in the procession -was my full-sized fellow visible. I was a Unique; and glad to know -that that fact could not be dislodged or challenged for thirteen -centuries and a half, for sure. Yes, in power I was equal to -the king. At the same time there was another power that was -a trifle stronger than both of us put together. That was the Church. -I do not wish to disguise that fact. I couldn't, if I wanted to. -But never mind about that, now; it will show up, in its proper -place, later on. It didn't cause me any trouble in the beginning ---at least any of consequence. - -Well, it was a curious country, and full of interest. And the -people! They were the quaintest and simplest and trustingest race; -why, they were nothing but rabbits. It was pitiful for a person -born in a wholesome free atmosphere to listen to their humble -and hearty outpourings of loyalty toward their king and Church -and nobility; as if they had any more occasion to love and honor -king and Church and noble than a slave has to love and honor -the lash, or a dog has to love and honor the stranger that kicks him! -Why, dear me, _any_ kind of royalty, howsoever modified, _any_ kind -of aristocracy, howsoever pruned, is rightly an insult; but if you -are born and brought up under that sort of arrangement you probably -never find it out for yourself, and don't believe it when somebody -else tells you. It is enough to make a body ashamed of his race -to think of the sort of froth that has always occupied its thrones -without shadow of right or reason, and the seventh-rate people -that have always figured as its aristocracies--a company of monarchs -and nobles who, as a rule, would have achieved only poverty and -obscurity if left, like their betters, to their own exertions. - -The most of King Arthur's British nation were slaves, pure and -simple, and bore that name, and wore the iron collar on their -necks; and the rest were slaves in fact, but without the name; -they imagined themselves men and freemen, and called themselves -so. The truth was, the nation as a body was in the world for one -object, and one only: to grovel before king and Church and noble; -to slave for them, sweat blood for them, starve that they might -be fed, work that they might play, drink misery to the dregs that -they might be happy, go naked that they might wear silks and -jewels, pay taxes that they might be spared from paying them, -be familiar all their lives with the degrading language and postures -of adulation that they might walk in pride and think themselves -the gods of this world. And for all this, the thanks they got were -cuffs and contempt; and so poor-spirited were they that they took -even this sort of attention as an honor. - -Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe -and examine. I had mine, the king and his people had theirs. -In both cases they flowed in ruts worn deep by time and habit, -and the man who should have proposed to divert them by reason -and argument would have had a long contract on his hands. For -instance, those people had inherited the idea that all men without -title and a long pedigree, whether they had great natural gifts -and acquirements or hadn't, were creatures of no more consideration -than so many animals, bugs, insects; whereas I had inherited the idea -that human daws who can consent to masquerade in the peacock-shams -of inherited dignities and unearned titles, are of no good but -to be laughed at. The way I was looked upon was odd, but it was -natural. You know how the keeper and the public regard the elephant -in the menagerie: well, that is the idea. They are full of -admiration of his vast bulk and his prodigious strength; they -speak with pride of the fact that he can do a hundred marvels -which are far and away beyond their own powers; and they speak -with the same pride of the fact that in his wrath he is able -to drive a thousand men before him. But does that make him one -of _them_? No; the raggedest tramp in the pit would smile at -the idea. He couldn't comprehend it; couldn't take it in; couldn't -in any remote way conceive of it. Well, to the king, the nobles, -and all the nation, down to the very slaves and tramps, I was -just that kind of an elephant, and nothing more. I was admired, -also feared; but it was as an animal is admired and feared. -The animal is not reverenced, neither was I; I was not even -respected. I had no pedigree, no inherited title; so in the king's -and nobles' eyes I was mere dirt; the people regarded me with -wonder and awe, but there was no reverence mixed with it; through -the force of inherited ideas they were not able to conceive of -anything being entitled to that except pedigree and lordship. -There you see the hand of that awful power, the Roman Catholic -Church. In two or three little centuries it had converted a nation -of men to a nation of worms. Before the day of the Church's -supremacy in the world, men were men, and held their heads up, -and had a man's pride and spirit and independence; and what -of greatness and position a person got, he got mainly by achievement, -not by birth. But then the Church came to the front, with an axe -to grind; and she was wise, subtle, and knew more than one way -to skin a cat--or a nation; she invented "divine right of kings," -and propped it all around, brick by brick, with the Beatitudes ---wrenching them from their good purpose to make them fortify -an evil one; she preached (to the commoner) humility, obedience -to superiors, the beauty of self-sacrifice; she preached (to the -commoner) meekness under insult; preached (still to the commoner, -always to the commoner) patience, meanness of spirit, non-resistance -under oppression; and she introduced heritable ranks and -aristocracies, and taught all the Christian populations of the earth -to bow down to them and worship them. Even down to my birth-century -that poison was still in the blood of Christendom, and the best -of English commoners was still content to see his inferiors -impudently continuing to hold a number of positions, such as -lordships and the throne, to which the grotesque laws of his country -did not allow him to aspire; in fact, he was not merely contented -with this strange condition of things, he was even able to persuade -himself that he was proud of it. It seems to show that there isn't -anything you can't stand, if you are only born and bred to it. -Of course that taint, that reverence for rank and title, had been -in our American blood, too--I know that; but when I left America -it had disappeared--at least to all intents and purposes. The -remnant of it was restricted to the dudes and dudesses. When -a disease has worked its way down to that level, it may fairly -be said to be out of the system. - -But to return to my anomalous position in King Arthur's kingdom. -Here I was, a giant among pigmies, a man among children, a master -intelligence among intellectual moles: by all rational measurement -the one and only actually great man in that whole British world; -and yet there and then, just as in the remote England of my -birth-time, the sheep-witted earl who could claim long descent -from a king's leman, acquired at second-hand from the slums of -London, was a better man than I was. Such a personage was fawned -upon in Arthur's realm and reverently looked up to by everybody, -even though his dispositions were as mean as his intelligence, -and his morals as base as his lineage. There were times when -_he_ could sit down in the king's presence, but I couldn't. I could -have got a title easily enough, and that would have raised me -a large step in everybody's eyes; even in the king's, the giver -of it. But I didn't ask for it; and I declined it when it was -offered. I couldn't have enjoyed such a thing with my notions; -and it wouldn't have been fair, anyway, because as far back as -I could go, our tribe had always been short of the bar sinister. -I couldn't have felt really and satisfactorily fine and proud -and set-up over any title except one that should come from the nation -itself, the only legitimate source; and such an one I hoped to win; -and in the course of years of honest and honorable endeavor, I did -win it and did wear it with a high and clean pride. This title -fell casually from the lips of a blacksmith, one day, in a village, -was caught up as a happy thought and tossed from mouth to mouth -with a laugh and an affirmative vote; in ten days it had swept -the kingdom, and was become as familiar as the king's name. I was -never known by any other designation afterward, whether in the -nation's talk or in grave debate upon matters of state at the -council-board of the sovereign. This title, translated into modern -speech, would be THE BOSS. Elected by the nation. That suited me. -And it was a pretty high title. There were very few THE'S, and -I was one of them. If you spoke of the duke, or the earl, or -the bishop, how could anybody tell which one you meant? But if -you spoke of The King or The Queen or The Boss, it was different. - -Well, I liked the king, and as king I respected him--respected -the office; at least respected it as much as I was capable of -respecting any unearned supremacy; but as MEN I looked down upon -him and his nobles--privately. And he and they liked me, and -respected my office; but as an animal, without birth or sham title, -they looked down upon me--and were not particularly private about it, -either. I didn't charge for my opinion about them, and they didn't -charge for their opinion about me: the account was square, the -books balanced, everybody was satisfied. - - - -CHAPTER IX - -THE TOURNAMENT - -They were always having grand tournaments there at Camelot; and -very stirring and picturesque and ridiculous human bull-fights -they were, too, but just a little wearisome to the practical mind. -However, I was generally on hand--for two reasons: a man must -not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and his -community have at heart if he would be liked--especially as -a statesman; and both as business man and statesman I wanted -to study the tournament and see if I couldn't invent an improvement -on it. That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first -official thing I did, in my administration--and it was on the very -first day of it, too--was to start a patent office; for I knew -that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was -just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways. - -Things ran along, a tournament nearly every week; and now and then -the boys used to want me to take a hand--I mean Sir Launcelot and -the rest--but I said I would by and by; no hurry yet, and too much -government machinery to oil up and set to rights and start a-going. - -We had one tournament which was continued from day to day during -more than a week, and as many as five hundred knights took part -in it, from first to last. They were weeks gathering. They came -on horseback from everywhere; from the very ends of the country, -and even from beyond the sea; and many brought ladies, and all -brought squires and troops of servants. It was a most gaudy and -gorgeous crowd, as to costumery, and very characteristic of the -country and the time, in the way of high animal spirits, innocent -indecencies of language, and happy-hearted indifference to morals. -It was fight or look on, all day and every day; and sing, gamble, -dance, carouse half the night every night. They had a most noble -good time. You never saw such people. Those banks of beautiful -ladies, shining in their barbaric splendors, would see a knight -sprawl from his horse in the lists with a lanceshaft the thickness -of your ankle clean through him and the blood spouting, and instead -of fainting they would clap their hands and crowd each other for a -better view; only sometimes one would dive into her handkerchief, -and look ostentatiously broken-hearted, and then you could lay -two to one that there was a scandal there somewhere and she was -afraid the public hadn't found it out. - -The noise at night would have been annoying to me ordinarily, but -I didn't mind it in the present circumstances, because it kept me -from hearing the quacks detaching legs and arms from the day's -cripples. They ruined an uncommon good old cross-cut saw for me, -and broke the saw-buck, too, but I let it pass. And as for my -axe--well, I made up my mind that the next time I lent an axe -to a surgeon I would pick my century. - -I not only watched this tournament from day to day, but detailed -an intelligent priest from my Department of Public Morals and -Agriculture, and ordered him to report it; for it was my purpose -by and by, when I should have gotten the people along far enough, -to start a newspaper. The first thing you want in a new country, -is a patent office; then work up your school system; and after that, -out with your paper. A newspaper has its faults, and plenty of them, -but no matter, it's hark from the tomb for a dead nation, and don't -you forget it. You can't resurrect a dead nation without it; there -isn't any way. So I wanted to sample things, and be finding out -what sort of reporter-material I might be able to rake together out -of the sixth century when I should come to need it. - -Well, the priest did very well, considering. He got in all -the details, and that is a good thing in a local item: you see, -he had kept books for the undertaker-department of his church -when he was younger, and there, you know, the money's in the details; -the more details, the more swag: bearers, mutes, candles, prayers ---everything counts; and if the bereaved don't buy prayers enough -you mark up your candles with a forked pencil, and your bill -shows up all right. And he had a good knack at getting in the -complimentary thing here and there about a knight that was likely -to advertise--no, I mean a knight that had influence; and he also -had a neat gift of exaggeration, for in his time he had kept door -for a pious hermit who lived in a sty and worked miracles. - -Of course this novice's report lacked whoop and crash and lurid -description, and therefore wanted the true ring; but its antique -wording was quaint and sweet and simple, and full of the fragrances -and flavors of the time, and these little merits made up in a measure -for its more important lacks. Here is an extract from it: - - Then Sir Brian de les Isles and Grummore Grummorsum, - knights of the castle, encountered with Sir Aglovale and - Sir Tor, and Sir Tor smote down Sir Grummore Grummorsum - to the earth. Then came Sir Carados of the dolorous - tower, and Sir Turquine, knights of the castle, and - there encountered with them Sir Percivale de Galis - and Sir Lamorak de Galis, that were two brethren, and - there encountered Sir Percivale with Sir Carados, and - either brake their spears unto their hands, and then - Sir Turquine with Sir Lamorak, and either of them smote - down other, horse and all, to the earth, and either - parties rescued other and horsed them again. And Sir - Arnold, and Sir Gauter, knights of the castle, - encountered with Sir Brandiles and Sir Kay, and these - four knights encountered mightily, and brake their - spears to their hands. Then came Sir Pertolope from - the castle, and there encountered with him Sir Lionel, - and there Sir Pertolope the green knight smote down Sir - Lionel, brother to Sir Launcelot. All this was marked - by noble heralds, who bare him best, and their names. - Then Sir Bleobaris brake his spear upon Sir Gareth, - but of that stroke Sir Bleobaris fell to the earth. - When Sir Galihodin saw that, he bad Sir Gareth keep him, - and Sir Gareth smote him to the earth. Then Sir Galihud - gat a spear to avenge his brother, and in the same wise - Sir Gareth served him, and Sir Dinadan and his brother - La Cote Male Taile, and Sir Sagramore le Disirous, and - Sir Dodinas le Savage; all these he bare down with one - spear. When King Aswisance of Ireland saw Sir Gareth - fare so he marvelled what he might be, that one time - seemed green, and another time, at his again coming, - he seemed blue. And thus at every course that he rode - to and fro he changed his color, so that there might - neither king nor knight have ready cognizance of him. - Then Sir Agwisance the King of Ireland encountered - with Sir Gareth, and there Sir Gareth smote him from - his horse, saddle and all. And then came King Carados - of Scotland, and Sir Gareth smote him down horse and - man. And in the same wise he served King Uriens of the - land of Gore. And then there came in Sir Bagdemagus, - and Sir Gareth smote him down horse and man to the - earth. And Bagdemagus's son Meliganus brake a spear - upon Sir Gareth mightily and knightly. And then Sir - Galahault the noble prince cried on high, Knight with - the many colors, well hast thou justed; now make thee - ready that I may just with thee. Sir Gareth heard him, - and he gat a great spear, and so they encountered - together, and there the prince brake his spear; but Sir - Gareth smote him upon the left side of the helm, that - he reeled here and there, and he had fallen down had not - his men recovered him. Truly, said King Arthur, that - knight with the many colors is a good knight. Wherefore - the king called unto him Sir Launcelot, and prayed him - to encounter with that knight. Sir, said Launcelot, I - may as well find in my heart for to forbear him at - this time, for he hath had travail enough this day, and - when a good knight doth so well upon some day, it is - no good knight's part to let him of his worship, and, - namely, when he seeth a knight hath done so great - labour; for peradventure, said Sir Launcelot, his - quarrel is here this day, and peradventure he is best - beloved with this lady of all that be here, for I see - well he paineth himself and enforceth him to do great - deeds, and therefore, said Sir Launcelot, as for me, - this day he shall have the honour; though it lay in my - power to put him from it, I would not. - -There was an unpleasant little episode that day, which for reasons -of state I struck out of my priest's report. You will have noticed -that Garry was doing some great fighting in the engagement. When -I say Garry I mean Sir Gareth. Garry was my private pet name -for him; it suggests that I had a deep affection for him, and that -was the case. But it was a private pet name only, and never spoken -aloud to any one, much less to him; being a noble, he would not -have endured a familiarity like that from me. Well, to proceed: -I sat in the private box set apart for me as the king's minister. -While Sir Dinadan was waiting for his turn to enter the lists, -he came in there and sat down and began to talk; for he was always -making up to me, because I was a stranger and he liked to have -a fresh market for his jokes, the most of them having reached that -stage of wear where the teller has to do the laughing himself while -the other person looks sick. I had always responded to his efforts -as well as I could, and felt a very deep and real kindness for him, -too, for the reason that if by malice of fate he knew the one -particular anecdote which I had heard oftenest and had most hated -and most loathed all my life, he had at least spared it me. It was -one which I had heard attributed to every humorous person who -had ever stood on American soil, from Columbus down to Artemus Ward. -It was about a humorous lecturer who flooded an ignorant audience -with the killingest jokes for an hour and never got a laugh; and -then when he was leaving, some gray simpletons wrung him gratefully -by the hand and said it had been the funniest thing they had ever -heard, and "it was all they could do to keep from laughin' right -out in meetin'." That anecdote never saw the day that it was -worth the telling; and yet I had sat under the telling of it -hundreds and thousands and millions and billions of times, and -cried and cursed all the way through. Then who can hope to know -what my feelings were, to hear this armor-plated ass start in on -it again, in the murky twilight of tradition, before the dawn of -history, while even Lactantius might be referred to as "the late -Lactantius," and the Crusades wouldn't be born for five hundred -years yet? Just as he finished, the call-boy came; so, haw-hawing -like a demon, he went rattling and clanking out like a crate of -loose castings, and I knew nothing more. It was some minutes -before I came to, and then I opened my eyes just in time to see -Sir Gareth fetch him an awful welt, and I unconsciously out with -the prayer, "I hope to gracious he's killed!" But by ill-luck, -before I had got half through with the words, Sir Gareth crashed -into Sir Sagramor le Desirous and sent him thundering over his -horse's crupper, and Sir Sagramor caught my remark and thought -I meant it for _him_. - -Well, whenever one of those people got a thing into his head, -there was no getting it out again. I knew that, so I saved my -breath, and offered no explanations. As soon as Sir Sagramor -got well, he notified me that there was a little account to settle -between us, and he named a day three or four years in the future; -place of settlement, the lists where the offense had been given. -I said I would be ready when he got back. You see, he was going -for the Holy Grail. The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail -now and then. It was a several years' cruise. They always put in -the long absence snooping around, in the most conscientious way, -though none of them had any idea where the Holy Grail really was, -and I don't think any of them actually expected to find it, or -would have known what to do with it if he _had_ run across it. -You see, it was just the Northwest Passage of that day, as you may -say; that was all. Every year expeditions went out holy grailing, -and next year relief expeditions went out to hunt for _them_. There -was worlds of reputation in it, but no money. Why, they actually -wanted _me_ to put in! Well, I should smile. - - - -CHAPTER X - -BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION - -The Round Table soon heard of the challenge, and of course it was -a good deal discussed, for such things interested the boys. -The king thought I ought now to set forth in quest of adventures, -so that I might gain renown and be the more worthy to meet -Sir Sagramor when the several years should have rolled away. -I excused myself for the present; I said it would take me three -or four years yet to get things well fixed up and going smoothly; -then I should be ready; all the chances were that at the end of -that time Sir Sagramor would still be out grailing, so no valuable -time would be lost by the postponement; I should then have been -in office six or seven years, and I believed my system and machinery -would be so well developed that I could take a holiday without -its working any harm. - -I was pretty well satisfied with what I had already accomplished. -In various quiet nooks and corners I had the beginnings of all -sorts of industries under way--nuclei of future vast factories, -the iron and steel missionaries of my future civilization. In these -were gathered together the brightest young minds I could find, -and I kept agents out raking the country for more, all the time. -I was training a crowd of ignorant folk into experts--experts -in every sort of handiwork and scientific calling. These nurseries -of mine went smoothly and privately along undisturbed in their -obscure country retreats, for nobody was allowed to come into their -precincts without a special permit--for I was afraid of the Church. - -I had started a teacher-factory and a lot of Sunday-schools the -first thing; as a result, I now had an admirable system of graded -schools in full blast in those places, and also a complete variety -of Protestant congregations all in a prosperous and growing -condition. Everybody could be any kind of a Christian he wanted -to; there was perfect freedom in that matter. But I confined public -religious teaching to the churches and the Sunday-schools, permitting -nothing of it in my other educational buildings. I could have -given my own sect the preference and made everybody a Presbyterian -without any trouble, but that would have been to affront a law -of human nature: spiritual wants and instincts are as various in -the human family as are physical appetites, complexions, and -features, and a man is only at his best, morally, when he is -equipped with the religious garment whose color and shape and -size most nicely accommodate themselves to the spiritual complexion, -angularities, and stature of the individual who wears it; and, -besides, I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, -the mightiest conceivable, and then when it by and by gets into -selfish hands, as it is always bound to do, it means death to -human liberty and paralysis to human thought. - -All mines were royal property, and there were a good many of them. -They had formerly been worked as savages always work mines--holes -grubbed in the earth and the mineral brought up in sacks of hide by -hand, at the rate of a ton a day; but I had begun to put the mining -on a scientific basis as early as I could. - -Yes, I had made pretty handsome progress when Sir Sagramor's -challenge struck me. - -Four years rolled by--and then! Well, you would never imagine -it in the world. Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in -safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect -government. An earthly despotism would be the absolutely perfect -earthly government, if the conditions were the same, namely, the -despot the perfectest individual of the human race, and his lease -of life perpetual. But as a perishable perfect man must die, and -leave his despotism in the hands of an imperfect successor, an -earthly despotism is not merely a bad form of government, it is -the worst form that is possible. - -My works showed what a despot could do with the resources of -a kingdom at his command. Unsuspected by this dark land, I had -the civilization of the nineteenth century booming under its very -nose! It was fenced away from the public view, but there it was, -a gigantic and unassailable fact--and to be heard from, yet, if -I lived and had luck. There it was, as sure a fact and as substantial -a fact as any serene volcano, standing innocent with its smokeless -summit in the blue sky and giving no sign of the rising hell in its -bowels. My schools and churches were children four years before; -they were grown-up now; my shops of that day were vast factories -now; where I had a dozen trained men then, I had a thousand now; -where I had one brilliant expert then, I had fifty now. I stood -with my hand on the cock, so to speak, ready to turn it on and -flood the midnight world with light at any moment. But I was not -going to do the thing in that sudden way. It was not my policy. -The people could not have stood it; and, moreover, I should have -had the Established Roman Catholic Church on my back in a minute. - -No, I had been going cautiously all the while. I had had confidential -agents trickling through the country some time, whose office was -to undermine knighthood by imperceptible degrees, and to gnaw -a little at this and that and the other superstition, and so prepare -the way gradually for a better order of things. I was turning on -my light one-candle-power at a time, and meant to continue to do so. - -I had scattered some branch schools secretly about the kingdom, -and they were doing very well. I meant to work this racket more -and more, as time wore on, if nothing occurred to frighten me. -One of my deepest secrets was my West Point--my military academy. -I kept that most jealously out of sight; and I did the same with my -naval academy which I had established at a remote seaport. Both -were prospering to my satisfaction. - -Clarence was twenty-two now, and was my head executive, my right -hand. He was a darling; he was equal to anything; there wasn't -anything he couldn't turn his hand to. Of late I had been training -him for journalism, for the time seemed about right for a start -in the newspaper line; nothing big, but just a small weekly for -experimental circulation in my civilization-nurseries. He took -to it like a duck; there was an editor concealed in him, sure. -Already he had doubled himself in one way; he talked sixth century -and wrote nineteenth. His journalistic style was climbing, -steadily; it was already up to the back settlement Alabama mark, -and couldn't be told from the editorial output of that region -either by matter or flavor. - -We had another large departure on hand, too. This was a telegraph -and a telephone; our first venture in this line. These wires were -for private service only, as yet, and must be kept private until -a riper day should come. We had a gang of men on the road, working -mainly by night. They were stringing ground wires; we were afraid -to put up poles, for they would attract too much inquiry. Ground -wires were good enough, in both instances, for my wires were -protected by an insulation of my own invention which was perfect. -My men had orders to strike across country, avoiding roads, and -establishing connection with any considerable towns whose lights -betrayed their presence, and leaving experts in charge. Nobody -could tell you how to find any place in the kingdom, for nobody -ever went intentionally to any place, but only struck it by -accident in his wanderings, and then generally left it without -thinking to inquire what its name was. At one time and another -we had sent out topographical expeditions to survey and map the -kingdom, but the priests had always interfered and raised trouble. -So we had given the thing up, for the present; it would be poor -wisdom to antagonize the Church. - -As for the general condition of the country, it was as it had been -when I arrived in it, to all intents and purposes. I had made -changes, but they were necessarily slight, and they were not -noticeable. Thus far, I had not even meddled with taxation, -outside of the taxes which provided the royal revenues. I had -systematized those, and put the service on an effective and -righteous basis. As a result, these revenues were already quadrupled, -and yet the burden was so much more equably distributed than -before, that all the kingdom felt a sense of relief, and the praises -of my administration were hearty and general. - -Personally, I struck an interruption, now, but I did not mind it, -it could not have happened at a better time. Earlier it could -have annoyed me, but now everything was in good hands and swimming -right along. The king had reminded me several times, of late, that -the postponement I had asked for, four years before, had about -run out now. It was a hint that I ought to be starting out to seek -adventures and get up a reputation of a size to make me worthy -of the honor of breaking a lance with Sir Sagramor, who was still -out grailing, but was being hunted for by various relief expeditions, -and might be found any year, now. So you see I was expecting -this interruption; it did not take me by surprise. - - - -CHAPTER XI - -THE YANKEE IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURES - -There never was such a country for wandering liars; and they were -of both sexes. Hardly a month went by without one of these tramps -arriving; and generally loaded with a tale about some princess or -other wanting help to get her out of some far-away castle where -she was held in captivity by a lawless scoundrel, usually a giant. -Now you would think that the first thing the king would do after -listening to such a novelette from an entire stranger, would be -to ask for credentials--yes, and a pointer or two as to locality -of castle, best route to it, and so on. But nobody ever thought -of so simple and common-sense a thing at that. No, everybody -swallowed these people's lies whole, and never asked a question -of any sort or about anything. Well, one day when I was not -around, one of these people came along--it was a she one, this -time--and told a tale of the usual pattern. Her mistress was -a captive in a vast and gloomy castle, along with forty-four other -young and beautiful girls, pretty much all of them princesses; -they had been languishing in that cruel captivity for twenty-six -years; the masters of the castle were three stupendous brothers, -each with four arms and one eye--the eye in the center of the -forehead, and as big as a fruit. Sort of fruit not mentioned; -their usual slovenliness in statistics. - -Would you believe it? The king and the whole Round Table were -in raptures over this preposterous opportunity for adventure. -Every knight of the Table jumped for the chance, and begged for it; -but to their vexation and chagrin the king conferred it upon me, -who had not asked for it at all. - -By an effort, I contained my joy when Clarence brought me the news. -But he--he could not contain his. His mouth gushed delight and -gratitude in a steady discharge--delight in my good fortune, -gratitude to the king for this splendid mark of his favor for me. -He could keep neither his legs nor his body still, but pirouetted -about the place in an airy ecstasy of happiness. - -On my side, I could have cursed the kindness that conferred upon -me this benefaction, but I kept my vexation under the surface -for policy's sake, and did what I could to let on to be glad. -Indeed, I _said_ I was glad. And in a way it was true; I was as -glad as a person is when he is scalped. - -Well, one must make the best of things, and not waste time with -useless fretting, but get down to business and see what can be -done. In all lies there is wheat among the chaff; I must get at -the wheat in this case: so I sent for the girl and she came. She -was a comely enough creature, and soft and modest, but, if signs -went for anything, she didn't know as much as a lady's watch. I said: - -"My dear, have you been questioned as to particulars?" - -She said she hadn't. - -"Well, I didn't expect you had, but I thought I would ask, to make -sure; it's the way I've been raised. Now you mustn't take it -unkindly if I remind you that as we don't know you, we must go -a little slow. You may be all right, of course, and we'll hope -that you are; but to take it for granted isn't business. _You_ -understand that. I'm obliged to ask you a few questions; just -answer up fair and square, and don't be afraid. Where do you -live, when you are at home?" - -"In the land of Moder, fair sir." - -"Land of Moder. I don't remember hearing of it before. -Parents living?" - -"As to that, I know not if they be yet on live, sith it is many -years that I have lain shut up in the castle." - -"Your name, please?" - -"I hight the Demoiselle Alisande la Carteloise, an it please you." - -"Do you know anybody here who can identify you?" - -"That were not likely, fair lord, I being come hither now for -the first time." - -"Have you brought any letters--any documents--any proofs that -you are trustworthy and truthful?" - -"Of a surety, no; and wherefore should I? Have I not a tongue, -and cannot I say all that myself?" - -"But _your_ saying it, you know, and somebody else's saying it, -is different." - -"Different? How might that be? I fear me I do not understand." - -"Don't _understand_? Land of--why, you see--you see--why, great Scott, -can't you understand a little thing like that? Can't you understand -the difference between your--_why_ do you look so innocent and idiotic!" - -"I? In truth I know not, but an it were the will of God." - -"Yes, yes, I reckon that's about the size of it. Don't mind my -seeming excited; I'm not. Let us change the subject. Now as -to this castle, with forty-five princesses in it, and three ogres -at the head of it, tell me--where is this harem?" - -"Harem?" - -"The _castle_, you understand; where is the castle?" - -"Oh, as to that, it is great, and strong, and well beseen, and -lieth in a far country. Yes, it is many leagues." - -"_How_ many?" - -"Ah, fair sir, it were woundily hard to tell, they are so many, -and do so lap the one upon the other, and being made all in the -same image and tincted with the same color, one may not know -the one league from its fellow, nor how to count them except -they be taken apart, and ye wit well it were God's work to do -that, being not within man's capacity; for ye will note--" - -"Hold on, hold on, never mind about the distance; _whereabouts_ -does the castle lie? What's the direction from here?" - -"Ah, please you sir, it hath no direction from here; by reason -that the road lieth not straight, but turneth evermore; wherefore -the direction of its place abideth not, but is some time under -the one sky and anon under another, whereso if ye be minded that -it is in the east, and wend thitherward, ye shall observe that -the way of the road doth yet again turn upon itself by the space -of half a circle, and this marvel happing again and yet again and -still again, it will grieve you that you had thought by vanities -of the mind to thwart and bring to naught the will of Him that -giveth not a castle a direction from a place except it pleaseth -Him, and if it please Him not, will the rather that even all castles -and all directions thereunto vanish out of the earth, leaving the -places wherein they tarried desolate and vacant, so warning His -creatures that where He will He will, and where He will not He--" - -"Oh, that's all right, that's all right, give us a rest; never mind -about the direction, _hang_ the direction--I beg pardon, I beg -a thousand pardons, I am not well to-day; pay no attention when -I soliloquize, it is an old habit, an old, bad habit, and hard -to get rid of when one's digestion is all disordered with eating -food that was raised forever and ever before he was born; good -land! a man can't keep his functions regular on spring chickens -thirteen hundred years old. But come--never mind about that; -let's--have you got such a thing as a map of that region about -you? Now a good map--" - -"Is it peradventure that manner of thing which of late the unbelievers -have brought from over the great seas, which, being boiled in oil, -and an onion and salt added thereto, doth--" - -"What, a map? What are you talking about? Don't you know what -a map is? There, there, never mind, don't explain, I hate -explanations; they fog a thing up so that you can't tell anything -about it. Run along, dear; good-day; show her the way, Clarence." - -Oh, well, it was reasonably plain, now, why these donkeys didn't -prospect these liars for details. It may be that this girl had -a fact in her somewhere, but I don't believe you could have sluiced -it out with a hydraulic; nor got it with the earlier forms of -blasting, even; it was a case for dynamite. Why, she was a perfect -ass; and yet the king and his knights had listened to her as if -she had been a leaf out of the gospel. It kind of sizes up the -whole party. And think of the simple ways of this court: this -wandering wench hadn't any more trouble to get access to the king -in his palace than she would have had to get into the poorhouse -in my day and country. In fact, he was glad to see her, glad -to hear her tale; with that adventure of hers to offer, she was -as welcome as a corpse is to a coroner. - -Just as I was ending-up these reflections, Clarence came back. -I remarked upon the barren result of my efforts with the girl; -hadn't got hold of a single point that could help me to find -the castle. The youth looked a little surprised, or puzzled, -or something, and intimated that he had been wondering to himself -what I had wanted to ask the girl all those questions for. - -"Why, great guns," I said, "don't I want to find the castle? And -how else would I go about it?" - -"La, sweet your worship, one may lightly answer that, I ween. -She will go with thee. They always do. She will ride with thee." - -"Ride with me? Nonsense!" - -"But of a truth she will. She will ride with thee. Thou shalt see." - -"What? She browse around the hills and scour the woods with me ---alone--and I as good as engaged to be married? Why, it's scandalous. -Think how it would look." - -My, the dear face that rose before me! The boy was eager to know -all about this tender matter. I swore him to secrecy and then -whispered her name--"Puss Flanagan." He looked disappointed, -and said he didn't remember the countess. How natural it was for -the little courtier to give her a rank. He asked me where she lived. - -"In East Har--" I came to myself and stopped, a little confused; -then I said, "Never mind, now; I'll tell you some time." - -And might he see her? Would I let him see her some day? - -It was but a little thing to promise--thirteen hundred years -or so--and he so eager; so I said Yes. But I sighed; I couldn't -help it. And yet there was no sense in sighing, for she wasn't -born yet. But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, -where we feel; we just feel. - -My expedition was all the talk that day and that night, and the -boys were very good to me, and made much of me, and seemed to have -forgotten their vexation and disappointment, and come to be as -anxious for me to hive those ogres and set those ripe old virgins -loose as if it were themselves that had the contract. Well, they -_were_ good children--but just children, that is all. And they -gave me no end of points about how to scout for giants, and how -to scoop them in; and they told me all sorts of charms against -enchantments, and gave me salves and other rubbish to put on my -wounds. But it never occurred to one of them to reflect that if -I was such a wonderful necromancer as I was pretending to be, -I ought not to need salves or instructions, or charms against -enchantments, and, least of all, arms and armor, on a foray of any -kind--even against fire-spouting dragons, and devils hot from -perdition, let alone such poor adversaries as these I was after, -these commonplace ogres of the back settlements. - -I was to have an early breakfast, and start at dawn, for that was -the usual way; but I had the demon's own time with my armor, -and this delayed me a little. It is troublesome to get into, and -there is so much detail. First you wrap a layer or two of blanket -around your body, for a sort of cushion and to keep off the cold -iron; then you put on your sleeves and shirt of chain mail--these -are made of small steel links woven together, and they form a fabric -so flexible that if you toss your shirt onto the floor, it slumps -into a pile like a peck of wet fish-net; it is very heavy and -is nearly the uncomfortablest material in the world for a night -shirt, yet plenty used it for that--tax collectors, and reformers, -and one-horse kings with a defective title, and those sorts of -people; then you put on your shoes--flat-boats roofed over with -interleaving bands of steel--and screw your clumsy spurs into -the heels. Next you buckle your greaves on your legs, and your -cuisses on your thighs; then come your backplate and your breastplate, -and you begin to feel crowded; then you hitch onto the breastplate -the half-petticoat of broad overlapping bands of steel which hangs -down in front but is scolloped out behind so you can sit down, -and isn't any real improvement on an inverted coal scuttle, either -for looks or for wear, or to wipe your hands on; next you belt -on your sword; then you put your stove-pipe joints onto your arms, -your iron gauntlets onto your hands, your iron rat-trap onto your -head, with a rag of steel web hitched onto it to hang over the back -of your neck--and there you are, snug as a candle in a candle-mould. -This is no time to dance. Well, a man that is packed away like -that is a nut that isn't worth the cracking, there is so little of -the meat, when you get down to it, by comparison with the shell. - -The boys helped me, or I never could have got in. Just as we -finished, Sir Bedivere happened in, and I saw that as like as not -I hadn't chosen the most convenient outfit for a long trip. How -stately he looked; and tall and broad and grand. He had on his -head a conical steel casque that only came down to his ears, and -for visor had only a narrow steel bar that extended down to his -upper lip and protected his nose; and all the rest of him, from -neck to heel, was flexible chain mail, trousers and all. But -pretty much all of him was hidden under his outside garment, which -of course was of chain mail, as I said, and hung straight from his -shoulders to his ankles; and from his middle to the bottom, both -before and behind, was divided, so that he could ride and let the -skirts hang down on each side. He was going grailing, and it was -just the outfit for it, too. I would have given a good deal for -that ulster, but it was too late now to be fooling around. The sun -was just up, the king and the court were all on hand to see me off -and wish me luck; so it wouldn't be etiquette for me to tarry. -You don't get on your horse yourself; no, if you tried it you -would get disappointed. They carry you out, just as they carry -a sun-struck man to the drug store, and put you on, and help get -you to rights, and fix your feet in the stirrups; and all the while -you do feel so strange and stuffy and like somebody else--like -somebody that has been married on a sudden, or struck by lightning, -or something like that, and hasn't quite fetched around yet, and -is sort of numb, and can't just get his bearings. Then they -stood up the mast they called a spear, in its socket by my left -foot, and I gripped it with my hand; lastly they hung my shield -around my neck, and I was all complete and ready to up anchor -and get to sea. Everybody was as good to me as they could be, -and a maid of honor gave me the stirrup-cup her own self. There was -nothing more to do now, but for that damsel to get up behind me on -a pillion, which she did, and put an arm or so around me to hold on. - -And so we started, and everybody gave us a goodbye and waved their -handkerchiefs or helmets. And everybody we met, going down the hill -and through the village was respectful to us, except some shabby -little boys on the outskirts. They said: - -"Oh, what a guy!" And hove clods at us. - -In my experience boys are the same in all ages. They don't respect -anything, they don't care for anything or anybody. They say -"Go up, baldhead" to the prophet going his unoffending way in -the gray of antiquity; they sass me in the holy gloom of the -Middle Ages; and I had seen them act the same way in Buchanan's -administration; I remember, because I was there and helped. The -prophet had his bears and settled with his boys; and I wanted -to get down and settle with mine, but it wouldn't answer, because -I couldn't have got up again. I hate a country without a derrick. - - - -CHAPTER XII - -SLOW TORTURE - -Straight off, we were in the country. It was most lovely and -pleasant in those sylvan solitudes in the early cool morning -in the first freshness of autumn. From hilltops we saw fair -green valleys lying spread out below, with streams winding through -them, and island groves of trees here and there, and huge lonely -oaks scattered about and casting black blots of shade; and beyond -the valleys we saw the ranges of hills, blue with haze, stretching -away in billowy perspective to the horizon, with at wide intervals -a dim fleck of white or gray on a wave-summit, which we knew was -a castle. We crossed broad natural lawns sparkling with dew, -and we moved like spirits, the cushioned turf giving out no sound -of footfall; we dreamed along through glades in a mist of green -light that got its tint from the sun-drenched roof of leaves -overhead, and by our feet the clearest and coldest of runlets -went frisking and gossiping over its reefs and making a sort of -whispering music, comfortable to hear; and at times we left the -world behind and entered into the solemn great deeps and rich -gloom of the forest, where furtive wild things whisked and scurried -by and were gone before you could even get your eye on the place -where the noise was; and where only the earliest birds were turning -out and getting to business with a song here and a quarrel yonder -and a mysterious far-off hammering and drumming for worms on -a tree trunk away somewhere in the impenetrable remotenesses of -the woods. And by and by out we would swing again into the glare. - -About the third or fourth or fifth time that we swung out into -the glare--it was along there somewhere, a couple of hours or so -after sun-up--it wasn't as pleasant as it had been. It was -beginning to get hot. This was quite noticeable. We had a very -long pull, after that, without any shade. Now it is curious how -progressively little frets grow and multiply after they once get -a start. Things which I didn't mind at all, at first, I began -to mind now--and more and more, too, all the time. The first -ten or fifteen times I wanted my handkerchief I didn't seem to care; -I got along, and said never mind, it isn't any matter, and dropped -it out of my mind. But now it was different; I wanted it all -the time; it was nag, nag, nag, right along, and no rest; I couldn't -get it out of my mind; and so at last I lost my temper and said -hang a man that would make a suit of armor without any pockets -in it. You see I had my handkerchief in my helmet; and some other -things; but it was that kind of a helmet that you can't take off -by yourself. That hadn't occurred to me when I put it there; -and in fact I didn't know it. I supposed it would be particularly -convenient there. And so now, the thought of its being there, -so handy and close by, and yet not get-at-able, made it all the -worse and the harder to bear. Yes, the thing that you can't get -is the thing that you want, mainly; every one has noticed that. -Well, it took my mind off from everything else; took it clear off, -and centered it in my helmet; and mile after mile, there it stayed, -imagining the handkerchief, picturing the handkerchief; and it -was bitter and aggravating to have the salt sweat keep trickling -down into my eyes, and I couldn't get at it. It seems like a little -thing, on paper, but it was not a little thing at all; it was -the most real kind of misery. I would not say it if it was not so. -I made up my mind that I would carry along a reticule next time, -let it look how it might, and people say what they would. Of course -these iron dudes of the Round Table would think it was scandalous, -and maybe raise Sheol about it, but as for me, give me comfort -first, and style afterwards. So we jogged along, and now and then -we struck a stretch of dust, and it would tumble up in clouds and -get into my nose and make me sneeze and cry; and of course I said -things I oughtn't to have said, I don't deny that. I am not -better than others. - -We couldn't seem to meet anybody in this lonesome Britain, not -even an ogre; and, in the mood I was in then, it was well for -the ogre; that is, an ogre with a handkerchief. Most knights -would have thought of nothing but getting his armor; but so I got -his bandanna, he could keep his hardware, for all of me. - -Meantime, it was getting hotter and hotter in there. You see, -the sun was beating down and warming up the iron more and more -all the time. Well, when you are hot, that way, every little thing -irritates you. When I trotted, I rattled like a crate of dishes, -and that annoyed me; and moreover I couldn't seem to stand that -shield slatting and banging, now about my breast, now around my -back; and if I dropped into a walk my joints creaked and screeched -in that wearisome way that a wheelbarrow does, and as we didn't -create any breeze at that gait, I was like to get fried in that -stove; and besides, the quieter you went the heavier the iron -settled down on you and the more and more tons you seemed to weigh -every minute. And you had to be always changing hands, and passing -your spear over to the other foot, it got so irksome for one hand -to hold it long at a time. - -Well, you know, when you perspire that way, in rivers, there comes -a time when you--when you--well, when you itch. You are inside, -your hands are outside; so there you are; nothing but iron between. -It is not a light thing, let it sound as it may. First it is one -place; then another; then some more; and it goes on spreading and -spreading, and at last the territory is all occupied, and nobody -can imagine what you feel like, nor how unpleasant it is. And -when it had got to the worst, and it seemed to me that I could -not stand anything more, a fly got in through the bars and settled -on my nose, and the bars were stuck and wouldn't work, and I -couldn't get the visor up; and I could only shake my head, which -was baking hot by this time, and the fly--well, you know how a fly -acts when he has got a certainty--he only minded the shaking enough -to change from nose to lip, and lip to ear, and buzz and buzz -all around in there, and keep on lighting and biting, in a way -that a person, already so distressed as I was, simply could not -stand. So I gave in, and got Alisande to unship the helmet and -relieve me of it. Then she emptied the conveniences out of it -and fetched it full of water, and I drank and then stood up, and -she poured the rest down inside the armor. One cannot think how -refreshing it was. She continued to fetch and pour until I was -well soaked and thoroughly comfortable. - -It was good to have a rest--and peace. But nothing is quite -perfect in this life, at any time. I had made a pipe a while back, -and also some pretty fair tobacco; not the real thing, but what -some of the Indians use: the inside bark of the willow, dried. -These comforts had been in the helmet, and now I had them again, -but no matches. - -Gradually, as the time wore along, one annoying fact was borne in -upon my understanding--that we were weather-bound. An armed novice -cannot mount his horse without help and plenty of it. Sandy was -not enough; not enough for me, anyway. We had to wait until -somebody should come along. Waiting, in silence, would have been -agreeable enough, for I was full of matter for reflection, and -wanted to give it a chance to work. I wanted to try and think out -how it was that rational or even half-rational men could ever -have learned to wear armor, considering its inconveniences; and -how they had managed to keep up such a fashion for generations -when it was plain that what I had suffered to-day they had had -to suffer all the days of their lives. I wanted to think that out; -and moreover I wanted to think out some way to reform this evil -and persuade the people to let the foolish fashion die out; but -thinking was out of the question in the circumstances. You couldn't -think, where Sandy was. - -She was a quite biddable creature and good-hearted, but she had -a flow of talk that was as steady as a mill, and made your head -sore like the drays and wagons in a city. If she had had a cork -she would have been a comfort. But you can't cork that kind; -they would die. Her clack was going all day, and you would think -something would surely happen to her works, by and by; but no, -they never got out of order; and she never had to slack up for -words. She could grind, and pump, and churn, and buzz by the week, -and never stop to oil up or blow out. And yet the result was just -nothing but wind. She never had any ideas, any more than a fog -has. She was a perfect blatherskite; I mean for jaw, jaw, jaw, -talk, talk, talk, jabber, jabber, jabber; but just as good as she -could be. I hadn't minded her mill that morning, on account of -having that hornets' nest of other troubles; but more than once -in the afternoon I had to say: - -"Take a rest, child; the way you are using up all the domestic air, -the kingdom will have to go to importing it by to-morrow, and it's -a low enough treasury without that." - - - -CHAPTER XIII - -FREEMEN - -Yes, it is strange how little a while at a time a person can be -contented. Only a little while back, when I was riding and -suffering, what a heaven this peace, this rest, this sweet serenity -in this secluded shady nook by this purling stream would have -seemed, where I could keep perfectly comfortable all the time -by pouring a dipper of water into my armor now and then; yet -already I was getting dissatisfied; partly because I could not -light my pipe--for, although I had long ago started a match factory, -I had forgotten to bring matches with me--and partly because we -had nothing to eat. Here was another illustration of the childlike -improvidence of this age and people. A man in armor always trusted -to chance for his food on a journey, and would have been scandalized -at the idea of hanging a basket of sandwiches on his spear. There -was probably not a knight of all the Round Table combination who -would not rather have died than been caught carrying such a thing -as that on his flagstaff. And yet there could not be anything more -sensible. It had been my intention to smuggle a couple of sandwiches -into my helmet, but I was interrupted in the act, and had to make -an excuse and lay them aside, and a dog got them. - -Night approached, and with it a storm. The darkness came on fast. -We must camp, of course. I found a good shelter for the demoiselle -under a rock, and went off and found another for myself. But -I was obliged to remain in my armor, because I could not get it off -by myself and yet could not allow Alisande to help, because it -would have seemed so like undressing before folk. It would not -have amounted to that in reality, because I had clothes on -underneath; but the prejudices of one's breeding are not gotten -rid of just at a jump, and I knew that when it came to stripping -off that bob-tailed iron petticoat I should be embarrassed. - -With the storm came a change of weather; and the stronger the wind -blew, and the wilder the rain lashed around, the colder and colder -it got. Pretty soon, various kinds of bugs and ants and worms -and things began to flock in out of the wet and crawl down inside -my armor to get warm; and while some of them behaved well enough, -and snuggled up amongst my clothes and got quiet, the majority -were of a restless, uncomfortable sort, and never stayed still, -but went on prowling and hunting for they did not know what; -especially the ants, which went tickling along in wearisome -procession from one end of me to the other by the hour, and are -a kind of creatures which I never wish to sleep with again. -It would be my advice to persons situated in this way, to not roll -or thrash around, because this excites the interest of all the -different sorts of animals and makes every last one of them want -to turn out and see what is going on, and this makes things worse -than they were before, and of course makes you objurgate harder, -too, if you can. Still, if one did not roll and thrash around -he would die; so perhaps it is as well to do one way as the other; -there is no real choice. Even after I was frozen solid I could -still distinguish that tickling, just as a corpse does when he is -taking electric treatment. I said I would never wear armor -after this trip. - -All those trying hours whilst I was frozen and yet was in a living -fire, as you may say, on account of that swarm of crawlers, that -same unanswerable question kept circling and circling through my -tired head: How do people stand this miserable armor? How have -they managed to stand it all these generations? How can they sleep -at night for dreading the tortures of next day? - -When the morning came at last, I was in a bad enough plight: seedy, -drowsy, fagged, from want of sleep; weary from thrashing around, -famished from long fasting; pining for a bath, and to get rid of -the animals; and crippled with rheumatism. And how had it fared -with the nobly born, the titled aristocrat, the Demoiselle Alisande -la Carteloise? Why, she was as fresh as a squirrel; she had slept -like the dead; and as for a bath, probably neither she nor any -other noble in the land had ever had one, and so she was not -missing it. Measured by modern standards, they were merely modified -savages, those people. This noble lady showed no impatience to get -to breakfast--and that smacks of the savage, too. On their journeys -those Britons were used to long fasts, and knew how to bear them; -and also how to freight up against probable fasts before starting, -after the style of the Indian and the anaconda. As like as not, -Sandy was loaded for a three-day stretch. - -We were off before sunrise, Sandy riding and I limping along -behind. In half an hour we came upon a group of ragged poor -creatures who had assembled to mend the thing which was regarded -as a road. They were as humble as animals to me; and when I -proposed to breakfast with them, they were so flattered, so -overwhelmed by this extraordinary condescension of mine that -at first they were not able to believe that I was in earnest. -My lady put up her scornful lip and withdrew to one side; she said -in their hearing that she would as soon think of eating with the -other cattle--a remark which embarrassed these poor devils merely -because it referred to them, and not because it insulted or offended -them, for it didn't. And yet they were not slaves, not chattels. -By a sarcasm of law and phrase they were freemen. Seven-tenths -of the free population of the country were of just their class and -degree: small "independent" farmers, artisans, etc.; which is -to say, they were the nation, the actual Nation; they were about -all of it that was useful, or worth saving, or really respect-worthy, -and to subtract them would have been to subtract the Nation and -leave behind some dregs, some refuse, in the shape of a king, -nobility and gentry, idle, unproductive, acquainted mainly with -the arts of wasting and destroying, and of no sort of use or value -in any rationally constructed world. And yet, by ingenious -contrivance, this gilded minority, instead of being in the tail -of the procession where it belonged, was marching head up and -banners flying, at the other end of it; had elected itself to be -the Nation, and these innumerable clams had permitted it so long -that they had come at last to accept it as a truth; and not only -that, but to believe it right and as it should be. The priests -had told their fathers and themselves that this ironical state -of things was ordained of God; and so, not reflecting upon how -unlike God it would be to amuse himself with sarcasms, and especially -such poor transparent ones as this, they had dropped the matter -there and become respectfully quiet. - -The talk of these meek people had a strange enough sound in -a formerly American ear. They were freemen, but they could not -leave the estates of their lord or their bishop without his -permission; they could not prepare their own bread, but must have -their corn ground and their bread baked at his mill and his bakery, -and pay roundly for the same; they could not sell a piece of their -own property without paying him a handsome percentage of the -proceeds, nor buy a piece of somebody else's without remembering -him in cash for the privilege; they had to harvest his grain for him -gratis, and be ready to come at a moment's notice, leaving their -own crop to destruction by the threatened storm; they had to let -him plant fruit trees in their fields, and then keep their indignation -to themselves when his heedless fruit-gatherers trampled the grain -around the trees; they had to smother their anger when his hunting -parties galloped through their fields laying waste the result of -their patient toil; they were not allowed to keep doves themselves, -and when the swarms from my lord's dovecote settled on their crops -they must not lose their temper and kill a bird, for awful would -the penalty be; when the harvest was at last gathered, then came -the procession of robbers to levy their blackmail upon it: first -the Church carted off its fat tenth, then the king's commissioner -took his twentieth, then my lord's people made a mighty inroad -upon the remainder; after which, the skinned freeman had liberty -to bestow the remnant in his barn, in case it was worth the trouble; -there were taxes, and taxes, and taxes, and more taxes, and taxes -again, and yet other taxes--upon this free and independent pauper, -but none upon his lord the baron or the bishop, none upon the -wasteful nobility or the all-devouring Church; if the baron would -sleep unvexed, the freeman must sit up all night after his day's -work and whip the ponds to keep the frogs quiet; if the freeman's -daughter--but no, that last infamy of monarchical government is -unprintable; and finally, if the freeman, grown desperate with his -tortures, found his life unendurable under such conditions, and -sacrificed it and fled to death for mercy and refuge, the gentle -Church condemned him to eternal fire, the gentle law buried him -at midnight at the cross-roads with a stake through his back, -and his master the baron or the bishop confiscated all his property -and turned his widow and his orphans out of doors. - -And here were these freemen assembled in the early morning to work -on their lord the bishop's road three days each--gratis; every -head of a family, and every son of a family, three days each, -gratis, and a day or so added for their servants. Why, it was -like reading about France and the French, before the ever memorable -and blessed Revolution, which swept a thousand years of such -villany away in one swift tidal-wave of blood--one: a settlement -of that hoary debt in the proportion of half a drop of blood for -each hogshead of it that had been pressed by slow tortures out of -that people in the weary stretch of ten centuries of wrong and -shame and misery the like of which was not to be mated but in hell. -There were two "Reigns of Terror," if we would but remember it -and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other -in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had -lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand -persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are -all for the "horrors" of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, -so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, -compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, -and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with -death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the -coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so -diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could -hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror ---that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has -been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves. - -These poor ostensible freemen who were sharing their breakfast -and their talk with me, were as full of humble reverence for their -king and Church and nobility as their worst enemy could desire. -There was something pitifully ludicrous about it. I asked them -if they supposed a nation of people ever existed, who, with a free -vote in every man's hand, would elect that a single family and its -descendants should reign over it forever, whether gifted or boobies, -to the exclusion of all other families--including the voter's; and -would also elect that a certain hundred families should be raised -to dizzy summits of rank, and clothed on with offensive transmissible -glories and privileges to the exclusion of the rest of the nation's -families--_including his own_. - -They all looked unhit, and said they didn't know; that they had -never thought about it before, and it hadn't ever occurred to them -that a nation could be so situated that every man _could_ have -a say in the government. I said I had seen one--and that it would -last until it had an Established Church. Again they were all -unhit--at first. But presently one man looked up and asked me -to state that proposition again; and state it slowly, so it could -soak into his understanding. I did it; and after a little he had -the idea, and he brought his fist down and said _he_ didn't believe -a nation where every man had a vote would voluntarily get down -in the mud and dirt in any such way; and that to steal from a nation -its will and preference must be a crime and the first of all crimes. -I said to myself: - -"This one's a man. If I were backed by enough of his sort, I would -make a strike for the welfare of this country, and try to prove -myself its loyalest citizen by making a wholesome change in its -system of government." - -You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to -its institutions or its office-holders. The country is the real -thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing -to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are -extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, -become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body -from winter, disease, and death. To be loyal to rags, to shout -for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags--that is a loyalty -of unreason, it is pure animal; it belongs to monarchy, was invented -by monarchy; let monarchy keep it. I was from Connecticut, whose -Constitution declares "that all political power is inherent in -the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority -and instituted for their benefit; and that they have _at all times_ -an undeniable and indefeasible right to _alter their form of -government_ in such a manner as they may think expedient." - -Under that gospel, the citizen who thinks he sees that the -commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his -peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal; he is -a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this -decay, does not excuse him; it is his duty to agitate anyway, and -it is the duty of the others to vote him down if they do not see -the matter as he does. - -And now here I was, in a country where a right to say how the -country should be governed was restricted to six persons in each -thousand of its population. For the nine hundred and ninety-four -to express dissatisfaction with the regnant system and propose -to change it, would have made the whole six shudder as one man, -it would have been so disloyal, so dishonorable, such putrid black -treason. So to speak, I was become a stockholder in a corporation -where nine hundred and ninety-four of the members furnished all -the money and did all the work, and the other six elected themselves -a permanent board of direction and took all the dividends. It seemed -to me that what the nine hundred and ninety-four dupes needed was -a new deal. The thing that would have best suited the circus side -of my nature would have been to resign the Boss-ship and get up -an insurrection and turn it into a revolution; but I knew that the -Jack Cade or the Wat Tyler who tries such a thing without first -educating his materials up to revolution grade is almost absolutely -certain to get left. I had never been accustomed to getting left, -even if I do say it myself. Wherefore, the "deal" which had been -for some time working into shape in my mind was of a quite different -pattern from the Cade-Tyler sort. - -So I did not talk blood and insurrection to that man there who sat -munching black bread with that abused and mistaught herd of human -sheep, but took him aside and talked matter of another sort to him. -After I had finished, I got him to lend me a little ink from his -veins; and with this and a sliver I wrote on a piece of bark-- - - Put him in the Man-factory-- - -and gave it to him, and said: - -"Take it to the palace at Camelot and give it into the hands of -Amyas le Poulet, whom I call Clarence, and he will understand." - -"He is a priest, then," said the man, and some of the enthusiasm -went out of his face. - -"How--a priest? Didn't I tell you that no chattel of the Church, -no bond-slave of pope or bishop can enter my Man-Factory? Didn't -I tell you that _you_ couldn't enter unless your religion, whatever -it might be, was your own free property?" - -"Marry, it is so, and for that I was glad; wherefore it liked me not, -and bred in me a cold doubt, to hear of this priest being there." - -"But he isn't a priest, I tell you." - -The man looked far from satisfied. He said: - -"He is not a priest, and yet can read?" - -"He is not a priest and yet can read--yes, and write, too, for that -matter. I taught him myself." The man's face cleared. "And it is -the first thing that you yourself will be taught in that Factory--" - -"I? I would give blood out of my heart to know that art. Why, -I will be your slave, your--" - -"No you won't, you won't be anybody's slave. Take your family -and go along. Your lord the bishop will confiscate your small -property, but no matter. Clarence will fix you all right." - - - -CHAPTER XIV - -"DEFEND THEE, LORD" - -I paid three pennies for my breakfast, and a most extravagant -price it was, too, seeing that one could have breakfasted a dozen -persons for that money; but I was feeling good by this time, and -I had always been a kind of spendthrift anyway; and then these -people had wanted to give me the food for nothing, scant as -their provision was, and so it was a grateful pleasure to emphasize -my appreciation and sincere thankfulness with a good big financial -lift where the money would do so much more good than it would -in my helmet, where, these pennies being made of iron and not -stinted in weight, my half-dollar's worth was a good deal of a -burden to me. I spent money rather too freely in those days, -it is true; but one reason for it was that I hadn't got the -proportions of things entirely adjusted, even yet, after so long -a sojourn in Britain--hadn't got along to where I was able to -absolutely realize that a penny in Arthur's land and a couple of -dollars in Connecticut were about one and the same thing: just -twins, as you may say, in purchasing power. If my start from -Camelot could have been delayed a very few days I could have paid -these people in beautiful new coins from our own mint, and that -would have pleased me; and them, too, not less. I had adopted -the American values exclusively. In a week or two now, cents, -nickels, dimes, quarters, and half-dollars, and also a trifle of -gold, would be trickling in thin but steady streams all through -the commercial veins of the kingdom, and I looked to see this -new blood freshen up its life. - -The farmers were bound to throw in something, to sort of offset -my liberality, whether I would or no; so I let them give me a flint -and steel; and as soon as they had comfortably bestowed Sandy -and me on our horse, I lit my pipe. When the first blast of smoke -shot out through the bars of my helmet, all those people broke -for the woods, and Sandy went over backwards and struck the ground -with a dull thud. They thought I was one of those fire-belching -dragons they had heard so much about from knights and other -professional liars. I had infinite trouble to persuade those people -to venture back within explaining distance. Then I told them that -this was only a bit of enchantment which would work harm to none -but my enemies. And I promised, with my hand on my heart, that -if all who felt no enmity toward me would come forward and pass -before me they should see that only those who remained behind would -be struck dead. The procession moved with a good deal of promptness. -There were no casualties to report, for nobody had curiosity enough -to remain behind to see what would happen. - -I lost some time, now, for these big children, their fears gone, -became so ravished with wonder over my awe-compelling fireworks -that I had to stay there and smoke a couple of pipes out before -they would let me go. Still the delay was not wholly unproductive, -for it took all that time to get Sandy thoroughly wonted to the new -thing, she being so close to it, you know. It plugged up her -conversation mill, too, for a considerable while, and that was -a gain. But above all other benefits accruing, I had learned -something. I was ready for any giant or any ogre that might come -along, now. - -We tarried with a holy hermit, that night, and my opportunity -came about the middle of the next afternoon. We were crossing -a vast meadow by way of short-cut, and I was musing absently, -hearing nothing, seeing nothing, when Sandy suddenly interrupted -a remark which she had begun that morning, with the cry: - -"Defend thee, lord!--peril of life is toward!" - -And she slipped down from the horse and ran a little way and stood. -I looked up and saw, far off in the shade of a tree, half a dozen -armed knights and their squires; and straightway there was bustle -among them and tightening of saddle-girths for the mount. My pipe -was ready and would have been lit, if I had not been lost in -thinking about how to banish oppression from this land and restore -to all its people their stolen rights and manhood without disobliging -anybody. I lit up at once, and by the time I had got a good head -of reserved steam on, here they came. All together, too; none of -those chivalrous magnanimities which one reads so much about ---one courtly rascal at a time, and the rest standing by to see fair -play. No, they came in a body, they came with a whirr and a rush, -they came like a volley from a battery; came with heads low down, -plumes streaming out behind, lances advanced at a level. It was -a handsome sight, a beautiful sight--for a man up a tree. I laid -my lance in rest and waited, with my heart beating, till the iron -wave was just ready to break over me, then spouted a column of -white smoke through the bars of my helmet. You should have seen -the wave go to pieces and scatter! This was a finer sight than -the other one. - -But these people stopped, two or three hundred yards away, and -this troubled me. My satisfaction collapsed, and fear came; -I judged I was a lost man. But Sandy was radiant; and was going -to be eloquent--but I stopped her, and told her my magic had -miscarried, somehow or other, and she must mount, with all despatch, -and we must ride for life. No, she wouldn't. She said that my -enchantment had disabled those knights; they were not riding on, -because they couldn't; wait, they would drop out of their saddles -presently, and we would get their horses and harness. I could not -deceive such trusting simplicity, so I said it was a mistake; that -when my fireworks killed at all, they killed instantly; no, the men -would not die, there was something wrong about my apparatus, -I couldn't tell what; but we must hurry and get away, for those -people would attack us again, in a minute. Sandy laughed, and said: - -"Lack-a-day, sir, they be not of that breed! Sir Launcelot will -give battle to dragons, and will abide by them, and will assail -them again, and yet again, and still again, until he do conquer -and destroy them; and so likewise will Sir Pellinore and Sir Aglovale -and Sir Carados, and mayhap others, but there be none else that -will venture it, let the idle say what the idle will. And, la, -as to yonder base rufflers, think ye they have not their fill, -but yet desire more?" - -"Well, then, what are they waiting for? Why don't they leave? -Nobody's hindering. Good land, I'm willing to let bygones be -bygones, I'm sure." - -"Leave, is it? Oh, give thyself easement as to that. They dream -not of it, no, not they. They wait to yield them." - -"Come--really, is that 'sooth'--as you people say? If they want to, -why don't they?" - -"It would like them much; but an ye wot how dragons are esteemed, -ye would not hold them blamable. They fear to come." - -"Well, then, suppose I go to them instead, and--" - -"Ah, wit ye well they would not abide your coming. I will go." - -And she did. She was a handy person to have along on a raid. -I would have considered this a doubtful errand, myself. I presently -saw the knights riding away, and Sandy coming back. That was -a relief. I judged she had somehow failed to get the first innings ---I mean in the conversation; otherwise the interview wouldn't have -been so short. But it turned out that she had managed the business -well; in fact, admirably. She said that when she told those people -I was The Boss, it hit them where they lived: "smote them sore -with fear and dread" was her word; and then they were ready to -put up with anything she might require. So she swore them to appear -at Arthur's court within two days and yield them, with horse and -harness, and be my knights henceforth, and subject to my command. -How much better she managed that thing than I should have done -it myself! She was a daisy. - - - -CHAPTER XV - -SANDY'S TALE - -"And so I'm proprietor of some knights," said I, as we rode off. -"Who would ever have supposed that I should live to list up assets -of that sort. I shan't know what to do with them; unless I raffle -them off. How many of them are there, Sandy?" - -"Seven, please you, sir, and their squires." - -"It is a good haul. Who are they? Where do they hang out?" - -"Where do they hang out?" - -"Yes, where do they live?" - -"Ah, I understood thee not. That will I tell eftsoons." Then she -said musingly, and softly, turning the words daintily over her -tongue: "Hang they out--hang they out--where hang--where do they -hang out; eh, right so; where do they hang out. Of a truth the -phrase hath a fair and winsome grace, and is prettily worded -withal. I will repeat it anon and anon in mine idlesse, whereby -I may peradventure learn it. Where do they hang out. Even so! -already it falleth trippingly from my tongue, and forasmuch as--" - -"Don't forget the cowboys, Sandy." - -"Cowboys?" - -"Yes; the knights, you know: You were going to tell me about them. -A while back, you remember. Figuratively speaking, game's called." - -"Game--" - -"Yes, yes, yes! Go to the bat. I mean, get to work on your -statistics, and don't burn so much kindling getting your fire -started. Tell me about the knights." - -"I will well, and lightly will begin. So they two departed and -rode into a great forest. And--" - -"Great Scott!" - -You see, I recognized my mistake at once. I had set her works -a-going; it was my own fault; she would be thirty days getting down -to those facts. And she generally began without a preface and -finished without a result. If you interrupted her she would either -go right along without noticing, or answer with a couple of words, -and go back and say the sentence over again. So, interruptions -only did harm; and yet I had to interrupt, and interrupt pretty -frequently, too, in order to save my life; a person would die if -he let her monotony drip on him right along all day. - -"Great Scott!" I said in my distress. She went right back and -began over again: - -"So they two departed and rode into a great forest. And--" - -"_Which_ two?" - -"Sir Gawaine and Sir Uwaine. And so they came to an abbey of monks, -and there were well lodged. So on the morn they heard their masses -in the abbey, and so they rode forth till they came to a great -forest; then was Sir Gawaine ware in a valley by a turret, of -twelve fair damsels, and two knights armed on great horses, and -the damsels went to and fro by a tree. And then was Sir Gawaine -ware how there hung a white shield on that tree, and ever as the -damsels came by it they spit upon it, and some threw mire upon -the shield--" - -"Now, if I hadn't seen the like myself in this country, Sandy, -I wouldn't believe it. But I've seen it, and I can just see those -creatures now, parading before that shield and acting like that. -The women here do certainly act like all possessed. Yes, and -I mean your best, too, society's very choicest brands. The humblest -hello-girl along ten thousand miles of wire could teach gentleness, -patience, modesty, manners, to the highest duchess in Arthur's land." - -"Hello-girl?" - -"Yes, but don't you ask me to explain; it's a new kind of a girl; -they don't have them here; one often speaks sharply to them when -they are not the least in fault, and he can't get over feeling -sorry for it and ashamed of himself in thirteen hundred years, -it's such shabby mean conduct and so unprovoked; the fact is, -no gentleman ever does it--though I--well, I myself, if I've got -to confess--" - -"Peradventure she--" - -"Never mind her; never mind her; I tell you I couldn't ever explain -her so you would understand." - -"Even so be it, sith ye are so minded. Then Sir Gawaine and -Sir Uwaine went and saluted them, and asked them why they did that -despite to the shield. Sirs, said the damsels, we shall tell you. -There is a knight in this country that owneth this white shield, -and he is a passing good man of his hands, but he hateth all -ladies and gentlewomen, and therefore we do all this despite to -the shield. I will say you, said Sir Gawaine, it beseemeth evil -a good knight to despise all ladies and gentlewomen, and peradventure -though he hate you he hath some cause, and peradventure he loveth -in some other places ladies and gentlewomen, and to be loved again, -and he such a man of prowess as ye speak of--" - -"Man of prowess--yes, that is the man to please them, Sandy. -Man of brains--that is a thing they never think of. Tom Sayers ---John Heenan--John L. Sullivan--pity but you could be here. You -would have your legs under the Round Table and a 'Sir' in front -of your names within the twenty-four hours; and you could bring -about a new distribution of the married princesses and duchesses -of the Court in another twenty-four. The fact is, it is just -a sort of polished-up court of Comanches, and there isn't a squaw -in it who doesn't stand ready at the dropping of a hat to desert -to the buck with the biggest string of scalps at his belt." - -"--and he be such a man of prowess as ye speak of, said Sir Gawaine. -Now, what is his name? Sir, said they, his name is Marhaus the -king's son of Ireland." - -"Son of the king of Ireland, you mean; the other form doesn't mean -anything. And look out and hold on tight, now, we must jump -this gully.... There, we are all right now. This horse belongs in -the circus; he is born before his time." - -"I know him well, said Sir Uwaine, he is a passing good knight as -any is on live." - -"_On live_. If you've got a fault in the world, Sandy, it is that -you are a shade too archaic. But it isn't any matter." - -"--for I saw him once proved at a justs where many knights were -gathered, and that time there might no man withstand him. Ah, said -Sir Gawaine, damsels, methinketh ye are to blame, for it is to -suppose he that hung that shield there will not be long therefrom, -and then may those knights match him on horseback, and that is -more your worship than thus; for I will abide no longer to see -a knight's shield dishonored. And therewith Sir Uwaine and -Sir Gawaine departed a little from them, and then were they ware -where Sir Marhaus came riding on a great horse straight toward -them. And when the twelve damsels saw Sir Marhaus they fled into -the turret as they were wild, so that some of them fell by the way. -Then the one of the knights of the tower dressed his shield, and -said on high, Sir Marhaus defend thee. And so they ran together -that the knight brake his spear on Marhaus, and Sir Marhaus smote -him so hard that he brake his neck and the horse's back--" - -"Well, that is just the trouble about this state of things, -it ruins so many horses." - -"That saw the other knight of the turret, and dressed him toward -Marhaus, and they went so eagerly together, that the knight of -the turret was soon smitten down, horse and man, stark dead--" - -"_Another_ horse gone; I tell you it is a custom that ought to be -broken up. I don't see how people with any feeling can applaud -and support it." - - . . . . - -"So these two knights came together with great random--" - -I saw that I had been asleep and missed a chapter, but I didn't -say anything. I judged that the Irish knight was in trouble with -the visitors by this time, and this turned out to be the case. - -"--that Sir Uwaine smote Sir Marhaus that his spear brast in pieces -on the shield, and Sir Marhaus smote him so sore that horse and -man he bare to the earth, and hurt Sir Uwaine on the left side--" - -"The truth is, Alisande, these archaics are a little _too_ simple; -the vocabulary is too limited, and so, by consequence, descriptions -suffer in the matter of variety; they run too much to level Saharas -of fact, and not enough to picturesque detail; this throws about -them a certain air of the monotonous; in fact the fights are all -alike: a couple of people come together with great random ---random is a good word, and so is exegesis, for that matter, and -so is holocaust, and defalcation, and usufruct and a hundred others, -but land! a body ought to discriminate--they come together with -great random, and a spear is brast, and one party brake his shield -and the other one goes down, horse and man, over his horse-tail -and brake his neck, and then the next candidate comes randoming in, -and brast _his_ spear, and the other man brast his shield, and down -_he_ goes, horse and man, over his horse-tail, and brake _his_ neck, -and then there's another elected, and another and another and still -another, till the material is all used up; and when you come to -figure up results, you can't tell one fight from another, nor who -whipped; and as a _picture_, of living, raging, roaring battle, -sho! why, it's pale and noiseless--just ghosts scuffling in a fog. -Dear me, what would this barren vocabulary get out of the mightiest -spectacle?--the burning of Rome in Nero's time, for instance? -Why, it would merely say, 'Town burned down; no insurance; boy -brast a window, fireman brake his neck!' Why, _that_ ain't a picture!" - -It was a good deal of a lecture, I thought, but it didn't disturb -Sandy, didn't turn a feather; her steam soared steadily up again, -the minute I took off the lid: - -"Then Sir Marhaus turned his horse and rode toward Gawaine with -his spear. And when Sir Gawaine saw that, he dressed his shield, -and they aventred their spears, and they came together with all -the might of their horses, that either knight smote other so hard -in the midst of their shields, but Sir Gawaine's spear brake--" - -"I knew it would." - ---"but Sir Marhaus's spear held; and therewith Sir Gawaine and -his horse rushed down to the earth--" - -"Just so--and brake his back." - ---"and lightly Sir Gawaine rose upon his feet and pulled out -his sword, and dressed him toward Sir Marhaus on foot, and therewith -either came unto other eagerly, and smote together with their -swords, that their shields flew in cantels, and they bruised their -helms and their hauberks, and wounded either other. But Sir Gawaine, -fro it passed nine of the clock, waxed by the space of three hours -ever stronger and stronger and thrice his might was increased. -All this espied Sir Marhaus, and had great wonder how his might -increased, and so they wounded other passing sore; and then when -it was come noon--" - -The pelting sing-song of it carried me forward to scenes and -sounds of my boyhood days: - -"N-e-e-ew Haven! ten minutes for refreshments--knductr'll strike -the gong-bell two minutes before train leaves--passengers for -the Shore line please take seats in the rear k'yar, this k'yar -don't go no furder--_ahh_-pls, _aw_-rnjz, b'_nan_ners, -_s-a-n-d_'ches, p--_op_-corn!" - ---"and waxed past noon and drew toward evensong. Sir Gawaine's -strength feebled and waxed passing faint, that unnethes he might -dure any longer, and Sir Marhaus was then bigger and bigger--" - -"Which strained his armor, of course; and yet little would one -of these people mind a small thing like that." - ---"and so, Sir Knight, said Sir Marhaus, I have well felt that -ye are a passing good knight, and a marvelous man of might as ever -I felt any, while it lasteth, and our quarrels are not great, and -therefore it were a pity to do you hurt, for I feel you are passing -feeble. Ah, said Sir Gawaine, gentle knight, ye say the word -that I should say. And therewith they took off their helms and -either kissed other, and there they swore together either to love -other as brethren--" - -But I lost the thread there, and dozed off to slumber, thinking -about what a pity it was that men with such superb strength ---strength enabling them to stand up cased in cruelly burdensome -iron and drenched with perspiration, and hack and batter and bang -each other for six hours on a stretch--should not have been born -at a time when they could put it to some useful purpose. Take -a jackass, for instance: a jackass has that kind of strength, and -puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to this world because -he is a jackass; but a nobleman is not valuable because he is -a jackass. It is a mixture that is always ineffectual, and should -never have been attempted in the first place. And yet, once you -start a mistake, the trouble is done and you never know what is -going to come of it. - -When I came to myself again and began to listen, I perceived that -I had lost another chapter, and that Alisande had wandered a long -way off with her people. - -"And so they rode and came into a deep valley full of stones, -and thereby they saw a fair stream of water; above thereby was -the head of the stream, a fair fountain, and three damsels sitting -thereby. In this country, said Sir Marhaus, came never knight -since it was christened, but he found strange adventures--" - -"This is not good form, Alisande. Sir Marhaus the king's son of -Ireland talks like all the rest; you ought to give him a brogue, -or at least a characteristic expletive; by this means one would -recognize him as soon as he spoke, without his ever being named. -It is a common literary device with the great authors. You should -make him say, 'In this country, be jabers, came never knight since -it was christened, but he found strange adventures, be jabers.' -You see how much better that sounds." - ---"came never knight but he found strange adventures, be jabers. -Of a truth it doth indeed, fair lord, albeit 'tis passing hard -to say, though peradventure that will not tarry but better speed -with usage. And then they rode to the damsels, and either saluted -other, and the eldest had a garland of gold about her head, and -she was threescore winter of age or more--" - -"The _damsel_ was?" - -"Even so, dear lord--and her hair was white under the garland--" - -"Celluloid teeth, nine dollars a set, as like as not--the loose-fit -kind, that go up and down like a portcullis when you eat, and -fall out when you laugh." - -"The second damsel was of thirty winter of age, with a circlet of -gold about her head. The third damsel was but fifteen year of age--" - -Billows of thought came rolling over my soul, and the voice faded -out of my hearing! - -Fifteen! Break--my heart! oh, my lost darling! Just her age -who was so gentle, and lovely, and all the world to me, and whom -I shall never see again! How the thought of her carries me back -over wide seas of memory to a vague dim time, a happy time, so many, -many centuries hence, when I used to wake in the soft summer -mornings, out of sweet dreams of her, and say "Hello, Central!" -just to hear her dear voice come melting back to me with a -"Hello, Hank!" that was music of the spheres to my enchanted ear. -She got three dollars a week, but she was worth it. - -I could not follow Alisande's further explanation of who our -captured knights were, now--I mean in case she should ever get -to explaining who they were. My interest was gone, my thoughts -were far away, and sad. By fitful glimpses of the drifting tale, -caught here and there and now and then, I merely noted in a vague -way that each of these three knights took one of these three damsels -up behind him on his horse, and one rode north, another east, -the other south, to seek adventures, and meet again and lie, after -year and day. Year and day--and without baggage. It was of -a piece with the general simplicity of the country. - -The sun was now setting. It was about three in the afternoon when -Alisande had begun to tell me who the cowboys were; so she had made -pretty good progress with it--for her. She would arrive some time -or other, no doubt, but she was not a person who could be hurried. - -We were approaching a castle which stood on high ground; a huge, -strong, venerable structure, whose gray towers and battlements were -charmingly draped with ivy, and whose whole majestic mass was -drenched with splendors flung from the sinking sun. It was the -largest castle we had seen, and so I thought it might be the one -we were after, but Sandy said no. She did not know who owned it; -she said she had passed it without calling, when she went down -to Camelot. - - - -CHAPTER XVI - -MORGAN LE FAY - -If knights errant were to be believed, not all castles were desirable -places to seek hospitality in. As a matter of fact, knights errant -were _not_ persons to be believed--that is, measured by modern -standards of veracity; yet, measured by the standards of their own -time, and scaled accordingly, you got the truth. It was very -simple: you discounted a statement ninety-seven per cent; the rest -was fact. Now after making this allowance, the truth remained -that if I could find out something about a castle before ringing -the door-bell--I mean hailing the warders--it was the sensible -thing to do. So I was pleased when I saw in the distance a horseman -making the bottom turn of the road that wound down from this castle. - -As we approached each other, I saw that he wore a plumed helmet, -and seemed to be otherwise clothed in steel, but bore a curious -addition also--a stiff square garment like a herald's tabard. -However, I had to smile at my own forgetfulness when I got nearer -and read this sign on his tabard: - - "Persimmon's Soap -- All the Prime-Donna Use It." - -That was a little idea of my own, and had several wholesome purposes -in view toward the civilizing and uplifting of this nation. In the -first place, it was a furtive, underhand blow at this nonsense -of knight errantry, though nobody suspected that but me. I had -started a number of these people out--the bravest knights I could -get--each sandwiched between bulletin-boards bearing one device -or another, and I judged that by and by when they got to be numerous -enough they would begin to look ridiculous; and then, even the -steel-clad ass that _hadn't_ any board would himself begin to look -ridiculous because he was out of the fashion. - -Secondly, these missionaries would gradually, and without creating -suspicion or exciting alarm, introduce a rudimentary cleanliness -among the nobility, and from them it would work down to the people, -if the priests could be kept quiet. This would undermine the Church. -I mean would be a step toward that. Next, education--next, freedom ---and then she would begin to crumble. It being my conviction that -any Established Church is an established crime, an established -slave-pen, I had no scruples, but was willing to assail it in -any way or with any weapon that promised to hurt it. Why, in my -own former day--in remote centuries not yet stirring in the womb -of time--there were old Englishmen who imagined that they had been -born in a free country: a "free" country with the Corporation Act -and the Test still in force in it--timbers propped against men's -liberties and dishonored consciences to shore up an Established -Anachronism with. - -My missionaries were taught to spell out the gilt signs on their -tabards--the showy gilding was a neat idea, I could have got the -king to wear a bulletin-board for the sake of that barbaric -splendor--they were to spell out these signs and then explain to -the lords and ladies what soap was; and if the lords and ladies -were afraid of it, get them to try it on a dog. The missionary's -next move was to get the family together and try it on himself; -he was to stop at no experiment, however desperate, that could -convince the nobility that soap was harmless; if any final doubt -remained, he must catch a hermit--the woods were full of them; -saints they called themselves, and saints they were believed to be. -They were unspeakably holy, and worked miracles, and everybody -stood in awe of them. If a hermit could survive a wash, and that -failed to convince a duke, give him up, let him alone. - -Whenever my missionaries overcame a knight errant on the road -they washed him, and when he got well they swore him to go and -get a bulletin-board and disseminate soap and civilization the rest -of his days. As a consequence the workers in the field were -increasing by degrees, and the reform was steadily spreading. -My soap factory felt the strain early. At first I had only two -hands; but before I had left home I was already employing fifteen, -and running night and day; and the atmospheric result was getting -so pronounced that the king went sort of fainting and gasping -around and said he did not believe he could stand it much longer, -and Sir Launcelot got so that he did hardly anything but walk up -and down the roof and swear, although I told him it was worse up -there than anywhere else, but he said he wanted plenty of air; and -he was always complaining that a palace was no place for a soap -factory anyway, and said if a man was to start one in his house -he would be damned if he wouldn't strangle him. There were ladies -present, too, but much these people ever cared for that; they would -swear before children, if the wind was their way when the factory -was going. - -This missionary knight's name was La Cote Male Taile, and he said -that this castle was the abode of Morgan le Fay, sister of -King Arthur, and wife of King Uriens, monarch of a realm about -as big as the District of Columbia--you could stand in the middle -of it and throw bricks into the next kingdom. "Kings" and "Kingdoms" -were as thick in Britain as they had been in little Palestine in -Joshua's time, when people had to sleep with their knees pulled up -because they couldn't stretch out without a passport. - -La Cote was much depressed, for he had scored here the worst -failure of his campaign. He had not worked off a cake; yet he had -tried all the tricks of the trade, even to the washing of a hermit; -but the hermit died. This was, indeed, a bad failure, for this -animal would now be dubbed a martyr, and would take his place -among the saints of the Roman calendar. Thus made he his moan, -this poor Sir La Cote Male Taile, and sorrowed passing sore. And -so my heart bled for him, and I was moved to comfort and stay him. -Wherefore I said: - -"Forbear to grieve, fair knight, for this is not a defeat. We have -brains, you and I; and for such as have brains there are no defeats, -but only victories. Observe how we will turn this seeming disaster -into an advertisement; an advertisement for our soap; and the -biggest one, to draw, that was ever thought of; an advertisement -that will transform that Mount Washington defeat into a Matterhorn -victory. We will put on your bulletin-board, '_Patronized by the -elect_.' How does that strike you?" - -"Verily, it is wonderly bethought!" - -"Well, a body is bound to admit that for just a modest little -one-line ad, it's a corker." - -So the poor colporteur's griefs vanished away. He was a brave -fellow, and had done mighty feats of arms in his time. His chief -celebrity rested upon the events of an excursion like this one -of mine, which he had once made with a damsel named Maledisant, -who was as handy with her tongue as was Sandy, though in a different -way, for her tongue churned forth only railings and insult, whereas -Sandy's music was of a kindlier sort. I knew his story well, and so -I knew how to interpret the compassion that was in his face when he -bade me farewell. He supposed I was having a bitter hard time of it. - -Sandy and I discussed his story, as we rode along, and she said -that La Cote's bad luck had begun with the very beginning of that -trip; for the king's fool had overthrown him on the first day, -and in such cases it was customary for the girl to desert to the -conqueror, but Maledisant didn't do it; and also persisted afterward -in sticking to him, after all his defeats. But, said I, suppose -the victor should decline to accept his spoil? She said that that -wouldn't answer--he must. He couldn't decline; it wouldn't be -regular. I made a note of that. If Sandy's music got to be too -burdensome, some time, I would let a knight defeat me, on the chance -that she would desert to him. - -In due time we were challenged by the warders, from the castle -walls, and after a parley admitted. I have nothing pleasant to -tell about that visit. But it was not a disappointment, for I knew -Mrs. le Fay by reputation, and was not expecting anything pleasant. -She was held in awe by the whole realm, for she had made everybody -believe she was a great sorceress. All her ways were wicked, all -her instincts devilish. She was loaded to the eyelids with cold -malice. All her history was black with crime; and among her crimes -murder was common. I was most curious to see her; as curious as -I could have been to see Satan. To my surprise she was beautiful; -black thoughts had failed to make her expression repulsive, age -had failed to wrinkle her satin skin or mar its bloomy freshness. -She could have passed for old Uriens' granddaughter, she could -have been mistaken for sister to her own son. - -As soon as we were fairly within the castle gates we were ordered -into her presence. King Uriens was there, a kind-faced old man -with a subdued look; and also the son, Sir Uwaine le Blanchemains, -in whom I was, of course, interested on account of the tradition -that he had once done battle with thirty knights, and also on -account of his trip with Sir Gawaine and Sir Marhaus, which Sandy -had been aging me with. But Morgan was the main attraction, the -conspicuous personality here; she was head chief of this household, -that was plain. She caused us to be seated, and then she began, -with all manner of pretty graces and graciousnesses, to ask me -questions. Dear me, it was like a bird or a flute, or something, -talking. I felt persuaded that this woman must have been -misrepresented, lied about. She trilled along, and trilled along, -and presently a handsome young page, clothed like the rainbow, and -as easy and undulatory of movement as a wave, came with something -on a golden salver, and, kneeling to present it to her, overdid -his graces and lost his balance, and so fell lightly against her -knee. She slipped a dirk into him in as matter-of-course a way as -another person would have harpooned a rat! - -Poor child! he slumped to the floor, twisted his silken limbs in -one great straining contortion of pain, and was dead. Out of the -old king was wrung an involuntary "O-h!" of compassion. The look -he got, made him cut it suddenly short and not put any more hyphens -in it. Sir Uwaine, at a sign from his mother, went to the anteroom -and called some servants, and meanwhile madame went rippling sweetly -along with her talk. - -I saw that she was a good housekeeper, for while she talked she -kept a corner of her eye on the servants to see that they made -no balks in handling the body and getting it out; when they came -with fresh clean towels, she sent back for the other kind; and -when they had finished wiping the floor and were going, she indicated -a crimson fleck the size of a tear which their duller eyes had -overlooked. It was plain to me that La Cote Male Taile had failed -to see the mistress of the house. Often, how louder and clearer -than any tongue, does dumb circumstantial evidence speak. - -Morgan le Fay rippled along as musically as ever. Marvelous woman. -And what a glance she had: when it fell in reproof upon those -servants, they shrunk and quailed as timid people do when the -lightning flashes out of a cloud. I could have got the habit -myself. It was the same with that poor old Brer Uriens; he was -always on the ragged edge of apprehension; she could not even turn -toward him but he winced. - -In the midst of the talk I let drop a complimentary word about -King Arthur, forgetting for the moment how this woman hated her -brother. That one little compliment was enough. She clouded up -like storm; she called for her guards, and said: - -"Hale me these varlets to the dungeons." - -That struck cold on my ears, for her dungeons had a reputation. -Nothing occurred to me to say--or do. But not so with Sandy. -As the guard laid a hand upon me, she piped up with the tranquilest -confidence, and said: - -"God's wounds, dost thou covet destruction, thou maniac? It is -The Boss!" - -Now what a happy idea that was!--and so simple; yet it would never -have occurred to me. I was born modest; not all over, but in spots; -and this was one of the spots. - -The effect upon madame was electrical. It cleared her countenance -and brought back her smiles and all her persuasive graces and -blandishments; but nevertheless she was not able to entirely cover up -with them the fact that she was in a ghastly fright. She said: - -"La, but do list to thine handmaid! as if one gifted with powers -like to mine might say the thing which I have said unto one who -has vanquished Merlin, and not be jesting. By mine enchantments -I foresaw your coming, and by them I knew you when you entered -here. I did but play this little jest with hope to surprise you -into some display of your art, as not doubting you would blast -the guards with occult fires, consuming them to ashes on the spot, -a marvel much beyond mine own ability, yet one which I have long -been childishly curious to see." - -The guards were less curious, and got out as soon as they got permission. - - - -CHAPTER XVII - -A ROYAL BANQUET - -Madame, seeing me pacific and unresentful, no doubt judged that -I was deceived by her excuse; for her fright dissolved away, and -she was soon so importunate to have me give an exhibition and kill -somebody, that the thing grew to be embarrassing. However, to my -relief she was presently interrupted by the call to prayers. I will -say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, -rapacious, and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and -enthusiastically religious. Nothing could divert them from the -regular and faithful performance of the pieties enjoined by the -Church. More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his -enemy at a disadvantage, stop to pray before cutting his throat; -more than once I had seen a noble, after ambushing and despatching -his enemy, retire to the nearest wayside shrine and humbly give -thanks, without even waiting to rob the body. There was to be -nothing finer or sweeter in the life of even Benvenuto Cellini, -that rough-hewn saint, ten centuries later. All the nobles of -Britain, with their families, attended divine service morning and -night daily, in their private chapels, and even the worst of them -had family worship five or six times a day besides. The credit -of this belonged entirely to the Church. Although I was no friend -to that Catholic Church, I was obliged to admit this. And often, -in spite of me, I found myself saying, "What would this country -be without the Church?" - -After prayers we had dinner in a great banqueting hall which was -lighted by hundreds of grease-jets, and everything was as fine and -lavish and rudely splendid as might become the royal degree of the -hosts. At the head of the hall, on a dais, was the table of the -king, queen, and their son, Prince Uwaine. Stretching down the hall -from this, was the general table, on the floor. At this, above -the salt, sat the visiting nobles and the grown members of their -families, of both sexes,--the resident Court, in effect--sixty-one -persons; below the salt sat minor officers of the household, with -their principal subordinates: altogether a hundred and eighteen -persons sitting, and about as many liveried servants standing -behind their chairs, or serving in one capacity or another. It was -a very fine show. In a gallery a band with cymbals, horns, harps, -and other horrors, opened the proceedings with what seemed to be -the crude first-draft or original agony of the wail known to later -centuries as "In the Sweet Bye and Bye." It was new, and ought -to have been rehearsed a little more. For some reason or other -the queen had the composer hanged, after dinner. - -After this music, the priest who stood behind the royal table said -a noble long grace in ostensible Latin. Then the battalion of -waiters broke away from their posts, and darted, rushed, flew, -fetched and carried, and the mighty feeding began; no words -anywhere, but absorbing attention to business. The rows of chops -opened and shut in vast unison, and the sound of it was like to -the muffled burr of subterranean machinery. - -The havoc continued an hour and a half, and unimaginable was the -destruction of substantials. Of the chief feature of the feast ---the huge wild boar that lay stretched out so portly and imposing -at the start--nothing was left but the semblance of a hoop-skirt; -and he was but the type and symbol of what had happened to all -the other dishes. - -With the pastries and so on, the heavy drinking began--and the talk. -Gallon after gallon of wine and mead disappeared, and everybody -got comfortable, then happy, then sparklingly joyous--both sexes, ---and by and by pretty noisy. Men told anecdotes that were terrific -to hear, but nobody blushed; and when the nub was sprung, the -assemblage let go with a horse-laugh that shook the fortress. -Ladies answered back with historiettes that would almost have made -Queen Margaret of Navarre or even the great Elizabeth of England -hide behind a handkerchief, but nobody hid here, but only laughed ---howled, you may say. In pretty much all of these dreadful stories, -ecclesiastics were the hardy heroes, but that didn't worry the -chaplain any, he had his laugh with the rest; more than that, upon -invitation he roared out a song which was of as daring a sort as -any that was sung that night. - -By midnight everybody was fagged out, and sore with laughing; and, -as a rule, drunk: some weepingly, some affectionately, some -hilariously, some quarrelsomely, some dead and under the table. -Of the ladies, the worst spectacle was a lovely young duchess, whose -wedding-eve this was; and indeed she was a spectacle, sure enough. -Just as she was she could have sat in advance for the portrait of the -young daughter of the Regent d'Orleans, at the famous dinner whence -she was carried, foul-mouthed, intoxicated, and helpless, to her bed, -in the lost and lamented days of the Ancient Regime. - -Suddenly, even while the priest was lifting his hands, and all -conscious heads were bowed in reverent expectation of the coming -blessing, there appeared under the arch of the far-off door at -the bottom of the hall an old and bent and white-haired lady, -leaning upon a crutch-stick; and she lifted the stick and pointed it -toward the queen and cried out: - -"The wrath and curse of God fall upon you, woman without pity, -who have slain mine innocent grandchild and made desolate this -old heart that had nor chick, nor friend nor stay nor comfort in -all this world but him!" - -Everybody crossed himself in a grisly fright, for a curse was an -awful thing to those people; but the queen rose up majestic, with -the death-light in her eye, and flung back this ruthless command: - -"Lay hands on her! To the stake with her!" - -The guards left their posts to obey. It was a shame; it was a -cruel thing to see. What could be done? Sandy gave me a look; -I knew she had another inspiration. I said: - -"Do what you choose." - -She was up and facing toward the queen in a moment. She indicated -me, and said: - -"Madame, _he_ saith this may not be. Recall the commandment, or he -will dissolve the castle and it shall vanish away like the instable -fabric of a dream!" - -Confound it, what a crazy contract to pledge a person to! What if -the queen-- - -But my consternation subsided there, and my panic passed off; -for the queen, all in a collapse, made no show of resistance but -gave a countermanding sign and sunk into her seat. When she reached -it she was sober. So were many of the others. The assemblage rose, -whiffed ceremony to the winds, and rushed for the door like a mob; -overturning chairs, smashing crockery, tugging, struggling, -shouldering, crowding--anything to get out before I should change -my mind and puff the castle into the measureless dim vacancies of -space. Well, well, well, they _were_ a superstitious lot. It is -all a body can do to conceive of it. - -The poor queen was so scared and humbled that she was even afraid -to hang the composer without first consulting me. I was very sorry -for her--indeed, any one would have been, for she was really -suffering; so I was willing to do anything that was reasonable, and -had no desire to carry things to wanton extremities. I therefore -considered the matter thoughtfully, and ended by having the -musicians ordered into our presence to play that Sweet Bye and -Bye again, which they did. Then I saw that she was right, and -gave her permission to hang the whole band. This little relaxation -of sternness had a good effect upon the queen. A statesman gains -little by the arbitrary exercise of iron-clad authority upon all -occasions that offer, for this wounds the just pride of his -subordinates, and thus tends to undermine his strength. A little -concession, now and then, where it can do no harm, is the wiser policy. - -Now that the queen was at ease in her mind once more, and measurably -happy, her wine naturally began to assert itself again, and it got -a little the start of her. I mean it set her music going--her silver -bell of a tongue. Dear me, she was a master talker. It would not -become me to suggest that it was pretty late and that I was a tired -man and very sleepy. I wished I had gone off to bed when I had -the chance. Now I must stick it out; there was no other way. So -she tinkled along and along, in the otherwise profound and ghostly -hush of the sleeping castle, until by and by there came, as if -from deep down under us, a far-away sound, as of a muffled shriek ---with an expression of agony about it that made my flesh crawl. -The queen stopped, and her eyes lighted with pleasure; she tilted -her graceful head as a bird does when it listens. The sound bored -its way up through the stillness again. - -"What is it?" I said. - -"It is truly a stubborn soul, and endureth long. It is many hours now." - -"Endureth what?" - -"The rack. Come--ye shall see a blithe sight. An he yield not -his secret now, ye shall see him torn asunder." - -What a silky smooth hellion she was; and so composed and serene, -when the cords all down my legs were hurting in sympathy with that -man's pain. Conducted by mailed guards bearing flaring torches, -we tramped along echoing corridors, and down stone stairways dank -and dripping, and smelling of mould and ages of imprisoned night ---a chill, uncanny journey and a long one, and not made the shorter -or the cheerier by the sorceress's talk, which was about this -sufferer and his crime. He had been accused by an anonymous -informer, of having killed a stag in the royal preserves. I said: - -"Anonymous testimony isn't just the right thing, your Highness. -It were fairer to confront the accused with the accuser." - -"I had not thought of that, it being but of small consequence. -But an I would, I could not, for that the accuser came masked by -night, and told the forester, and straightway got him hence again, -and so the forester knoweth him not." - -"Then is this Unknown the only person who saw the stag killed?" - -"Marry, _no_ man _saw_ the killing, but this Unknown saw this hardy -wretch near to the spot where the stag lay, and came with right -loyal zeal and betrayed him to the forester." - -"So the Unknown was near the dead stag, too? Isn't it just possible -that he did the killing himself? His loyal zeal--in a mask--looks -just a shade suspicious. But what is your highness's idea for -racking the prisoner? Where is the profit?" - -"He will not confess, else; and then were his soul lost. For his -crime his life is forfeited by the law--and of a surety will I see -that he payeth it!--but it were peril to my own soul to let him -die unconfessed and unabsolved. Nay, I were a fool to fling me -into hell for _his_ accommodation." - -"But, your Highness, suppose he has nothing to confess?" - -"As to that, we shall see, anon. An I rack him to death and he -confess not, it will peradventure show that he had indeed naught -to confess--ye will grant that that is sooth? Then shall I not be -damned for an unconfessed man that had naught to confess ---wherefore, I shall be safe." - -It was the stubborn unreasoning of the time. It was useless to -argue with her. Arguments have no chance against petrified -training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff. And -her training was everybody's. The brightest intellect in the land -would not have been able to see that her position was defective. - -As we entered the rack-cell I caught a picture that will not go -from me; I wish it would. A native young giant of thirty or -thereabouts lay stretched upon the frame on his back, with his -wrists and ankles tied to ropes which led over windlasses at either -end. There was no color in him; his features were contorted and -set, and sweat-drops stood upon his forehead. A priest bent over -him on each side; the executioner stood by; guards were on duty; -smoking torches stood in sockets along the walls; in a corner -crouched a poor young creature, her face drawn with anguish, -a half-wild and hunted look in her eyes, and in her lap lay a little -child asleep. Just as we stepped across the threshold the -executioner gave his machine a slight turn, which wrung a cry -from both the prisoner and the woman; but I shouted, and the -executioner released the strain without waiting to see who spoke. -I could not let this horror go on; it would have killed me to -see it. I asked the queen to let me clear the place and speak -to the prisoner privately; and when she was going to object I spoke -in a low voice and said I did not want to make a scene before -her servants, but I must have my way; for I was King Arthur's -representative, and was speaking in his name. She saw she had -to yield. I asked her to indorse me to these people, and then -leave me. It was not pleasant for her, but she took the pill; -and even went further than I was meaning to require. I only wanted -the backing of her own authority; but she said: - -"Ye will do in all things as this lord shall command. It is The Boss." - -It was certainly a good word to conjure with: you could see it -by the squirming of these rats. The queen's guards fell into line, -and she and they marched away, with their torch-bearers, and woke -the echoes of the cavernous tunnels with the measured beat of their -retreating footfalls. I had the prisoner taken from the rack and -placed upon his bed, and medicaments applied to his hurts, and -wine given him to drink. The woman crept near and looked on, -eagerly, lovingly, but timorously,--like one who fears a repulse; -indeed, she tried furtively to touch the man's forehead, and jumped -back, the picture of fright, when I turned unconsciously toward -her. It was pitiful to see. - -"Lord," I said, "stroke him, lass, if you want to. Do anything -you're a mind to; don't mind me." - -Why, her eyes were as grateful as an animal's, when you do it -a kindness that it understands. The baby was out of her way and -she had her cheek against the man's in a minute and her hands -fondling his hair, and her happy tears running down. The man -revived and caressed his wife with his eyes, which was all he -could do. I judged I might clear the den, now, and I did; cleared -it of all but the family and myself. Then I said: - -"Now, my friend, tell me your side of this matter; I know -the other side." - -The man moved his head in sign of refusal. But the woman looked -pleased--as it seemed to me--pleased with my suggestion. I went on-- - -"You know of me?" - -"Yes. All do, in Arthur's realms." - -"If my reputation has come to you right and straight, you should -not be afraid to speak." - -The woman broke in, eagerly: - -"Ah, fair my lord, do thou persuade him! Thou canst an thou wilt. -Ah, he suffereth so; and it is for me--for _me_! And how can I bear it? -I would I might see him die--a sweet, swift death; oh, my Hugo, -I cannot bear this one!" - -And she fell to sobbing and grovelling about my feet, and still -imploring. Imploring what? The man's death? I could not quite -get the bearings of the thing. But Hugo interrupted her and said: - -"Peace! Ye wit not what ye ask. Shall I starve whom I love, -to win a gentle death? I wend thou knewest me better." - -"Well," I said, "I can't quite make this out. It is a puzzle. Now--" - -"Ah, dear my lord, an ye will but persuade him! Consider how -these his tortures wound me! Oh, and he will not speak!--whereas, -the healing, the solace that lie in a blessed swift death--" - -"What _are_ you maundering about? He's going out from here a free -man and whole--he's not going to die." - -The man's white face lit up, and the woman flung herself at me -in a most surprising explosion of joy, and cried out: - -"He is saved!--for it is the king's word by the mouth of the king's -servant--Arthur, the king whose word is gold!" - -"Well, then you do believe I can be trusted, after all. Why -didn't you before?" - -"Who doubted? Not I, indeed; and not she." - -"Well, why wouldn't you tell me your story, then?" - -"Ye had made no promise; else had it been otherwise." - -"I see, I see.... And yet I believe I don't quite see, after all. -You stood the torture and refused to confess; which shows plain -enough to even the dullest understanding that you had nothing -to confess--" - -"I, my lord? How so? It was I that killed the deer!" - -"You _did_? Oh, dear, this is the most mixed-up business that ever--" - -"Dear lord, I begged him on my knees to confess, but--" - -"You _did_! It gets thicker and thicker. What did you want him -to do that for?" - -"Sith it would bring him a quick death and save him all this -cruel pain." - -"Well--yes, there is reason in that. But _he_ didn't want the -quick death." - -"He? Why, of a surety he _did_." - -"Well, then, why in the world _didn't_ he confess?" - -"Ah, sweet sir, and leave my wife and chick without bread and shelter?" - -"Oh, heart of gold, now I see it! The bitter law takes the convicted -man's estate and beggars his widow and his orphans. They could -torture you to death, but without conviction or confession they -could not rob your wife and baby. You stood by them like a man; -and _you_--true wife and the woman that you are--you would have -bought him release from torture at cost to yourself of slow -starvation and death--well, it humbles a body to think what your -sex can do when it comes to self-sacrifice. I'll book you both -for my colony; you'll like it there; it's a Factory where I'm going -to turn groping and grubbing automata into _men_." - - - -CHAPTER XVIII - -IN THE QUEEN'S DUNGEONS - -Well, I arranged all that; and I had the man sent to his home. -I had a great desire to rack the executioner; not because he was -a good, painstaking and paingiving official,--for surely it was -not to his discredit that he performed his functions well--but to -pay him back for wantonly cuffing and otherwise distressing that -young woman. The priests told me about this, and were generously -hot to have him punished. Something of this disagreeable sort -was turning up every now and then. I mean, episodes that showed -that not all priests were frauds and self-seekers, but that many, -even the great majority, of these that were down on the ground -among the common people, were sincere and right-hearted, and -devoted to the alleviation of human troubles and sufferings. -Well, it was a thing which could not be helped, so I seldom fretted -about it, and never many minutes at a time; it has never been my -way to bother much about things which you can't cure. But I did -not like it, for it was just the sort of thing to keep people -reconciled to an Established Church. We _must_ have a religion ---it goes without saying--but my idea is, to have it cut up into -forty free sects, so that they will police each other, as had been -the case in the United States in my time. Concentration of power -in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is -only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, -cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and -does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered -condition. That wasn't law; it wasn't gospel: it was only -an opinion--my opinion, and I was only a man, one man: so it wasn't -worth any more than the pope's--or any less, for that matter. - -Well, I couldn't rack the executioner, neither would I overlook -the just complaint of the priests. The man must be punished -somehow or other, so I degraded him from his office and made him -leader of the band--the new one that was to be started. He begged -hard, and said he couldn't play--a plausible excuse, but too thin; -there wasn't a musician in the country that could. - -The queen was a good deal outraged, next morning when she found -she was going to have neither Hugo's life nor his property. But -I told her she must bear this cross; that while by law and custom -she certainly was entitled to both the man's life and his property, -there were extenuating circumstances, and so in Arthur the king's -name I had pardoned him. The deer was ravaging the man's fields, -and he had killed it in sudden passion, and not for gain; and he -had carried it into the royal forest in the hope that that might make -detection of the misdoer impossible. Confound her, I couldn't -make her see that sudden passion is an extenuating circumstance -in the killing of venison--or of a person--so I gave it up and let -her sulk it out. I _did_ think I was going to make her see it by -remarking that her own sudden passion in the case of the page -modified that crime. - -"Crime!" she exclaimed. "How thou talkest! Crime, forsooth! -Man, I am going to _pay_ for him!" - -Oh, it was no use to waste sense on her. Training--training is -everything; training is all there is _to_ a person. We speak of -nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we -call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. -We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are -transmitted to us, trained into us. All that is original in us, -and therefore fairly creditable or discreditable to us, can be -covered up and hidden by the point of a cambric needle, all the -rest being atoms contributed by, and inherited from, a procession -of ancestors that stretches back a billion years to the Adam-clam -or grasshopper or monkey from whom our race has been so tediously -and ostentatiously and unprofitably developed. And as for me, -all that I think about in this plodding sad pilgrimage, this -pathetic drift between the eternities, is to look out and humbly -live a pure and high and blameless life, and save that one -microscopic atom in me that is truly _me_: the rest may land in -Sheol and welcome for all I care. - -No, confound her, her intellect was good, she had brains enough, -but her training made her an ass--that is, from a many-centuries-later -point of view. To kill the page was no crime--it was her right; -and upon her right she stood, serenely and unconscious of offense. -She was a result of generations of training in the unexamined and -unassailed belief that the law which permitted her to kill a subject -when she chose was a perfectly right and righteous one. - -Well, we must give even Satan his due. She deserved a compliment -for one thing; and I tried to pay it, but the words stuck in my -throat. She had a right to kill the boy, but she was in no wise -obliged to pay for him. That was law for some other people, but -not for her. She knew quite well that she was doing a large and -generous thing to pay for that lad, and that I ought in common -fairness to come out with something handsome about it, but I -couldn't--my mouth refused. I couldn't help seeing, in my fancy, -that poor old grandma with the broken heart, and that fair young -creature lying butchered, his little silken pomps and vanities -laced with his golden blood. How could she _pay_ for him! _Whom_ -could she pay? And so, well knowing that this woman, trained -as she had been, deserved praise, even adulation, I was yet not -able to utter it, trained as I had been. The best I could do was -to fish up a compliment from outside, so to speak--and the pity -of it was, that it was true: - -"Madame, your people will adore you for this." - -Quite true, but I meant to hang her for it some day if I lived. -Some of those laws were too bad, altogether too bad. A master -might kill his slave for nothing--for mere spite, malice, or -to pass the time--just as we have seen that the crowned head could -do it with _his_ slave, that is to say, anybody. A gentleman could -kill a free commoner, and pay for him--cash or garden-truck. -A noble could kill a noble without expense, as far as the law was -concerned, but reprisals in kind were to be expected. _Any_body -could kill _some_body, except the commoner and the slave; these had -no privileges. If they killed, it was murder, and the law wouldn't -stand murder. It made short work of the experimenter--and of -his family, too, if he murdered somebody who belonged up among -the ornamental ranks. If a commoner gave a noble even so much -as a Damiens-scratch which didn't kill or even hurt, he got Damiens' -dose for it just the same; they pulled him to rags and tatters -with horses, and all the world came to see the show, and crack -jokes, and have a good time; and some of the performances of the -best people present were as tough, and as properly unprintable, -as any that have been printed by the pleasant Casanova in his -chapter about the dismemberment of Louis XV's poor awkward enemy. - -I had had enough of this grisly place by this time, and wanted -to leave, but I couldn't, because I had something on my mind that -my conscience kept prodding me about, and wouldn't let me forget. -If I had the remaking of man, he wouldn't have any conscience. -It is one of the most disagreeable things connected with a person; -and although it certainly does a great deal of good, it cannot -be said to pay, in the long run; it would be much better to have -less good and more comfort. Still, this is only my opinion, and -I am only one man; others, with less experience, may think -differently. They have a right to their view. I only stand -to this: I have noticed my conscience for many years, and I know -it is more trouble and bother to me than anything else I started -with. I suppose that in the beginning I prized it, because we -prize anything that is ours; and yet how foolish it was to think so. -If we look at it in another way, we see how absurd it is: if I had -an anvil in me would I prize it? Of course not. And yet when you -come to think, there is no real difference between a conscience -and an anvil--I mean for comfort. I have noticed it a thousand -times. And you could dissolve an anvil with acids, when you -couldn't stand it any longer; but there isn't any way that you can -work off a conscience--at least so it will stay worked off; not -that I know of, anyway. - -There was something I wanted to do before leaving, but it was -a disagreeable matter, and I hated to go at it. Well, it bothered -me all the morning. I could have mentioned it to the old king, -but what would be the use?--he was but an extinct volcano; he had -been active in his time, but his fire was out, this good while, -he was only a stately ash-pile now; gentle enough, and kindly -enough for my purpose, without doubt, but not usable. He was -nothing, this so-called king: the queen was the only power there. -And she was a Vesuvius. As a favor, she might consent to warm -a flock of sparrows for you, but then she might take that very -opportunity to turn herself loose and bury a city. However, -I reflected that as often as any other way, when you are expecting -the worst, you get something that is not so bad, after all. - -So I braced up and placed my matter before her royal Highness. -I said I had been having a general jail-delivery at Camelot and -among neighboring castles, and with her permission I would like -to examine her collection, her bric-a-brac--that is to say, her -prisoners. She resisted; but I was expecting that. But she finally -consented. I was expecting that, too, but not so soon. That about -ended my discomfort. She called her guards and torches, and -we went down into the dungeons. These were down under the castle's -foundations, and mainly were small cells hollowed out of the living -rock. Some of these cells had no light at all. In one of them was -a woman, in foul rags, who sat on the ground, and would not answer -a question or speak a word, but only looked up at us once or twice, -through a cobweb of tangled hair, as if to see what casual thing -it might be that was disturbing with sound and light the meaningless -dull dream that was become her life; after that, she sat bowed, -with her dirt-caked fingers idly interlocked in her lap, and gave -no further sign. This poor rack of bones was a woman of middle -age, apparently; but only apparently; she had been there nine -years, and was eighteen when she entered. She was a commoner, -and had been sent here on her bridal night by Sir Breuse Sance Pite, -a neighboring lord whose vassal her father was, and to which said -lord she had refused what has since been called le droit du -seigneur, and, moreover, had opposed violence to violence and spilt -half a gill of his almost sacred blood. The young husband had -interfered at that point, believing the bride's life in danger, -and had flung the noble out into the midst of the humble and -trembling wedding guests, in the parlor, and left him there -astonished at this strange treatment, and implacably embittered -against both bride and groom. The said lord being cramped for -dungeon-room had asked the queen to accommodate his two criminals, -and here in her bastile they had been ever since; hither, indeed, -they had come before their crime was an hour old, and had never -seen each other since. Here they were, kenneled like toads in the -same rock; they had passed nine pitch dark years within fifty feet -of each other, yet neither knew whether the other was alive or not. -All the first years, their only question had been--asked with -beseechings and tears that might have moved stones, in time, -perhaps, but hearts are not stones: "Is he alive?" "Is she alive?" -But they had never got an answer; and at last that question was -not asked any more--or any other. - -I wanted to see the man, after hearing all this. He was thirty-four -years old, and looked sixty. He sat upon a squared block of -stone, with his head bent down, his forearms resting on his knees, -his long hair hanging like a fringe before his face, and he was -muttering to himself. He raised his chin and looked us slowly -over, in a listless dull way, blinking with the distress of the -torchlight, then dropped his head and fell to muttering again -and took no further notice of us. There were some pathetically -suggestive dumb witnesses present. On his wrists and ankles were -cicatrices, old smooth scars, and fastened to the stone on which -he sat was a chain with manacles and fetters attached; but this -apparatus lay idle on the ground, and was thick with rust. Chains -cease to be needed after the spirit has gone out of a prisoner. - -I could not rouse the man; so I said we would take him to her, -and see--to the bride who was the fairest thing in the earth to him, -once--roses, pearls, and dew made flesh, for him; a wonder-work, -the master-work of nature: with eyes like no other eyes, and voice -like no other voice, and a freshness, and lithe young grace, and -beauty, that belonged properly to the creatures of dreams--as he -thought--and to no other. The sight of her would set his stagnant -blood leaping; the sight of her-- - -But it was a disappointment. They sat together on the ground and -looked dimly wondering into each other's faces a while, with a -sort of weak animal curiosity; then forgot each other's presence, -and dropped their eyes, and you saw that they were away again and -wandering in some far land of dreams and shadows that we know -nothing about. - -I had them taken out and sent to their friends. The queen did not -like it much. Not that she felt any personal interest in the matter, -but she thought it disrespectful to Sir Breuse Sance Pite. However, -I assured her that if he found he couldn't stand it I would fix him -so that he could. - -I set forty-seven prisoners loose out of those awful rat-holes, -and left only one in captivity. He was a lord, and had killed -another lord, a sort of kinsman of the queen. That other lord -had ambushed him to assassinate him, but this fellow had got the -best of him and cut his throat. However, it was not for that that -I left him jailed, but for maliciously destroying the only public -well in one of his wretched villages. The queen was bound to hang -him for killing her kinsman, but I would not allow it: it was no -crime to kill an assassin. But I said I was willing to let her -hang him for destroying the well; so she concluded to put up with -that, as it was better than nothing. - -Dear me, for what trifling offenses the most of those forty-seven -men and women were shut up there! Indeed, some were there for -no distinct offense at all, but only to gratify somebody's spite; -and not always the queen's by any means, but a friend's. The newest -prisoner's crime was a mere remark which he had made. He said -he believed that men were about all alike, and one man as good -as another, barring clothes. He said he believed that if you were -to strip the nation naked and send a stranger through the crowd, he -couldn't tell the king from a quack doctor, nor a duke from a hotel -clerk. Apparently here was a man whose brains had not been reduced -to an ineffectual mush by idiotic training. I set him loose and -sent him to the Factory. - -Some of the cells carved in the living rock were just behind the -face of the precipice, and in each of these an arrow-slit had been -pierced outward to the daylight, and so the captive had a thin -ray from the blessed sun for his comfort. The case of one of -these poor fellows was particularly hard. From his dusky swallow's -hole high up in that vast wall of native rock he could peer out -through the arrow-slit and see his own home off yonder in the -valley; and for twenty-two years he had watched it, with heartache -and longing, through that crack. He could see the lights shine -there at night, and in the daytime he could see figures go in and -come out--his wife and children, some of them, no doubt, though -he could not make out at that distance. In the course of years -he noted festivities there, and tried to rejoice, and wondered -if they were weddings or what they might be. And he noted funerals; -and they wrung his heart. He could make out the coffin, but he -could not determine its size, and so could not tell whether it was -wife or child. He could see the procession form, with priests -and mourners, and move solemnly away, bearing the secret with -them. He had left behind him five children and a wife; and in -nineteen years he had seen five funerals issue, and none of them -humble enough in pomp to denote a servant. So he had lost five -of his treasures; there must still be one remaining--one now -infinitely, unspeakably precious,--but _which_ one? wife, or child? -That was the question that tortured him, by night and by day, -asleep and awake. Well, to have an interest, of some sort, and -half a ray of light, when you are in a dungeon, is a great support -to the body and preserver of the intellect. This man was in pretty -good condition yet. By the time he had finished telling me his -distressful tale, I was in the same state of mind that you would -have been in yourself, if you have got average human curiosity; -that is to say, I was as burning up as he was to find out which -member of the family it was that was left. So I took him over -home myself; and an amazing kind of a surprise party it was, too ---typhoons and cyclones of frantic joy, and whole Niagaras of happy -tears; and by George! we found the aforetime young matron graying -toward the imminent verge of her half century, and the babies all -men and women, and some of them married and experimenting familywise -themselves--for not a soul of the tribe was dead! Conceive of the -ingenious devilishness of that queen: she had a special hatred for -this prisoner, and she had _invented_ all those funerals herself, -to scorch his heart with; and the sublimest stroke of genius of -the whole thing was leaving the family-invoice a funeral _short_, -so as to let him wear his poor old soul out guessing. - -But for me, he never would have got out. Morgan le Fay hated him -with her whole heart, and she never would have softened toward him. -And yet his crime was committed more in thoughtlessness than -deliberate depravity. He had said she had red hair. Well, she -had; but that was no way to speak of it. When red-headed people -are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn. - -Consider it: among these forty-seven captives there were five -whose names, offenses, and dates of incarceration were no longer -known! One woman and four men--all bent, and wrinkled, and -mind-extinguished patriarchs. They themselves had long ago forgotten -these details; at any rate they had mere vague theories about them, -nothing definite and nothing that they repeated twice in the same -way. The succession of priests whose office it had been to pray -daily with the captives and remind them that God had put them -there, for some wise purpose or other, and teach them that patience, -humbleness, and submission to oppression was what He loved to see -in parties of a subordinate rank, had traditions about these poor -old human ruins, but nothing more. These traditions went but -little way, for they concerned the length of the incarceration only, -and not the names of the offenses. And even by the help of -tradition the only thing that could be proven was that none of -the five had seen daylight for thirty-five years: how much longer -this privation has lasted was not guessable. The king and the queen -knew nothing about these poor creatures, except that they were -heirlooms, assets inherited, along with the throne, from the former -firm. Nothing of their history had been transmitted with their -persons, and so the inheriting owners had considered them of no -value, and had felt no interest in them. I said to the queen: - -"Then why in the world didn't you set them free?" - -The question was a puzzler. She didn't know _why_ she hadn't, the -thing had never come up in her mind. So here she was, forecasting -the veritable history of future prisoners of the Castle d'If, -without knowing it. It seemed plain to me now, that with her -training, those inherited prisoners were merely property--nothing -more, nothing less. Well, when we inherit property, it does not -occur to us to throw it away, even when we do not value it. - -When I brought my procession of human bats up into the open world -and the glare of the afternoon sun--previously blindfolding them, -in charity for eyes so long untortured by light--they were a -spectacle to look at. Skeletons, scarecrows, goblins, pathetic -frights, every one; legitimatest possible children of Monarchy -by the Grace of God and the Established Church. I muttered absently: - -"I _wish_ I could photograph them!" - -You have seen that kind of people who will never let on that they -don't know the meaning of a new big word. The more ignorant they -are, the more pitifully certain they are to pretend you haven't -shot over their heads. The queen was just one of that sort, and -was always making the stupidest blunders by reason of it. She -hesitated a moment; then her face brightened up with sudden -comprehension, and she said she would do it for me. - -I thought to myself: She? why what can she know about photography? -But it was a poor time to be thinking. When I looked around, she -was moving on the procession with an axe! - -Well, she certainly was a curious one, was Morgan le Fay. I have -seen a good many kinds of women in my time, but she laid over them -all for variety. And how sharply characteristic of her this episode -was. She had no more idea than a horse of how to photograph -a procession; but being in doubt, it was just like her to try -to do it with an axe. - - - -CHAPTER XIX - -KNIGHT-ERRANTRY AS A TRADE - -Sandy and I were on the road again, next morning, bright and early. -It was so good to open up one's lungs and take in whole luscious -barrels-ful of the blessed God's untainted, dew-fashioned, -woodland-scented air once more, after suffocating body and mind for two -days and nights in the moral and physical stenches of that intolerable -old buzzard-roost! I mean, for me: of course the place was all -right and agreeable enough for Sandy, for she had been used to -high life all her days. - -Poor girl, her jaws had had a wearisome rest now for a while, -and I was expecting to get the consequences. I was right; but she -had stood by me most helpfully in the castle, and had mightily -supported and reinforced me with gigantic foolishnesses which were -worth more for the occasion than wisdoms double their size; so -I thought she had earned a right to work her mill for a while, -if she wanted to, and I felt not a pang when she started it up: - -"Now turn we unto Sir Marhaus that rode with the damsel of thirty -winter of age southward--" - -"Are you going to see if you can work up another half-stretch on -the trail of the cowboys, Sandy?" - -"Even so, fair my lord." - -"Go ahead, then. I won't interrupt this time, if I can help it. -Begin over again; start fair, and shake out all your reefs, and -I will load my pipe and give good attention." - -"Now turn we unto Sir Marhaus that rode with the damsel of thirty -winter of age southward. And so they came into a deep forest, -and by fortune they were nighted, and rode along in a deep way, -and at the last they came into a courtelage where abode the duke -of South Marches, and there they asked harbour. And on the morn -the duke sent unto Sir Marhaus, and bad him make him ready. And -so Sir Marhaus arose and armed him, and there was a mass sung -afore him, and he brake his fast, and so mounted on horseback in -the court of the castle, there they should do the battle. So there -was the duke already on horseback, clean armed, and his six sons -by him, and every each had a spear in his hand, and so they -encountered, whereas the duke and his two sons brake their spears -upon him, but Sir Marhaus held up his spear and touched none of -them. Then came the four sons by couples, and two of them brake -their spears, and so did the other two. And all this while -Sir Marhaus touched them not. Then Sir Marhaus ran to the duke, -and smote him with his spear that horse and man fell to the earth. -And so he served his sons. And then Sir Marhaus alight down, and -bad the duke yield him or else he would slay him. And then some -of his sons recovered, and would have set upon Sir Marhaus. Then -Sir Marhaus said to the duke, Cease thy sons, or else I will do -the uttermost to you all. When the duke saw he might not escape -the death, he cried to his sons, and charged them to yield them -to Sir Marhaus. And they kneeled all down and put the pommels -of their swords to the knight, and so he received them. And then -they holp up their father, and so by their common assent promised -unto Sir Marhaus never to be foes unto King Arthur, and thereupon -at Whitsuntide after, to come he and his sons, and put them in -the king's grace.* - -[*Footnote: The story is borrowed, language and all, from the -Morte d'Arthur.--M.T.] - -"Even so standeth the history, fair Sir Boss. Now ye shall wit -that that very duke and his six sons are they whom but few days -past you also did overcome and send to Arthur's court!" - -"Why, Sandy, you can't mean it!" - -"An I speak not sooth, let it be the worse for me." - -"Well, well, well,--now who would ever have thought it? One -whole duke and six dukelets; why, Sandy, it was an elegant haul. -Knight-errantry is a most chuckle-headed trade, and it is tedious -hard work, too, but I begin to see that there _is_ money in it, -after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it -as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business -can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl -in the knight-errantry line--now what is it when you blow away -the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner -in pork, that's all, and you can't make anything else out of it. -You're rich--yes,--suddenly rich--for about a day, maybe a week; -then somebody corners the market on _you_, and down goes your -bucket-shop; ain't that so, Sandy?" - -"Whethersoever it be that my mind miscarrieth, bewraying simple -language in such sort that the words do seem to come endlong -and overthwart--" - -"There's no use in beating about the bush and trying to get around -it that way, Sandy, it's _so_, just as I say. I _know_ it's so. And, -moreover, when you come right down to the bedrock, knight-errantry -is _worse_ than pork; for whatever happens, the pork's left, and -so somebody's benefited anyway; but when the market breaks, in a -knight-errantry whirl, and every knight in the pool passes in his -checks, what have you got for assets? Just a rubbish-pile of -battered corpses and a barrel or two of busted hardware. Can you -call _those_ assets? Give me pork, every time. Am I right?" - -"Ah, peradventure my head being distraught by the manifold matters -whereunto the confusions of these but late adventured haps and -fortunings whereby not I alone nor you alone, but every each of us, -meseemeth--" - -"No, it's not your head, Sandy. Your head's all right, as far as -it goes, but you don't know business; that's where the trouble -is. It unfits you to argue about business, and you're wrong -to be always trying. However, that aside, it was a good haul, -anyway, and will breed a handsome crop of reputation in Arthur's -court. And speaking of the cowboys, what a curious country this -is for women and men that never get old. Now there's Morgan le Fay, -as fresh and young as a Vassar pullet, to all appearances, and -here is this old duke of the South Marches still slashing away with -sword and lance at his time of life, after raising such a family -as he has raised. As I understand it, Sir Gawaine killed seven -of his sons, and still he had six left for Sir Marhaus and me to -take into camp. And then there was that damsel of sixty winter -of age still excursioning around in her frosty bloom--How old -are you, Sandy?" - -It was the first time I ever struck a still place in her. The mill -had shut down for repairs, or something. - - - -CHAPTER XX - -THE OGRE'S CASTLE - -Between six and nine we made ten miles, which was plenty for a -horse carrying triple--man, woman, and armor; then we stopped -for a long nooning under some trees by a limpid brook. - -Right so came by and by a knight riding; and as he drew near he -made dolorous moan, and by the words of it I perceived that he -was cursing and swearing; yet nevertheless was I glad of his -coming, for that I saw he bore a bulletin-board whereon in letters -all of shining gold was writ: - - "USE PETERSON'S PROPHYLACTIC TOOTH-BRUSH--ALL THE GO." - -I was glad of his coming, for even by this token I knew him for -knight of mine. It was Sir Madok de la Montaine, a burly great -fellow whose chief distinction was that he had come within an ace -of sending Sir Launcelot down over his horse-tail once. He was -never long in a stranger's presence without finding some pretext -or other to let out that great fact. But there was another fact -of nearly the same size, which he never pushed upon anybody unasked, -and yet never withheld when asked: that was, that the reason he -didn't quite succeed was, that he was interrupted and sent down -over horse-tail himself. This innocent vast lubber did not see -any particular difference between the two facts. I liked him, -for he was earnest in his work, and very valuable. And he was so -fine to look at, with his broad mailed shoulders, and the grand -leonine set of his plumed head, and his big shield with its quaint -device of a gauntleted hand clutching a prophylactic tooth-brush, -with motto: "Try Noyoudont." This was a tooth-wash that I was -introducing. - -He was aweary, he said, and indeed he looked it; but he would not -alight. He said he was after the stove-polish man; and with this -he broke out cursing and swearing anew. The bulletin-boarder -referred to was Sir Ossaise of Surluse, a brave knight, and of -considerable celebrity on account of his having tried conclusions -in a tournament once, with no less a Mogul than Sir Gaheris -himself--although not successfully. He was of a light and laughing -disposition, and to him nothing in this world was serious. It was -for this reason that I had chosen him to work up a stove-polish -sentiment. There were no stoves yet, and so there could be nothing -serious about stove-polish. All that the agent needed to do was -to deftly and by degrees prepare the public for the great change, -and have them established in predilections toward neatness against -the time when the stove should appear upon the stage. - -Sir Madok was very bitter, and brake out anew with cursings. He -said he had cursed his soul to rags; and yet he would not get down -from his horse, neither would he take any rest, or listen to any -comfort, until he should have found Sir Ossaise and settled this -account. It appeared, by what I could piece together of the -unprofane fragments of his statement, that he had chanced upon -Sir Ossaise at dawn of the morning, and been told that if he would -make a short cut across the fields and swamps and broken hills and -glades, he could head off a company of travelers who would be rare -customers for prophylactics and tooth-wash. With characteristic -zeal Sir Madok had plunged away at once upon this quest, and after -three hours of awful crosslot riding had overhauled his game. And -behold, it was the five patriarchs that had been released from the -dungeons the evening before! Poor old creatures, it was all of -twenty years since any one of them had known what it was to be -equipped with any remaining snag or remnant of a tooth. - -"Blank-blank-blank him," said Sir Madok, "an I do not stove-polish -him an I may find him, leave it to me; for never no knight that -hight Ossaise or aught else may do me this disservice and bide -on live, an I may find him, the which I have thereunto sworn a -great oath this day." - -And with these words and others, he lightly took his spear and -gat him thence. In the middle of the afternoon we came upon one -of those very patriarchs ourselves, in the edge of a poor village. -He was basking in the love of relatives and friends whom he had not -seen for fifty years; and about him and caressing him were also -descendants of his own body whom he had never seen at all till now; -but to him these were all strangers, his memory was gone, his mind -was stagnant. It seemed incredible that a man could outlast half -a century shut up in a dark hole like a rat, but here were his old -wife and some old comrades to testify to it. They could remember -him as he was in the freshness and strength of his young manhood, -when he kissed his child and delivered it to its mother's hands -and went away into that long oblivion. The people at the castle -could not tell within half a generation the length of time the man -had been shut up there for his unrecorded and forgotten offense; -but this old wife knew; and so did her old child, who stood there -among her married sons and daughters trying to realize a father -who had been to her a name, a thought, a formless image, a tradition, -all her life, and now was suddenly concreted into actual flesh -and blood and set before her face. - -It was a curious situation; yet it is not on that account that -I have made room for it here, but on account of a thing which -seemed to me still more curious. To wit, that this dreadful matter -brought from these downtrodden people no outburst of rage against -these oppressors. They had been heritors and subjects of cruelty -and outrage so long that nothing could have startled them but -a kindness. Yes, here was a curious revelation, indeed, of the -depth to which this people had been sunk in slavery. Their entire -being was reduced to a monotonous dead level of patience, resignation, -dumb uncomplaining acceptance of whatever might befall them in -this life. Their very imagination was dead. When you can say -that of a man, he has struck bottom, I reckon; there is no lower -deep for him. - -I rather wished I had gone some other road. This was not the sort -of experience for a statesman to encounter who was planning out -a peaceful revolution in his mind. For it could not help bringing -up the unget-aroundable fact that, all gentle cant and philosophizing -to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in the world ever did -achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: -it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed must -_begin_ in blood, whatever may answer afterward. If history teaches -anything, it teaches that. What this folk needed, then, was a -Reign of Terror and a guillotine, and I was the wrong man for them. - -Two days later, toward noon, Sandy began to show signs of excitement -and feverish expectancy. She said we were approaching the ogre's -castle. I was surprised into an uncomfortable shock. The object -of our quest had gradually dropped out of my mind; this sudden -resurrection of it made it seem quite a real and startling thing -for a moment, and roused up in me a smart interest. Sandy's -excitement increased every moment; and so did mine, for that sort -of thing is catching. My heart got to thumping. You can't reason -with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which -the intellect scorns. Presently, when Sandy slid from the horse, -motioned me to stop, and went creeping stealthily, with her head -bent nearly to her knees, toward a row of bushes that bordered -a declivity, the thumpings grew stronger and quicker. And they -kept it up while she was gaining her ambush and getting her glimpse -over the declivity; and also while I was creeping to her side on -my knees. Her eyes were burning now, as she pointed with her -finger, and said in a panting whisper: - -"The castle! The castle! Lo, where it looms!" - -What a welcome disappointment I experienced! I said: - -"Castle? It is nothing but a pigsty; a pigsty with a wattled -fence around it." - -She looked surprised and distressed. The animation faded out of -her face; and during many moments she was lost in thought and -silent. Then: - -"It was not enchanted aforetime," she said in a musing fashion, -as if to herself. "And how strange is this marvel, and how awful ---that to the one perception it is enchanted and dight in a base -and shameful aspect; yet to the perception of the other it is not -enchanted, hath suffered no change, but stands firm and stately -still, girt with its moat and waving its banners in the blue air -from its towers. And God shield us, how it pricks the heart to -see again these gracious captives, and the sorrow deepened in their -sweet faces! We have tarried along, and are to blame." - -I saw my cue. The castle was enchanted to _me_, not to her. It would -be wasted time to try to argue her out of her delusion, it couldn't -be done; I must just humor it. So I said: - -"This is a common case--the enchanting of a thing to one eye and -leaving it in its proper form to another. You have heard of it -before, Sandy, though you haven't happened to experience it. -But no harm is done. In fact, it is lucky the way it is. If these -ladies were hogs to everybody and to themselves, it would be -necessary to break the enchantment, and that might be impossible -if one failed to find out the particular process of the enchantment. -And hazardous, too; for in attempting a disenchantment without the -true key, you are liable to err, and turn your hogs into dogs, -and the dogs into cats, the cats into rats, and so on, and end by -reducing your materials to nothing finally, or to an odorless gas -which you can't follow--which, of course, amounts to the same -thing. But here, by good luck, no one's eyes but mine are under -the enchantment, and so it is of no consequence to dissolve it. -These ladies remain ladies to you, and to themselves, and to -everybody else; and at the same time they will suffer in no way -from my delusion, for when I know that an ostensible hog is a -lady, that is enough for me, I know how to treat her." - -"Thanks, oh, sweet my lord, thou talkest like an angel. And I know -that thou wilt deliver them, for that thou art minded to great -deeds and art as strong a knight of your hands and as brave to will -and to do, as any that is on live." - -"I will not leave a princess in the sty, Sandy. Are those three -yonder that to my disordered eyes are starveling swine-herds--" - -"The ogres, Are _they_ changed also? It is most wonderful. Now -am I fearful; for how canst thou strike with sure aim when five of -their nine cubits of stature are to thee invisible? Ah, go warily, -fair sir; this is a mightier emprise than I wend." - -"You be easy, Sandy. All I need to know is, how _much_ of an ogre -is invisible; then I know how to locate his vitals. Don't you be -afraid, I will make short work of these bunco-steerers. Stay -where you are." - -I left Sandy kneeling there, corpse-faced but plucky and hopeful, -and rode down to the pigsty, and struck up a trade with the -swine-herds. I won their gratitude by buying out all the hogs -at the lump sum of sixteen pennies, which was rather above latest -quotations. I was just in time; for the Church, the lord of the -manor, and the rest of the tax-gatherers would have been along -next day and swept off pretty much all the stock, leaving the -swine-herds very short of hogs and Sandy out of princesses. But -now the tax people could be paid in cash, and there would be -a stake left besides. One of the men had ten children; and he -said that last year when a priest came and of his ten pigs took -the fattest one for tithes, the wife burst out upon him, and offered -him a child and said: - -"Thou beast without bowels of mercy, why leave me my child, yet -rob me of the wherewithal to feed it?" - -How curious. The same thing had happened in the Wales of my day, -under this same old Established Church, which was supposed by many -to have changed its nature when it changed its disguise. - -I sent the three men away, and then opened the sty gate and beckoned -Sandy to come--which she did; and not leisurely, but with the rush -of a prairie fire. And when I saw her fling herself upon those -hogs, with tears of joy running down her cheeks, and strain them -to her heart, and kiss them, and caress them, and call them -reverently by grand princely names, I was ashamed of her, ashamed -of the human race. - -We had to drive those hogs home--ten miles; and no ladies were -ever more fickle-minded or contrary. They would stay in no road, -no path; they broke out through the brush on all sides, and flowed -away in all directions, over rocks, and hills, and the roughest -places they could find. And they must not be struck, or roughly -accosted; Sandy could not bear to see them treated in ways unbecoming -their rank. The troublesomest old sow of the lot had to be called -my Lady, and your Highness, like the rest. It is annoying and -difficult to scour around after hogs, in armor. There was one -small countess, with an iron ring in her snout and hardly any hair -on her back, that was the devil for perversity. She gave me a race -of an hour, over all sorts of country, and then we were right where -we had started from, having made not a rod of real progress. -I seized her at last by the tail, and brought her along squealing. -When I overtook Sandy she was horrified, and said it was in the -last degree indelicate to drag a countess by her train. - -We got the hogs home just at dark--most of them. The princess -Nerovens de Morganore was missing, and two of her ladies in waiting: -namely, Miss Angela Bohun, and the Demoiselle Elaine Courtemains, -the former of these two being a young black sow with a white star -in her forehead, and the latter a brown one with thin legs and a -slight limp in the forward shank on the starboard side--a couple -of the tryingest blisters to drive that I ever saw. Also among -the missing were several mere baronesses--and I wanted them to -stay missing; but no, all that sausage-meat had to be found; so -servants were sent out with torches to scour the woods and hills -to that end. - -Of course, the whole drove was housed in the house, and, great -guns!--well, I never saw anything like it. Nor ever heard anything -like it. And never smelt anything like it. It was like an -insurrection in a gasometer. - - - -CHAPTER XXI - -THE PILGRIMS - -When I did get to bed at last I was unspeakably tired; the stretching -out, and the relaxing of the long-tense muscles, how luxurious, -how delicious! but that was as far as I could get--sleep was out of -the question for the present. The ripping and tearing and squealing -of the nobility up and down the halls and corridors was pandemonium -come again, and kept me broad awake. Being awake, my thoughts -were busy, of course; and mainly they busied themselves with Sandy's -curious delusion. Here she was, as sane a person as the kingdom -could produce; and yet, from my point of view she was acting like -a crazy woman. My land, the power of training! of influence! -of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything. I had -to put myself in Sandy's place to realize that she was not a -lunatic. Yes, and put her in mine, to demonstrate how easy it is -to seem a lunatic to a person who has not been taught as you have -been taught. If I had told Sandy I had seen a wagon, uninfluenced -by enchantment, spin along fifty miles an hour; had seen a man, -unequipped with magic powers, get into a basket and soar out of -sight among the clouds; and had listened, without any necromancer's -help, to the conversation of a person who was several hundred miles -away, Sandy would not merely have supposed me to be crazy, she -would have thought she knew it. Everybody around her believed in -enchantments; nobody had any doubts; to doubt that a castle could -be turned into a sty, and its occupants into hogs, would have been -the same as my doubting among Connecticut people the actuality -of the telephone and its wonders,--and in both cases would be -absolute proof of a diseased mind, an unsettled reason. Yes, Sandy -was sane; that must be admitted. If I also would be sane--to Sandy ---I must keep my superstitions about unenchanted and unmiraculous -locomotives, balloons, and telephones, to myself. Also, I believed -that the world was not flat, and hadn't pillars under it to support -it, nor a canopy over it to turn off a universe of water that -occupied all space above; but as I was the only person in the kingdom -afflicted with such impious and criminal opinions, I recognized -that it would be good wisdom to keep quiet about this matter, too, -if I did not wish to be suddenly shunned and forsaken by everybody -as a madman. - -The next morning Sandy assembled the swine in the dining-room and -gave them their breakfast, waiting upon them personally and -manifesting in every way the deep reverence which the natives of -her island, ancient and modern, have always felt for rank, let its -outward casket and the mental and moral contents be what they may. -I could have eaten with the hogs if I had had birth approaching my -lofty official rank; but I hadn't, and so accepted the unavoidable -slight and made no complaint. Sandy and I had our breakfast at -the second table. The family were not at home. I said: - -"How many are in the family, Sandy, and where do they keep themselves?" - -"Family?" - -"Yes." - -"Which family, good my lord?" - -"Why, this family; your own family." - -"Sooth to say, I understand you not. I have no family." - -"No family? Why, Sandy, isn't this your home?" - -"Now how indeed might that be? I have no home." - -"Well, then, whose house is this?" - -"Ah, wit you well I would tell you an I knew myself." - -"Come--you don't even know these people? Then who invited us here?" - -"None invited us. We but came; that is all." - -"Why, woman, this is a most extraordinary performance. The -effrontery of it is beyond admiration. We blandly march into -a man's house, and cram it full of the only really valuable nobility -the sun has yet discovered in the earth, and then it turns out -that we don't even know the man's name. How did you ever venture -to take this extravagant liberty? I supposed, of course, it was -your home. What will the man say?" - -"What will he say? Forsooth what can he say but give thanks?" - -"Thanks for what?" - -Her face was filled with a puzzled surprise: - -"Verily, thou troublest mine understanding with strange words. -Do ye dream that one of his estate is like to have the honor twice -in his life to entertain company such as we have brought to grace -his house withal?" - -"Well, no--when you come to that. No, it's an even bet that this -is the first time he has had a treat like this." - -"Then let him be thankful, and manifest the same by grateful speech -and due humility; he were a dog, else, and the heir and ancestor -of dogs." - -To my mind, the situation was uncomfortable. It might become more so. -It might be a good idea to muster the hogs and move on. So I said: - -"The day is wasting, Sandy. It is time to get the nobility together -and be moving." - -"Wherefore, fair sir and Boss?" - -"We want to take them to their home, don't we?" - -"La, but list to him! They be of all the regions of the earth! -Each must hie to her own home; wend you we might do all these -journeys in one so brief life as He hath appointed that created -life, and thereto death likewise with help of Adam, who by sin -done through persuasion of his helpmeet, she being wrought upon -and bewrayed by the beguilements of the great enemy of man, that -serpent hight Satan, aforetime consecrated and set apart unto that -evil work by overmastering spite and envy begotten in his heart -through fell ambitions that did blight and mildew a nature erst -so white and pure whenso it hove with the shining multitudes -its brethren-born in glade and shade of that fair heaven wherein -all such as native be to that rich estate and--" - -"Great Scott!" - -"My lord?" - -"Well, you know we haven't got time for this sort of thing. Don't -you see, we could distribute these people around the earth in less -time than it is going to take you to explain that we can't. We -mustn't talk now, we must act. You want to be careful; you mustn't -let your mill get the start of you that way, at a time like this. -To business now--and sharp's the word. Who is to take the -aristocracy home?" - -"Even their friends. These will come for them from the far parts -of the earth." - -This was lightning from a clear sky, for unexpectedness; and the -relief of it was like pardon to a prisoner. She would remain to -deliver the goods, of course. - -"Well, then, Sandy, as our enterprise is handsomely and successfully -ended, I will go home and report; and if ever another one--" - -"I also am ready; I will go with thee." - -This was recalling the pardon. - -"How? You will go with me? Why should you?" - -"Will I be traitor to my knight, dost think? That were dishonor. -I may not part from thee until in knightly encounter in the field -some overmatching champion shall fairly win and fairly wear me. -I were to blame an I thought that that might ever hap." - -"Elected for the long term," I sighed to myself. "I may as well -make the best of it." So then I spoke up and said: - -"All right; let us make a start." - -While she was gone to cry her farewells over the pork, I gave that -whole peerage away to the servants. And I asked them to take -a duster and dust around a little where the nobilities had mainly -lodged and promenaded; but they considered that that would be -hardly worth while, and would moreover be a rather grave departure -from custom, and therefore likely to make talk. A departure from -custom--that settled it; it was a nation capable of committing any -crime but that. The servants said they would follow the fashion, -a fashion grown sacred through immemorial observance; they would -scatter fresh rushes in all the rooms and halls, and then the -evidence of the aristocratic visitation would be no longer visible. -It was a kind of satire on Nature: it was the scientific method, -the geologic method; it deposited the history of the family in -a stratified record; and the antiquary could dig through it and -tell by the remains of each period what changes of diet the family -had introduced successively for a hundred years. - -The first thing we struck that day was a procession of pilgrims. -It was not going our way, but we joined it, nevertheless; for it -was hourly being borne in upon me now, that if I would govern -this country wisely, I must be posted in the details of its life, -and not at second hand, but by personal observation and scrutiny. - -This company of pilgrims resembled Chaucer's in this: that it -had in it a sample of about all the upper occupations and professions -the country could show, and a corresponding variety of costume. -There were young men and old men, young women and old women, -lively folk and grave folk. They rode upon mules and horses, and -there was not a side-saddle in the party; for this specialty was -to remain unknown in England for nine hundred years yet. - -It was a pleasant, friendly, sociable herd; pious, happy, merry and -full of unconscious coarsenesses and innocent indecencies. What -they regarded as the merry tale went the continual round and caused -no more embarrassment than it would have caused in the best English -society twelve centuries later. Practical jokes worthy of the -English wits of the first quarter of the far-off nineteenth century -were sprung here and there and yonder along the line, and compelled -the delightedest applause; and sometimes when a bright remark was -made at one end of the procession and started on its travels toward -the other, you could note its progress all the way by the sparkling -spray of laughter it threw off from its bows as it plowed along; -and also by the blushes of the mules in its wake. - -Sandy knew the goal and purpose of this pilgrimage, and she posted -me. She said: - -"They journey to the Valley of Holiness, for to be blessed of the -godly hermits and drink of the miraculous waters and be cleansed -from sin." - -"Where is this watering place?" - -"It lieth a two-day journey hence, by the borders of the land that -hight the Cuckoo Kingdom." - -"Tell me about it. Is it a celebrated place?" - -"Oh, of a truth, yes. There be none more so. Of old time there -lived there an abbot and his monks. Belike were none in the world -more holy than these; for they gave themselves to study of pious -books, and spoke not the one to the other, or indeed to any, and -ate decayed herbs and naught thereto, and slept hard, and prayed -much, and washed never; also they wore the same garment until it -fell from their bodies through age and decay. Right so came they -to be known of all the world by reason of these holy austerities, -and visited by rich and poor, and reverenced." - -"Proceed." - -"But always there was lack of water there. Whereas, upon a time, -the holy abbot prayed, and for answer a great stream of clear -water burst forth by miracle in a desert place. Now were the -fickle monks tempted of the Fiend, and they wrought with their -abbot unceasingly by beggings and beseechings that he would construct -a bath; and when he was become aweary and might not resist more, -he said have ye your will, then, and granted that they asked. -Now mark thou what 'tis to forsake the ways of purity the which -He loveth, and wanton with such as be worldly and an offense. -These monks did enter into the bath and come thence washed as -white as snow; and lo, in that moment His sign appeared, in -miraculous rebuke! for His insulted waters ceased to flow, and -utterly vanished away." - -"They fared mildly, Sandy, considering how that kind of crime -is regarded in this country." - -"Belike; but it was their first sin; and they had been of perfect -life for long, and differing in naught from the angels. Prayers, -tears, torturings of the flesh, all was vain to beguile that water -to flow again. Even processions; even burnt-offerings; even votive -candles to the Virgin, did fail every each of them; and all in -the land did marvel." - -"How odd to find that even this industry has its financial panics, -and at times sees its assignats and greenbacks languish to zero, -and everything come to a standstill. Go on, Sandy." - -"And so upon a time, after year and day, the good abbot made humble -surrender and destroyed the bath. And behold, His anger was in that -moment appeased, and the waters gushed richly forth again, and even -unto this day they have not ceased to flow in that generous measure." - -"Then I take it nobody has washed since." - -"He that would essay it could have his halter free; yes, and -swiftly would he need it, too." - -"The community has prospered since?" - -"Even from that very day. The fame of the miracle went abroad -into all lands. From every land came monks to join; they came -even as the fishes come, in shoals; and the monastery added building -to building, and yet others to these, and so spread wide its arms -and took them in. And nuns came, also; and more again, and yet -more; and built over against the monastery on the yon side of the -vale, and added building to building, until mighty was that nunnery. -And these were friendly unto those, and they joined their loving -labors together, and together they built a fair great foundling -asylum midway of the valley between." - -"You spoke of some hermits, Sandy." - -"These have gathered there from the ends of the earth. A hermit -thriveth best where there be multitudes of pilgrims. Ye shall not -find no hermit of no sort wanting. If any shall mention a hermit -of a kind he thinketh new and not to be found but in some far -strange land, let him but scratch among the holes and caves and -swamps that line that Valley of Holiness, and whatsoever be his -breed, it skills not, he shall find a sample of it there." - -I closed up alongside of a burly fellow with a fat good-humored -face, purposing to make myself agreeable and pick up some further -crumbs of fact; but I had hardly more than scraped acquaintance -with him when he began eagerly and awkwardly to lead up, in the -immemorial way, to that same old anecdote--the one Sir Dinadan -told me, what time I got into trouble with Sir Sagramor and was -challenged of him on account of it. I excused myself and dropped -to the rear of the procession, sad at heart, willing to go hence -from this troubled life, this vale of tears, this brief day of -broken rest, of cloud and storm, of weary struggle and monotonous -defeat; and yet shrinking from the change, as remembering how long -eternity is, and how many have wended thither who know that anecdote. - -Early in the afternoon we overtook another procession of pilgrims; -but in this one was no merriment, no jokes, no laughter, no playful -ways, nor any happy giddiness, whether of youth or age. Yet both -were here, both age and youth; gray old men and women, strong men -and women of middle age, young husbands, young wives, little boys -and girls, and three babies at the breast. Even the children were -smileless; there was not a face among all these half a hundred -people but was cast down, and bore that set expression of hopelessness -which is bred of long and hard trials and old acquaintance with -despair. They were slaves. Chains led from their fettered feet -and their manacled hands to a sole-leather belt about their waists; -and all except the children were also linked together in a file -six feet apart, by a single chain which led from collar to collar -all down the line. They were on foot, and had tramped three -hundred miles in eighteen days, upon the cheapest odds and ends -of food, and stingy rations of that. They had slept in these -chains every night, bundled together like swine. They had upon -their bodies some poor rags, but they could not be said to be -clothed. Their irons had chafed the skin from their ankles and -made sores which were ulcerated and wormy. Their naked feet were -torn, and none walked without a limp. Originally there had been a -hundred of these unfortunates, but about half had been sold on -the trip. The trader in charge of them rode a horse and carried -a whip with a short handle and a long heavy lash divided into -several knotted tails at the end. With this whip he cut the -shoulders of any that tottered from weariness and pain, and -straightened them up. He did not speak; the whip conveyed his -desire without that. None of these poor creatures looked up as -we rode along by; they showed no consciousness of our presence. -And they made no sound but one; that was the dull and awful clank -of their chains from end to end of the long file, as forty-three -burdened feet rose and fell in unison. The file moved in a cloud -of its own making. - -All these faces were gray with a coating of dust. One has seen -the like of this coating upon furniture in unoccupied houses, and -has written his idle thought in it with his finger. I was reminded -of this when I noticed the faces of some of those women, young -mothers carrying babes that were near to death and freedom, how -a something in their hearts was written in the dust upon their -faces, plain to see, and lord, how plain to read! for it was the -track of tears. One of these young mothers was but a girl, and -it hurt me to the heart to read that writing, and reflect that it -was come up out of the breast of such a child, a breast that ought -not to know trouble yet, but only the gladness of the morning of -life; and no doubt-- - -She reeled just then, giddy with fatigue, and down came the lash -and flicked a flake of skin from her naked shoulder. It stung me -as if I had been hit instead. The master halted the file and -jumped from his horse. He stormed and swore at this girl, and -said she had made annoyance enough with her laziness, and as this -was the last chance he should have, he would settle the account now. -She dropped on her knees and put up her hands and began to beg, -and cry, and implore, in a passion of terror, but the master gave -no attention. He snatched the child from her, and then made the -men-slaves who were chained before and behind her throw her on -the ground and hold her there and expose her body; and then he -laid on with his lash like a madman till her back was flayed, she -shrieking and struggling the while piteously. One of the men who -was holding her turned away his face, and for this humanity he was -reviled and flogged. - -All our pilgrims looked on and commented--on the expert way in -which the whip was handled. They were too much hardened by lifelong -everyday familiarity with slavery to notice that there was anything -else in the exhibition that invited comment. This was what slavery -could do, in the way of ossifying what one may call the superior -lobe of human feeling; for these pilgrims were kind-hearted people, -and they would not have allowed that man to treat a horse like that. - -I wanted to stop the whole thing and set the slaves free, but that -would not do. I must not interfere too much and get myself a name -for riding over the country's laws and the citizen's rights -roughshod. If I lived and prospered I would be the death of -slavery, that I was resolved upon; but I would try to fix it so -that when I became its executioner it should be by command of -the nation. - -Just here was the wayside shop of a smith; and now arrived a landed -proprietor who had bought this girl a few miles back, deliverable -here where her irons could be taken off. They were removed; then -there was a squabble between the gentleman and the dealer as to -which should pay the blacksmith. The moment the girl was delivered -from her irons, she flung herself, all tears and frantic sobbings, -into the arms of the slave who had turned away his face when she -was whipped. He strained her to his breast, and smothered her -face and the child's with kisses, and washed them with the rain -of his tears. I suspected. I inquired. Yes, I was right; it was -husband and wife. They had to be torn apart by force; the girl -had to be dragged away, and she struggled and fought and shrieked -like one gone mad till a turn of the road hid her from sight; and -even after that, we could still make out the fading plaint of those -receding shrieks. And the husband and father, with his wife and -child gone, never to be seen by him again in life?--well, the look -of him one might not bear at all, and so I turned away; but I knew -I should never get his picture out of my mind again, and there -it is to this day, to wring my heartstrings whenever I think of it. - -We put up at the inn in a village just at nightfall, and when -I rose next morning and looked abroad, I was ware where a knight -came riding in the golden glory of the new day, and recognized him -for knight of mine--Sir Ozana le Cure Hardy. He was in the -gentlemen's furnishing line, and his missionarying specialty was -plug hats. He was clothed all in steel, in the beautifulest armor -of the time--up to where his helmet ought to have been; but he -hadn't any helmet, he wore a shiny stove-pipe hat, and was ridiculous -a spectacle as one might want to see. It was another of my -surreptitious schemes for extinguishing knighthood by making it -grotesque and absurd. Sir Ozana's saddle was hung about with -leather hat boxes, and every time he overcame a wandering knight -he swore him into my service and fitted him with a plug and made -him wear it. I dressed and ran down to welcome Sir Ozana and -get his news. - -"How is trade?" I asked. - -"Ye will note that I have but these four left; yet were they sixteen -whenas I got me from Camelot." - -"Why, you have certainly done nobly, Sir Ozana. Where have you -been foraging of late?" - -"I am but now come from the Valley of Holiness, please you sir." - -"I am pointed for that place myself. Is there anything stirring -in the monkery, more than common?" - -"By the mass ye may not question it!.... Give him good feed, -boy, and stint it not, an thou valuest thy crown; so get ye lightly -to the stable and do even as I bid.... Sir, it is parlous news -I bring, and--be these pilgrims? Then ye may not do better, good -folk, than gather and hear the tale I have to tell, sith it -concerneth you, forasmuch as ye go to find that ye will not find, -and seek that ye will seek in vain, my life being hostage for my -word, and my word and message being these, namely: That a hap -has happened whereof the like has not been seen no more but once -this two hundred years, which was the first and last time that -that said misfortune strake the holy valley in that form by -commandment of the Most High whereto by reasons just and causes -thereunto contributing, wherein the matter--" - -"The miraculous fount hath ceased to flow!" This shout burst from -twenty pilgrim mouths at once. - -"Ye say well, good people. I was verging to it, even when ye spake." - -"Has somebody been washing again?" - -"Nay, it is suspected, but none believe it. It is thought to be -some other sin, but none wit what." - -"How are they feeling about the calamity?" - -"None may describe it in words. The fount is these nine days dry. -The prayers that did begin then, and the lamentations in sackcloth -and ashes, and the holy processions, none of these have ceased -nor night nor day; and so the monks and the nuns and the foundlings -be all exhausted, and do hang up prayers writ upon parchment, -sith that no strength is left in man to lift up voice. And at last -they sent for thee, Sir Boss, to try magic and enchantment; and -if you could not come, then was the messenger to fetch Merlin, -and he is there these three days now, and saith he will fetch that -water though he burst the globe and wreck its kingdoms to accomplish -it; and right bravely doth he work his magic and call upon his -hellions to hie them hither and help, but not a whiff of moisture -hath he started yet, even so much as might qualify as mist upon -a copper mirror an ye count not the barrel of sweat he sweateth -betwixt sun and sun over the dire labors of his task; and if ye--" - -Breakfast was ready. As soon as it was over I showed to Sir Ozana -these words which I had written on the inside of his hat: "Chemical -Department, Laboratory extension, Section G. Pxxp. Send two of -first size, two of No. 3, and six of No. 4, together with the proper -complementary details--and two of my trained assistants." And I said: - -"Now get you to Camelot as fast as you can fly, brave knight, and -show the writing to Clarence, and tell him to have these required -matters in the Valley of Holiness with all possible dispatch." - -"I will well, Sir Boss," and he was off. - - - -CHAPTER XXII - -THE HOLY FOUNTAIN - -The pilgrims were human beings. Otherwise they would have acted -differently. They had come a long and difficult journey, and now -when the journey was nearly finished, and they learned that the main -thing they had come for had ceased to exist, they didn't do as -horses or cats or angle-worms would probably have done--turn back -and get at something profitable--no, anxious as they had before -been to see the miraculous fountain, they were as much as forty -times as anxious now to see the place where it had used to be. -There is no accounting for human beings. - -We made good time; and a couple of hours before sunset we stood -upon the high confines of the Valley of Holiness, and our eyes -swept it from end to end and noted its features. That is, its -large features. These were the three masses of buildings. They -were distant and isolated temporalities shrunken to toy constructions -in the lonely waste of what seemed a desert--and was. Such a scene -is always mournful, it is so impressively still, and looks so -steeped in death. But there was a sound here which interrupted -the stillness only to add to its mournfulness; this was the faint -far sound of tolling bells which floated fitfully to us on the -passing breeze, and so faintly, so softly, that we hardly knew -whether we heard it with our ears or with our spirits. - -We reached the monastery before dark, and there the males were -given lodging, but the women were sent over to the nunnery. The -bells were close at hand now, and their solemn booming smote -upon the ear like a message of doom. A superstitious despair -possessed the heart of every monk and published itself in his -ghastly face. Everywhere, these black-robed, soft-sandaled, -tallow-visaged specters appeared, flitted about and disappeared, -noiseless as the creatures of a troubled dream, and as uncanny. - -The old abbot's joy to see me was pathetic. Even to tears; but -he did the shedding himself. He said: - -"Delay not, son, but get to thy saving work. An we bring not -the water back again, and soon, we are ruined, and the good work -of two hundred years must end. And see thou do it with enchantments -that be holy, for the Church will not endure that work in her cause -be done by devil's magic." - -"When I work, Father, be sure there will be no devil's work -connected with it. I shall use no arts that come of the devil, -and no elements not created by the hand of God. But is Merlin -working strictly on pious lines?" - -"Ah, he said he would, my son, he said he would, and took oath -to make his promise good." - -"Well, in that case, let him proceed." - -"But surely you will not sit idle by, but help?" - -"It will not answer to mix methods, Father; neither would it be -professional courtesy. Two of a trade must not underbid each -other. We might as well cut rates and be done with it; it would -arrive at that in the end. Merlin has the contract; no other -magician can touch it till he throws it up." - -"But I will take it from him; it is a terrible emergency and the -act is thereby justified. And if it were not so, who will give -law to the Church? The Church giveth law to all; and what she -wills to do, that she may do, hurt whom it may. I will take it -from him; you shall begin upon the moment." - -"It may not be, Father. No doubt, as you say, where power is -supreme, one can do as one likes and suffer no injury; but we poor -magicians are not so situated. Merlin is a very good magician -in a small way, and has quite a neat provincial reputation. He -is struggling along, doing the best he can, and it would not be -etiquette for me to take his job until he himself abandons it." - -The abbot's face lighted. - -"Ah, that is simple. There are ways to persuade him to abandon it." - -"No-no, Father, it skills not, as these people say. If he were -persuaded against his will, he would load that well with a malicious -enchantment which would balk me until I found out its secret. -It might take a month. I could set up a little enchantment of -mine which I call the telephone, and he could not find out its -secret in a hundred years. Yes, you perceive, he might block me -for a month. Would you like to risk a month in a dry time like this?" - -"A month! The mere thought of it maketh me to shudder. Have it -thy way, my son. But my heart is heavy with this disappointment. -Leave me, and let me wear my spirit with weariness and waiting, -even as I have done these ten long days, counterfeiting thus -the thing that is called rest, the prone body making outward sign -of repose where inwardly is none." - -Of course, it would have been best, all round, for Merlin to waive -etiquette and quit and call it half a day, since he would never be -able to start that water, for he was a true magician of the time; -which is to say, the big miracles, the ones that gave him his -reputation, always had the luck to be performed when nobody but -Merlin was present; he couldn't start this well with all this crowd -around to see; a crowd was as bad for a magician's miracle in -that day as it was for a spiritualist's miracle in mine; there was -sure to be some skeptic on hand to turn up the gas at the crucial -moment and spoil everything. But I did not want Merlin to retire -from the job until I was ready to take hold of it effectively -myself; and I could not do that until I got my things from Camelot, -and that would take two or three days. - -My presence gave the monks hope, and cheered them up a good deal; -insomuch that they ate a square meal that night for the first time -in ten days. As soon as their stomachs had been properly reinforced -with food, their spirits began to rise fast; when the mead began to -go round they rose faster. By the time everybody was half-seas over, -the holy community was in good shape to make a night of it; so we -stayed by the board and put it through on that line. Matters got -to be very jolly. Good old questionable stories were told that made -the tears run down and cavernous mouths stand wide and the round -bellies shake with laughter; and questionable songs were bellowed out -in a mighty chorus that drowned the boom of the tolling bells. - -At last I ventured a story myself; and vast was the success of it. -Not right off, of course, for the native of those islands does -not, as a rule, dissolve upon the early applications of a humorous -thing; but the fifth time I told it, they began to crack in places; -the eight time I told it, they began to crumble; at the twelfth -repetition they fell apart in chunks; and at the fifteenth they -disintegrated, and I got a broom and swept them up. This language -is figurative. Those islanders--well, they are slow pay at first, -in the matter of return for your investment of effort, but in the end -they make the pay of all other nations poor and small by contrast. - -I was at the well next day betimes. Merlin was there, enchanting -away like a beaver, but not raising the moisture. He was not in -a pleasant humor; and every time I hinted that perhaps this contract -was a shade too hefty for a novice he unlimbered his tongue and -cursed like a bishop--French bishop of the Regency days, I mean. - -Matters were about as I expected to find them. The "fountain" was -an ordinary well, it had been dug in the ordinary way, and stoned up -in the ordinary way. There was no miracle about it. Even the lie -that had created its reputation was not miraculous; I could have -told it myself, with one hand tied behind me. The well was in a -dark chamber which stood in the center of a cut-stone chapel, whose -walls were hung with pious pictures of a workmanship that would -have made a chromo feel good; pictures historically commemorative -of curative miracles which had been achieved by the waters when -nobody was looking. That is, nobody but angels; they are always -on deck when there is a miracle to the fore--so as to get put in -the picture, perhaps. Angels are as fond of that as a fire company; -look at the old masters. - -The well-chamber was dimly lighted by lamps; the water was drawn -with a windlass and chain by monks, and poured into troughs which -delivered it into stone reservoirs outside in the chapel--when -there was water to draw, I mean--and none but monks could enter -the well-chamber. I entered it, for I had temporary authority -to do so, by courtesy of my professional brother and subordinate. -But he hadn't entered it himself. He did everything by incantations; -he never worked his intellect. If he had stepped in there and used -his eyes, instead of his disordered mind, he could have cured -the well by natural means, and then turned it into a miracle in -the customary way; but no, he was an old numskull, a magician who -believed in his own magic; and no magician can thrive who is -handicapped with a superstition like that. - -I had an idea that the well had sprung a leak; that some of the -wall stones near the bottom had fallen and exposed fissures that -allowed the water to escape. I measured the chain--98 feet. Then -I called in a couple of monks, locked the door, took a candle, and -made them lower me in the bucket. When the chain was all paid out, -the candle confirmed my suspicion; a considerable section of the -wall was gone, exposing a good big fissure. - -I almost regretted that my theory about the well's trouble was -correct, because I had another one that had a showy point or two -about it for a miracle. I remembered that in America, many -centuries later, when an oil well ceased to flow, they used to -blast it out with a dynamite torpedo. If I should find this well -dry and no explanation of it, I could astonish these people most -nobly by having a person of no especial value drop a dynamite -bomb into it. It was my idea to appoint Merlin. However, it was -plain that there was no occasion for the bomb. One cannot have -everything the way he would like it. A man has no business to -be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his -mind to get even. That is what I did. I said to myself, I am in no -hurry, I can wait; that bomb will come good yet. And it did, too. - -When I was above ground again, I turned out the monks, and let down -a fish-line; the well was a hundred and fifty feet deep, and there -was forty-one feet of water in it. I called in a monk and asked: - -"How deep is the well?" - -"That, sir, I wit not, having never been told." - -"How does the water usually stand in it?" - -"Near to the top, these two centuries, as the testimony goeth, -brought down to us through our predecessors." - -It was true--as to recent times at least--for there was witness -to it, and better witness than a monk; only about twenty or thirty -feet of the chain showed wear and use, the rest of it was unworn -and rusty. What had happened when the well gave out that other -time? Without doubt some practical person had come along and -mended the leak, and then had come up and told the abbot he had -discovered by divination that if the sinful bath were destroyed -the well would flow again. The leak had befallen again now, and -these children would have prayed, and processioned, and tolled -their bells for heavenly succor till they all dried up and blew -away, and no innocent of them all would ever have thought to drop -a fish-line into the well or go down in it and find out what was -really the matter. Old habit of mind is one of the toughest things -to get away from in the world. It transmits itself like physical -form and feature; and for a man, in those days, to have had an idea -that his ancestors hadn't had, would have brought him under suspicion -of being illegitimate. I said to the monk: - -"It is a difficult miracle to restore water in a dry well, but we -will try, if my brother Merlin fails. Brother Merlin is a very -passable artist, but only in the parlor-magic line, and he may -not succeed; in fact, is not likely to succeed. But that should -be nothing to his discredit; the man that can do _this_ kind of -miracle knows enough to keep hotel." - -"Hotel? I mind not to have heard--" - -"Of hotel? It's what you call hostel. The man that can do this -miracle can keep hostel. I can do this miracle; I shall do this -miracle; yet I do not try to conceal from you that it is a miracle -to tax the occult powers to the last strain." - -"None knoweth that truth better than the brotherhood, indeed; for -it is of record that aforetime it was parlous difficult and took -a year. Natheless, God send you good success, and to that end -will we pray." - -As a matter of business it was a good idea to get the notion around -that the thing was difficult. Many a small thing has been made -large by the right kind of advertising. That monk was filled up -with the difficulty of this enterprise; he would fill up the others. -In two days the solicitude would be booming. - -On my way home at noon, I met Sandy. She had been sampling the -hermits. I said: - -"I would like to do that myself. This is Wednesday. Is there -a matinee?" - -"A which, please you, sir?" - -"Matinee. Do they keep open afternoons?" - -"Who?" - -"The hermits, of course." - -"Keep open?" - -"Yes, keep open. Isn't that plain enough? Do they knock off at noon?" - -"Knock off?" - -"Knock off?--yes, knock off. What is the matter with knock off? -I never saw such a dunderhead; can't you understand anything at all? -In plain terms, do they shut up shop, draw the game, bank the fires--" - -"Shut up shop, draw--" - -"There, never mind, let it go; you make me tired. You can't seem -to understand the simplest thing." - -"I would I might please thee, sir, and it is to me dole and sorrow -that I fail, albeit sith I am but a simple damsel and taught of -none, being from the cradle unbaptized in those deep waters of -learning that do anoint with a sovereignty him that partaketh of -that most noble sacrament, investing him with reverend state to -the mental eye of the humble mortal who, by bar and lack of that -great consecration seeth in his own unlearned estate but a symbol -of that other sort of lack and loss which men do publish to the -pitying eye with sackcloth trappings whereon the ashes of grief -do lie bepowdered and bestrewn, and so, when such shall in the -darkness of his mind encounter these golden phrases of high mystery, -these shut-up-shops, and draw-the-game, and bank-the-fires, it is -but by the grace of God that he burst not for envy of the mind that -can beget, and tongue that can deliver so great and mellow-sounding -miracles of speech, and if there do ensue confusion in that humbler -mind, and failure to divine the meanings of these wonders, then -if so be this miscomprehension is not vain but sooth and true, -wit ye well it is the very substance of worshipful dear homage and -may not lightly be misprized, nor had been, an ye had noted this -complexion of mood and mind and understood that that I would -I could not, and that I could not I might not, nor yet nor might -_nor_ could, nor might-not nor could-not, might be by advantage -turned to the desired _would_, and so I pray you mercy of my fault, -and that ye will of your kindness and your charity forgive it, good -my master and most dear lord." - -I couldn't make it all out--that is, the details--but I got the -general idea; and enough of it, too, to be ashamed. It was not -fair to spring those nineteenth century technicalities upon the -untutored infant of the sixth and then rail at her because she -couldn't get their drift; and when she was making the honest best -drive at it she could, too, and no fault of hers that she couldn't -fetch the home plate; and so I apologized. Then we meandered -pleasantly away toward the hermit holes in sociable converse -together, and better friends than ever. - -I was gradually coming to have a mysterious and shuddery reverence -for this girl; nowadays whenever she pulled out from the station -and got her train fairly started on one of those horizonless -transcontinental sentences of hers, it was borne in upon me that -I was standing in the awful presence of the Mother of the German -Language. I was so impressed with this, that sometimes when she -began to empty one of these sentences on me I unconsciously took -the very attitude of reverence, and stood uncovered; and if words -had been water, I had been drowned, sure. She had exactly the -German way; whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a -mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, -she would get it into a single sentence or die. Whenever the literary -German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see -of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his -verb in his mouth. - -We drifted from hermit to hermit all the afternoon. It was a most -strange menagerie. The chief emulation among them seemed to be, -to see which could manage to be the uncleanest and most prosperous -with vermin. Their manner and attitudes were the last expression -of complacent self-righteousness. It was one anchorite's pride -to lie naked in the mud and let the insects bite him and blister -him unmolested; it was another's to lean against a rock, all day -long, conspicuous to the admiration of the throng of pilgrims -and pray; it was another's to go naked and crawl around on all fours; -it was another's to drag about with him, year in and year out, -eighty pounds of iron; it was another's to never lie down when -he slept, but to stand among the thorn-bushes and snore when there -were pilgrims around to look; a woman, who had the white hair of -age, and no other apparel, was black from crown to heel with -forty-seven years of holy abstinence from water. Groups of gazing -pilgrims stood around all and every of these strange objects, lost -in reverent wonder, and envious of the fleckless sanctity which -these pious austerities had won for them from an exacting heaven. - -By and by we went to see one of the supremely great ones. He was -a mighty celebrity; his fame had penetrated all Christendom; the -noble and the renowned journeyed from the remotest lands on the globe -to pay him reverence. His stand was in the center of the widest part -of the valley; and it took all that space to hold his crowds. - -His stand was a pillar sixty feet high, with a broad platform on -the top of it. He was now doing what he had been doing every day -for twenty years up there--bowing his body ceaselessly and rapidly -almost to his feet. It was his way of praying. I timed him with a -stop watch, and he made 1,244 revolutions in 24 minutes and -46 seconds. It seemed a pity to have all this power going to waste. -It was one of the most useful motions in mechanics, the pedal -movement; so I made a note in my memorandum book, purposing some -day to apply a system of elastic cords to him and run a sewing -machine with it. I afterward carried out that scheme, and got -five years' good service out of him; in which time he turned out -upward of eighteen thousand first-rate tow-linen shirts, which -was ten a day. I worked him Sundays and all; he was going, Sundays, -the same as week days, and it was no use to waste the power. -These shirts cost me nothing but just the mere trifle for the -materials--I furnished those myself, it would not have been right -to make him do that--and they sold like smoke to pilgrims at a -dollar and a half apiece, which was the price of fifty cows or -a blooded race horse in Arthurdom. They were regarded as a perfect -protection against sin, and advertised as such by my knights -everywhere, with the paint-pot and stencil-plate; insomuch that -there was not a cliff or a bowlder or a dead wall in England but -you could read on it at a mile distance: - -"Buy the only genuine St. Stylite; patronized by the Nobility. -Patent applied for." - -There was more money in the business than one knew what to do with. -As it extended, I brought out a line of goods suitable for kings, -and a nobby thing for duchesses and that sort, with ruffles down -the forehatch and the running-gear clewed up with a featherstitch -to leeward and then hauled aft with a back-stay and triced up with -a half-turn in the standing rigging forward of the weather-gaskets. -Yes, it was a daisy. - -But about that time I noticed that the motive power had taken to -standing on one leg, and I found that there was something the matter -with the other one; so I stocked the business and unloaded, taking -Sir Bors de Ganis into camp financially along with certain of his -friends; for the works stopped within a year, and the good saint -got him to his rest. But he had earned it. I can say that for him. - -When I saw him that first time--however, his personal condition -will not quite bear description here. You can read it in the -Lives of the Saints.* - -[*All the details concerning the hermits, in this chapter, are from -Lecky--but greatly modified. This book not being a history but -only a tale, the majority of the historian's frank details were too -strong for reproduction in it.--_Editor_] - - - -CHAPTER XXIII - -RESTORATION OF THE FOUNTAIN - -Saturday noon I went to the well and looked on a while. Merlin -was still burning smoke-powders, and pawing the air, and muttering -gibberish as hard as ever, but looking pretty down-hearted, for -of course he had not started even a perspiration in that well yet. -Finally I said: - -"How does the thing promise by this time, partner?" - -"Behold, I am even now busied with trial of the powerfulest -enchantment known to the princes of the occult arts in the lands -of the East; an it fail me, naught can avail. Peace, until I finish." - -He raised a smoke this time that darkened all the region, and must -have made matters uncomfortable for the hermits, for the wind -was their way, and it rolled down over their dens in a dense and -billowy fog. He poured out volumes of speech to match, and contorted -his body and sawed the air with his hands in a most extraordinary -way. At the end of twenty minutes he dropped down panting, and -about exhausted. Now arrived the abbot and several hundred monks -and nuns, and behind them a multitude of pilgrims and a couple of -acres of foundlings, all drawn by the prodigious smoke, and all -in a grand state of excitement. The abbot inquired anxiously for -results. Merlin said: - -"If any labor of mortal might break the spell that binds these -waters, this which I have but just essayed had done it. It has -failed; whereby I do now know that that which I had feared is -a truth established; the sign of this failure is, that the most -potent spirit known to the magicians of the East, and whose name -none may utter and live, has laid his spell upon this well. The -mortal does not breathe, nor ever will, who can penetrate the secret -of that spell, and without that secret none can break it. The -water will flow no more forever, good Father. I have done what -man could. Suffer me to go." - -Of course this threw the abbot into a good deal of a consternation. -He turned to me with the signs of it in his face, and said: - -"Ye have heard him. Is it true?" - -"Part of it is." - -"Not all, then, not all! What part is true?" - -"That that spirit with the Russian name has put his spell -upon the well." - -"God's wounds, then are we ruined!" - -"Possibly." - -"But not certainly? Ye mean, not certainly?" - -"That is it." - -"Wherefore, ye also mean that when he saith none can break the spell--" - -"Yes, when he says that, he says what isn't necessarily true. -There are conditions under which an effort to break it may have -some chance--that is, some small, some trifling chance--of success." - -"The conditions--" - -"Oh, they are nothing difficult. Only these: I want the well -and the surroundings for the space of half a mile, entirely to -myself from sunset to-day until I remove the ban--and nobody -allowed to cross the ground but by my authority." - -"Are these all?" - -"Yes." - -"And you have no fear to try?" - -"Oh, none. One may fail, of course; and one may also succeed. -One can try, and I am ready to chance it. I have my conditions?" - -"These and all others ye may name. I will issue commandment -to that effect." - -"Wait," said Merlin, with an evil smile. "Ye wit that he that -would break this spell must know that spirit's name?" - -"Yes, I know his name." - -"And wit you also that to know it skills not of itself, but ye -must likewise pronounce it? Ha-ha! Knew ye that?" - -"Yes, I knew that, too." - -"You had that knowledge! Art a fool? Are ye minded to utter -that name and die?" - -"Utter it? Why certainly. I would utter it if it was Welsh." - -"Ye are even a dead man, then; and I go to tell Arthur." - -"That's all right. Take your gripsack and get along. The thing -for _you_ to do is to go home and work the weather, John W. Merlin." - -It was a home shot, and it made him wince; for he was the worst -weather-failure in the kingdom. Whenever he ordered up the -danger-signals along the coast there was a week's dead calm, sure, -and every time he prophesied fair weather it rained brickbats. -But I kept him in the weather bureau right along, to undermine -his reputation. However, that shot raised his bile, and instead -of starting home to report my death, he said he would remain -and enjoy it. - -My two experts arrived in the evening, and pretty well fagged, -for they had traveled double tides. They had pack-mules along, -and had brought everything I needed--tools, pump, lead pipe, -Greek fire, sheaves of big rockets, roman candles, colored fire -sprays, electric apparatus, and a lot of sundries--everything -necessary for the stateliest kind of a miracle. They got their -supper and a nap, and about midnight we sallied out through a -solitude so wholly vacant and complete that it quite overpassed -the required conditions. We took possession of the well and its -surroundings. My boys were experts in all sorts of things, from -the stoning up of a well to the constructing of a mathematical -instrument. An hour before sunrise we had that leak mended in -ship-shape fashion, and the water began to rise. Then we stowed our -fireworks in the chapel, locked up the place, and went home to bed. - -Before the noon mass was over, we were at the well again; for there -was a deal to do yet, and I was determined to spring the miracle -before midnight, for business reasons: for whereas a miracle -worked for the Church on a week-day is worth a good deal, it is -worth six times as much if you get it in on a Sunday. In nine hours -the water had risen to its customary level--that is to say, it was -within twenty-three feet of the top. We put in a little iron pump, -one of the first turned out by my works near the capital; we bored -into a stone reservoir which stood against the outer wall of the -well-chamber and inserted a section of lead pipe that was long -enough to reach to the door of the chapel and project beyond -the threshold, where the gushing water would be visible to the -two hundred and fifty acres of people I was intending should be -present on the flat plain in front of this little holy hillock at -the proper time. - -We knocked the head out of an empty hogshead and hoisted this -hogshead to the flat roof of the chapel, where we clamped it down -fast, poured in gunpowder till it lay loosely an inch deep on the -bottom, then we stood up rockets in the hogshead as thick as they -could loosely stand, all the different breeds of rockets there are; -and they made a portly and imposing sheaf, I can tell you. We -grounded the wire of a pocket electrical battery in that powder, -we placed a whole magazine of Greek fire on each corner of the -roof--blue on one corner, green on another, red on another, and -purple on the last--and grounded a wire in each. - -About two hundred yards off, in the flat, we built a pen of -scantlings, about four feet high, and laid planks on it, and so -made a platform. We covered it with swell tapestries borrowed -for the occasion, and topped it off with the abbot's own throne. -When you are going to do a miracle for an ignorant race, you want -to get in every detail that will count; you want to make all the -properties impressive to the public eye; you want to make matters -comfortable for your head guest; then you can turn yourself loose -and play your effects for all they are worth. I know the value of -these things, for I know human nature. You can't throw too much -style into a miracle. It costs trouble, and work, and sometimes -money; but it pays in the end. Well, we brought the wires to -the ground at the chapel, and then brought them under the ground -to the platform, and hid the batteries there. We put a rope fence -a hundred feet square around the platform to keep off the common -multitude, and that finished the work. My idea was, doors open -at 10:30, performance to begin at 11:25 sharp. I wished I could -charge admission, but of course that wouldn't answer. I instructed -my boys to be in the chapel as early as 10, before anybody was -around, and be ready to man the pumps at the proper time, and -make the fur fly. Then we went home to supper. - -The news of the disaster to the well had traveled far by this time; -and now for two or three days a steady avalanche of people had -been pouring into the valley. The lower end of the valley was -become one huge camp; we should have a good house, no question -about that. Criers went the rounds early in the evening and -announced the coming attempt, which put every pulse up to fever -heat. They gave notice that the abbot and his official suite would -move in state and occupy the platform at 10:30, up to which time -all the region which was under my ban must be clear; the bells -would then cease from tolling, and this sign should be permission -to the multitudes to close in and take their places. - -I was at the platform and all ready to do the honors when the -abbot's solemn procession hove in sight--which it did not do till -it was nearly to the rope fence, because it was a starless black -night and no torches permitted. With it came Merlin, and took -a front seat on the platform; he was as good as his word for once. -One could not see the multitudes banked together beyond the ban, -but they were there, just the same. The moment the bells stopped, -those banked masses broke and poured over the line like a vast -black wave, and for as much as a half hour it continued to flow, -and then it solidified itself, and you could have walked upon -a pavement of human heads to--well, miles. - -We had a solemn stage-wait, now, for about twenty minutes--a thing -I had counted on for effect; it is always good to let your audience -have a chance to work up its expectancy. At length, out of the -silence a noble Latin chant--men's voices--broke and swelled up -and rolled away into the night, a majestic tide of melody. I had -put that up, too, and it was one of the best effects I ever invented. -When it was finished I stood up on the platform and extended my -hands abroad, for two minutes, with my face uplifted--that always -produces a dead hush--and then slowly pronounced this ghastly word -with a kind of awfulness which caused hundreds to tremble, and -many women to faint: - -"Constantinopolitanischerdudelsackspfeifenmachersgesellschafft!" - -Just as I was moaning out the closing hunks of that word, I touched -off one of my electric connections and all that murky world of -people stood revealed in a hideous blue glare! It was immense ---that effect! Lots of people shrieked, women curled up and quit -in every direction, foundlings collapsed by platoons. The abbot -and the monks crossed themselves nimbly and their lips fluttered -with agitated prayers. Merlin held his grip, but he was astonished -clear down to his corns; he had never seen anything to begin -with that, before. Now was the time to pile in the effects. I lifted -my hands and groaned out this word--as it were in agony: - -"Nihilistendynamittheaterkaestchenssprengungsattentaetsversuchungen!" - ---and turned on the red fire! You should have heard that Atlantic -of people moan and howl when that crimson hell joined the blue! -After sixty seconds I shouted: - -"Transvaaltruppentropentransporttrampelthiertreibertrauungsthraenen- -tragoedie!" - ---and lit up the green fire! After waiting only forty seconds this -time, I spread my arms abroad and thundered out the devastating -syllables of this word of words: - -"Mekkamuselmannenmassenmenchenmoerdermohrenmuttermarmormonumentenmacher!" - ---and whirled on the purple glare! There they were, all going -at once, red, blue, green, purple!--four furious volcanoes pouring -vast clouds of radiant smoke aloft, and spreading a blinding -rainbowed noonday to the furthest confines of that valley. In -the distance one could see that fellow on the pillar standing rigid -against the background of sky, his seesaw stopped for the first -time in twenty years. I knew the boys were at the pump now and -ready. So I said to the abbot: - -"The time is come, Father. I am about to pronounce the dread name -and command the spell to dissolve. You want to brace up, and take -hold of something." Then I shouted to the people: "Behold, in -another minute the spell will be broken, or no mortal can break it. -If it break, all will know it, for you will see the sacred water -gush from the chapel door!" - -I stood a few moments, to let the hearers have a chance to spread -my announcement to those who couldn't hear, and so convey it -to the furthest ranks, then I made a grand exhibition of extra -posturing and gesturing, and shouted: - -"Lo, I command the fell spirit that possesses the holy fountain -to now disgorge into the skies all the infernal fires that still -remain in him, and straightway dissolve his spell and flee hence -to the pit, there to lie bound a thousand years. By his own dread -name I command it--BGWJJILLIGKKK!" - -Then I touched off the hogshead of rockets, and a vast fountain of -dazzling lances of fire vomited itself toward the zenith with a -hissing rush, and burst in mid-sky into a storm of flashing jewels! -One mighty groan of terror started up from the massed people ---then suddenly broke into a wild hosannah of joy--for there, fair -and plain in the uncanny glare, they saw the freed water leaping -forth! The old abbot could not speak a word, for tears and the -chokings in his throat; without utterance of any sort, he folded me -in his arms and mashed me. It was more eloquent than speech. -And harder to get over, too, in a country where there were really -no doctors that were worth a damaged nickel. - -You should have seen those acres of people throw themselves down -in that water and kiss it; kiss it, and pet it, and fondle it, and -talk to it as if it were alive, and welcome it back with the dear -names they gave their darlings, just as if it had been a friend who -was long gone away and lost, and was come home again. Yes, it was -pretty to see, and made me think more of them than I had done before. - -I sent Merlin home on a shutter. He had caved in and gone down -like a landslide when I pronounced that fearful name, and had -never come to since. He never had heard that name before,--neither -had I--but to him it was the right one. Any jumble would have -been the right one. He admitted, afterward, that that spirit's own -mother could not have pronounced that name better than I did. -He never could understand how I survived it, and I didn't tell -him. It is only young magicians that give away a secret like that. -Merlin spent three months working enchantments to try to find out -the deep trick of how to pronounce that name and outlive it. -But he didn't arrive. - -When I started to the chapel, the populace uncovered and fell back -reverently to make a wide way for me, as if I had been some kind -of a superior being--and I was. I was aware of that. I took along -a night shift of monks, and taught them the mystery of the pump, -and set them to work, for it was plain that a good part of the -people out there were going to sit up with the water all night, -consequently it was but right that they should have all they wanted -of it. To those monks that pump was a good deal of a miracle -itself, and they were full of wonder over it; and of admiration, -too, of the exceeding effectiveness of its performance. - -It was a great night, an immense night. There was reputation in it. -I could hardly get to sleep for glorying over it. - - - -CHAPTER XXIV - -A RIVAL MAGICIAN - -My influence in the Valley of Holiness was something prodigious -now. It seemed worth while to try to turn it to some valuable -account. The thought came to me the next morning, and was suggested -by my seeing one of my knights who was in the soap line come -riding in. According to history, the monks of this place two -centuries before had been worldly minded enough to want to wash. -It might be that there was a leaven of this unrighteousness still -remaining. So I sounded a Brother: - -"Wouldn't you like a bath?" - -He shuddered at the thought--the thought of the peril of it to -the well--but he said with feeling: - -"One needs not to ask that of a poor body who has not known that -blessed refreshment sith that he was a boy. Would God I might -wash me! but it may not be, fair sir, tempt me not; it is forbidden." - -And then he sighed in such a sorrowful way that I was resolved -he should have at least one layer of his real estate removed, -if it sized up my whole influence and bankrupted the pile. So I -went to the abbot and asked for a permit for this Brother. He -blenched at the idea--I don't mean that you could see him blench, -for of course you couldn't see it without you scraped him, and -I didn't care enough about it to scrape him, but I knew the blench -was there, just the same, and within a book-cover's thickness of -the surface, too--blenched, and trembled. He said: - -"Ah, son, ask aught else thou wilt, and it is thine, and freely -granted out of a grateful heart--but this, oh, this! Would you -drive away the blessed water again?" - -"No, Father, I will not drive it away. I have mysterious knowledge -which teaches me that there was an error that other time when -it was thought the institution of the bath banished the fountain." -A large interest began to show up in the old man's face. "My -knowledge informs me that the bath was innocent of that misfortune, -which was caused by quite another sort of sin." - -"These are brave words--but--but right welcome, if they be true." - -"They are true, indeed. Let me build the bath again, Father. -Let me build it again, and the fountain shall flow forever." - -"You promise this?--you promise it? Say the word--say you promise it!" - -"I do promise it." - -"Then will I have the first bath myself! Go--get ye to your work. -Tarry not, tarry not, but go." - -I and my boys were at work, straight off. The ruins of the old -bath were there yet in the basement of the monastery, not a stone -missing. They had been left just so, all these lifetimes, and -avoided with a pious fear, as things accursed. In two days we -had it all done and the water in--a spacious pool of clear pure -water that a body could swim in. It was running water, too. -It came in, and went out, through the ancient pipes. The old abbot -kept his word, and was the first to try it. He went down black -and shaky, leaving the whole black community above troubled and -worried and full of bodings; but he came back white and joyful, -and the game was made! another triumph scored. - -It was a good campaign that we made in that Valley of Holiness, -and I was very well satisfied, and ready to move on now, but -I struck a disappointment. I caught a heavy cold, and it started -up an old lurking rheumatism of mine. Of course the rheumatism -hunted up my weakest place and located itself there. This was -the place where the abbot put his arms about me and mashed me, what -time he was moved to testify his gratitude to me with an embrace. - -When at last I got out, I was a shadow. But everybody was full -of attentions and kindnesses, and these brought cheer back into -my life, and were the right medicine to help a convalescent swiftly -up toward health and strength again; so I gained fast. - -Sandy was worn out with nursing; so I made up my mind to turn out -and go a cruise alone, leaving her at the nunnery to rest up. -My idea was to disguise myself as a freeman of peasant degree -and wander through the country a week or two on foot. This would -give me a chance to eat and lodge with the lowliest and poorest -class of free citizens on equal terms. There was no other way -to inform myself perfectly of their everyday life and the operation -of the laws upon it. If I went among them as a gentleman, there -would be restraints and conventionalities which would shut me out -from their private joys and troubles, and I should get no further -than the outside shell. - -One morning I was out on a long walk to get up muscle for my trip, -and had climbed the ridge which bordered the northern extremity -of the valley, when I came upon an artificial opening in the face -of a low precipice, and recognized it by its location as a hermitage -which had often been pointed out to me from a distance as the den -of a hermit of high renown for dirt and austerity. I knew he had -lately been offered a situation in the Great Sahara, where lions -and sandflies made the hermit-life peculiarly attractive and -difficult, and had gone to Africa to take possession, so I thought -I would look in and see how the atmosphere of this den agreed -with its reputation. - -My surprise was great: the place was newly swept and scoured. -Then there was another surprise. Back in the gloom of the cavern -I heard the clink of a little bell, and then this exclamation: - -"Hello Central! Is this you, Camelot?--Behold, thou mayst glad -thy heart an thou hast faith to believe the wonderful when that -it cometh in unexpected guise and maketh itself manifest in -impossible places--here standeth in the flesh his mightiness -The Boss, and with thine own ears shall ye hear him speak!" - -Now what a radical reversal of things this was; what a jumbling -together of extravagant incongruities; what a fantastic conjunction -of opposites and irreconcilables--the home of the bogus miracle -become the home of a real one, the den of a mediaeval hermit turned -into a telephone office! - -The telephone clerk stepped into the light, and I recognized one -of my young fellows. I said: - -"How long has this office been established here, Ulfius?" - -"But since midnight, fair Sir Boss, an it please you. We saw many -lights in the valley, and so judged it well to make a station, -for that where so many lights be needs must they indicate a town -of goodly size." - -"Quite right. It isn't a town in the customary sense, but it's -a good stand, anyway. Do you know where you are?" - -"Of that I have had no time to make inquiry; for whenas my -comradeship moved hence upon their labors, leaving me in charge, -I got me to needed rest, purposing to inquire when I waked, and -report the place's name to Camelot for record." - -"Well, this is the Valley of Holiness." - -It didn't take; I mean, he didn't start at the name, as I had -supposed he would. He merely said: - -"I will so report it." - -"Why, the surrounding regions are filled with the noise of late -wonders that have happened here! You didn't hear of them?" - -"Ah, ye will remember we move by night, and avoid speech with all. -We learn naught but that we get by the telephone from Camelot." - -"Why _they_ know all about this thing. Haven't they told you anything -about the great miracle of the restoration of a holy fountain?" - -"Oh, _that_? Indeed yes. But the name of _this_ valley doth woundily -differ from the name of _that_ one; indeed to differ wider were not pos--" - -"What was that name, then?" - -"The Valley of Hellishness." - -"_That_ explains it. Confound a telephone, anyway. It is the very -demon for conveying similarities of sound that are miracles of -divergence from similarity of sense. But no matter, you know -the name of the place now. Call up Camelot." - -He did it, and had Clarence sent for. It was good to hear my boy's -voice again. It was like being home. After some affectionate -interchanges, and some account of my late illness, I said: - -"What is new?" - -"The king and queen and many of the court do start even in this -hour, to go to your valley to pay pious homage to the waters ye -have restored, and cleanse themselves of sin, and see the place -where the infernal spirit spouted true hell-flames to the clouds ---an ye listen sharply ye may hear me wink and hear me likewise -smile a smile, sith 'twas I that made selection of those flames -from out our stock and sent them by your order." - -"Does the king know the way to this place?" - -"The king?--no, nor to any other in his realms, mayhap; but the lads -that holp you with your miracle will be his guide and lead the way, -and appoint the places for rests at noons and sleeps at night." - -"This will bring them here--when?" - -"Mid-afternoon, or later, the third day." - -"Anything else in the way of news?" - -"The king hath begun the raising of the standing army ye suggested -to him; one regiment is complete and officered." - -"The mischief! I wanted a main hand in that myself. There is -only one body of men in the kingdom that are fitted to officer -a regular army." - -"Yes--and now ye will marvel to know there's not so much as one -West Pointer in that regiment." - -"What are you talking about? Are you in earnest?" - -"It is truly as I have said." - -"Why, this makes me uneasy. Who were chosen, and what was the -method? Competitive examination?" - -"Indeed, I know naught of the method. I but know this--these -officers be all of noble family, and are born--what is it you -call it?--chuckleheads." - -"There's something wrong, Clarence." - -"Comfort yourself, then; for two candidates for a lieutenancy do -travel hence with the king--young nobles both--and if you but wait -where you are you will hear them questioned." - -"That is news to the purpose. I will get one West Pointer in, -anyway. Mount a man and send him to that school with a message; -let him kill horses, if necessary, but he must be there before -sunset to-night and say--" - -"There is no need. I have laid a ground wire to the school. -Prithee let me connect you with it." - -It sounded good! In this atmosphere of telephones and lightning -communication with distant regions, I was breathing the breath -of life again after long suffocation. I realized, then, what a -creepy, dull, inanimate horror this land had been to me all these -years, and how I had been in such a stifled condition of mind as -to have grown used to it almost beyond the power to notice it. - -I gave my order to the superintendent of the Academy personally. -I also asked him to bring me some paper and a fountain pen and -a box or so of safety matches. I was getting tired of doing -without these conveniences. I could have them now, as I wasn't -going to wear armor any more at present, and therefore could get -at my pockets. - -When I got back to the monastery, I found a thing of interest -going on. The abbot and his monks were assembled in the great -hall, observing with childish wonder and faith the performances -of a new magician, a fresh arrival. His dress was the extreme of -the fantastic; as showy and foolish as the sort of thing an Indian -medicine-man wears. He was mowing, and mumbling, and gesticulating, -and drawing mystical figures in the air and on the floor,--the -regular thing, you know. He was a celebrity from Asia--so he -said, and that was enough. That sort of evidence was as good -as gold, and passed current everywhere. - -How easy and cheap it was to be a great magician on this fellow's -terms. His specialty was to tell you what any individual on the -face of the globe was doing at the moment; and what he had done -at any time in the past, and what he would do at any time in the -future. He asked if any would like to know what the Emperor of -the East was doing now? The sparkling eyes and the delighted rubbing -of hands made eloquent answer--this reverend crowd _would_ like to -know what that monarch was at, just as this moment. The fraud -went through some more mummery, and then made grave announcement: - -"The high and mighty Emperor of the East doth at this moment put -money in the palm of a holy begging friar--one, two, three pieces, -and they be all of silver." - -A buzz of admiring exclamations broke out, all around: - -"It is marvelous!" "Wonderful!" "What study, what labor, to have -acquired a so amazing power as this!" - -Would they like to know what the Supreme Lord of Inde was doing? -Yes. He told them what the Supreme Lord of Inde was doing. Then -he told them what the Sultan of Egypt was at; also what the King -of the Remote Seas was about. And so on and so on; and with each -new marvel the astonishment at his accuracy rose higher and higher. -They thought he must surely strike an uncertain place some time; -but no, he never had to hesitate, he always knew, and always with -unerring precision. I saw that if this thing went on I should lose -my supremacy, this fellow would capture my following, I should -be left out in the cold. I must put a cog in his wheel, and do it -right away, too. I said: - -"If I might ask, I should very greatly like to know what a certain -person is doing." - -"Speak, and freely. I will tell you." - -"It will be difficult--perhaps impossible." - -"My art knoweth not that word. The more difficult it is, the more -certainly will I reveal it to you." - -You see, I was working up the interest. It was getting pretty -high, too; you could see that by the craning necks all around, -and the half-suspended breathing. So now I climaxed it: - -"If you make no mistake--if you tell me truly what I want to -know--I will give you two hundred silver pennies." - -"The fortune is mine! I will tell you what you would know." - -"Then tell me what I am doing with my right hand." - -"Ah-h!" There was a general gasp of surprise. It had not occurred -to anybody in the crowd--that simple trick of inquiring about -somebody who wasn't ten thousand miles away. The magician was -hit hard; it was an emergency that had never happened in his -experience before, and it corked him; he didn't know how to meet -it. He looked stunned, confused; he couldn't say a word. "Come," -I said, "what are you waiting for? Is it possible you can answer up, -right off, and tell what anybody on the other side of the earth is -doing, and yet can't tell what a person is doing who isn't three -yards from you? Persons behind me know what I am doing with my -right hand--they will indorse you if you tell correctly." He was -still dumb. "Very well, I'll tell you why you don't speak up and -tell; it is because you don't know. _You_ a magician! Good friends, -this tramp is a mere fraud and liar." - -This distressed the monks and terrified them. They were not used -to hearing these awful beings called names, and they did not know -what might be the consequence. There was a dead silence now; -superstitious bodings were in every mind. The magician began to -pull his wits together, and when he presently smiled an easy, -nonchalant smile, it spread a mighty relief around; for it indicated -that his mood was not destructive. He said: - -"It hath struck me speechless, the frivolity of this person's -speech. Let all know, if perchance there be any who know it not, -that enchanters of my degree deign not to concern themselves with -the doings of any but kings, princes, emperors, them that be born -in the purple and them only. Had ye asked me what Arthur the great -king is doing, it were another matter, and I had told ye; but the -doings of a subject interest me not." - -"Oh, I misunderstood you. I thought you said 'anybody,' and so -I supposed 'anybody' included--well, anybody; that is, everybody." - -"It doth--anybody that is of lofty birth; and the better if -he be royal." - -"That, it meseemeth, might well be," said the abbot, who saw his -opportunity to smooth things and avert disaster, "for it were not -likely that so wonderful a gift as this would be conferred for -the revelation of the concerns of lesser beings than such as be -born near to the summits of greatness. Our Arthur the king--" - -"Would you know of him?" broke in the enchanter. - -"Most gladly, yea, and gratefully." - -Everybody was full of awe and interest again right away, the -incorrigible idiots. They watched the incantations absorbingly, -and looked at me with a "There, now, what can you say to that?" -air, when the announcement came: - -"The king is weary with the chase, and lieth in his palace these -two hours sleeping a dreamless sleep." - -"God's benison upon him!" said the abbot, and crossed himself; -"may that sleep be to the refreshment of his body and his soul." - -"And so it might be, if he were sleeping," I said, "but the king -is not sleeping, the king rides." - -Here was trouble again--a conflict of authority. Nobody knew which -of us to believe; I still had some reputation left. The magician's -scorn was stirred, and he said: - -"Lo, I have seen many wonderful soothsayers and prophets and -magicians in my life days, but none before that could sit idle and -see to the heart of things with never an incantation to help." - -"You have lived in the woods, and lost much by it. I use incantations -myself, as this good brotherhood are aware--but only on occasions -of moment." - -When it comes to sarcasming, I reckon I know how to keep my end up. -That jab made this fellow squirm. The abbot inquired after the -queen and the court, and got this information: - -"They be all on sleep, being overcome by fatigue, like as to the king." - -I said: - -"That is merely another lie. Half of them are about their amusements, -the queen and the other half are not sleeping, they ride. Now -perhaps you can spread yourself a little, and tell us where the king -and queen and all that are this moment riding with them are going?" - -"They sleep now, as I said; but on the morrow they will ride, -for they go a journey toward the sea." - -"And where will they be the day after to-morrow at vespers?" - -"Far to the north of Camelot, and half their journey will be done." - -"That is another lie, by the space of a hundred and fifty miles. -Their journey will not be merely half done, it will be all done, -and they will be _here_, in this valley." - -_That_ was a noble shot! It set the abbot and the monks in a whirl -of excitement, and it rocked the enchanter to his base. I followed -the thing right up: - -"If the king does not arrive, I will have myself ridden on a rail: -if he does I will ride you on a rail instead." - -Next day I went up to the telephone office and found that the king -had passed through two towns that were on the line. I spotted -his progress on the succeeding day in the same way. I kept these -matters to myself. The third day's reports showed that if he -kept up his gait he would arrive by four in the afternoon. There -was still no sign anywhere of interest in his coming; there seemed -to be no preparations making to receive him in state; a strange -thing, truly. Only one thing could explain this: that other -magician had been cutting under me, sure. This was true. I asked -a friend of mine, a monk, about it, and he said, yes, the magician -had tried some further enchantments and found out that the court -had concluded to make no journey at all, but stay at home. Think -of that! Observe how much a reputation was worth in such a country. -These people had seen me do the very showiest bit of magic in -history, and the only one within their memory that had a positive -value, and yet here they were, ready to take up with an adventurer -who could offer no evidence of his powers but his mere unproven word. - -However, it was not good politics to let the king come without -any fuss and feathers at all, so I went down and drummed up a -procession of pilgrims and smoked out a batch of hermits and -started them out at two o'clock to meet him. And that was the -sort of state he arrived in. The abbot was helpless with rage -and humiliation when I brought him out on a balcony and showed -him the head of the state marching in and never a monk on hand to -offer him welcome, and no stir of life or clang of joy-bell to glad -his spirit. He took one look and then flew to rouse out his forces. -The next minute the bells were dinning furiously, and the various -buildings were vomiting monks and nuns, who went swarming in a -rush toward the coming procession; and with them went that magician ---and he was on a rail, too, by the abbot's order; and his reputation -was in the mud, and mine was in the sky again. Yes, a man can -keep his trademark current in such a country, but he can't sit -around and do it; he has got to be on deck and attending to business -right along. - - - -CHAPTER XXV - -A COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION - -When the king traveled for change of air, or made a progress, or -visited a distant noble whom he wished to bankrupt with the cost -of his keep, part of the administration moved with him. It was -a fashion of the time. The Commission charged with the examination -of candidates for posts in the army came with the king to the -Valley, whereas they could have transacted their business just -as well at home. And although this expedition was strictly a -holiday excursion for the king, he kept some of his business -functions going just the same. He touched for the evil, as usual; -he held court in the gate at sunrise and tried cases, for he was -himself Chief Justice of the King's Bench. - -He shone very well in this latter office. He was a wise and humane -judge, and he clearly did his honest best and fairest,--according -to his lights. That is a large reservation. His lights--I mean -his rearing--often colored his decisions. Whenever there was a -dispute between a noble or gentleman and a person of lower degree, -the king's leanings and sympathies were for the former class always, -whether he suspected it or not. It was impossible that this should -be otherwise. The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's -moral perceptions are known and conceded, the world over; and a -privileged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders -under another name. This has a harsh sound, and yet should not -be offensive to any--even to the noble himself--unless the fact -itself be an offense: for the statement simply formulates a fact. -The repulsive feature of slavery is the _thing_, not its name. One -needs but to hear an aristocrat speak of the classes that are below -him to recognize--and in but indifferently modified measure ---the very air and tone of the actual slaveholder; and behind these -are the slaveholder's spirit, the slaveholder's blunted feeling. -They are the result of the same cause in both cases: the possessor's -old and inbred custom of regarding himself as a superior being. -The king's judgments wrought frequent injustices, but it was merely -the fault of his training, his natural and unalterable sympathies. -He was as unfitted for a judgeship as would be the average mother -for the position of milk-distributor to starving children in -famine-time; her own children would fare a shade better than the rest. - -One very curious case came before the king. A young girl, an -orphan, who had a considerable estate, married a fine young fellow -who had nothing. The girl's property was within a seigniory held -by the Church. The bishop of the diocese, an arrogant scion of -the great nobility, claimed the girl's estate on the ground that -she had married privately, and thus had cheated the Church out -of one of its rights as lord of the seigniory--the one heretofore -referred to as le droit du seigneur. The penalty of refusal or -avoidance was confiscation. The girl's defense was, that the -lordship of the seigniory was vested in the bishop, and the -particular right here involved was not transferable, but must be -exercised by the lord himself or stand vacated; and that an older -law, of the Church itself, strictly barred the bishop from exercising -it. It was a very odd case, indeed. - -It reminded me of something I had read in my youth about the -ingenious way in which the aldermen of London raised the money -that built the Mansion House. A person who had not taken the -Sacrament according to the Anglican rite could not stand as a -candidate for sheriff of London. Thus Dissenters were ineligible; -they could not run if asked, they could not serve if elected. -The aldermen, who without any question were Yankees in disguise, -hit upon this neat device: they passed a by-law imposing a fine -of L400 upon any one who should refuse to be a candidate for -sheriff, and a fine of L600 upon any person who, after being -elected sheriff, refused to serve. Then they went to work and -elected a lot of Dissenters, one after another, and kept it up -until they had collected L15,000 in fines; and there stands the -stately Mansion House to this day, to keep the blushing citizen -in mind of a long past and lamented day when a band of Yankees -slipped into London and played games of the sort that has given -their race a unique and shady reputation among all truly good -and holy peoples that be in the earth. - -The girl's case seemed strong to me; the bishop's case was just -as strong. I did not see how the king was going to get out of -this hole. But he got out. I append his decision: - -"Truly I find small difficulty here, the matter being even a -child's affair for simpleness. An the young bride had conveyed -notice, as in duty bound, to her feudal lord and proper master -and protector the bishop, she had suffered no loss, for the said -bishop could have got a dispensation making him, for temporary -conveniency, eligible to the exercise of his said right, and thus -would she have kept all she had. Whereas, failing in her first -duty, she hath by that failure failed in all; for whoso, clinging -to a rope, severeth it above his hands, must fall; it being no -defense to claim that the rest of the rope is sound, neither any -deliverance from his peril, as he shall find. Pardy, the woman's -case is rotten at the source. It is the decree of the court that -she forfeit to the said lord bishop all her goods, even to the -last farthing that she doth possess, and be thereto mulcted in -the costs. Next!" - -Here was a tragic end to a beautiful honeymoon not yet three months -old. Poor young creatures! They had lived these three months -lapped to the lips in worldly comforts. These clothes and trinkets -they were wearing were as fine and dainty as the shrewdest stretch -of the sumptuary laws allowed to people of their degree; and in -these pretty clothes, she crying on his shoulder, and he trying -to comfort her with hopeful words set to the music of despair, -they went from the judgment seat out into the world homeless, -bedless, breadless; why, the very beggars by the roadsides were -not so poor as they. - -Well, the king was out of the hole; and on terms satisfactory to -the Church and the rest of the aristocracy, no doubt. Men write -many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but -the fact remains that where every man in a State has a vote, brutal -laws are impossible. Arthur's people were of course poor material -for a republic, because they had been debased so long by monarchy; -and yet even they would have been intelligent enough to make short -work of that law which the king had just been administering if it -had been submitted to their full and free vote. There is a phrase -which has grown so common in the world's mouth that it has come -to seem to have sense and meaning--the sense and meaning implied -when it is used; that is the phrase which refers to this or that or -the other nation as possibly being "capable of self-government"; -and the implied sense of it is, that there has been a nation -somewhere, some time or other which _wasn't_ capable of it--wasn't as -able to govern itself as some self-appointed specialists were or -would be to govern it. The master minds of all nations, in all -ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, -and from the mass of the nation only--not from its privileged -classes; and so, no matter what the nation's intellectual grade -was; whether high or low, the bulk of its ability was in the long -ranks of its nameless and its poor, and so it never saw the day -that it had not the material in abundance whereby to govern itself. -Which is to assert an always self-proven fact: that even the best -governed and most free and most enlightened monarchy is still -behind the best condition attainable by its people; and that the -same is true of kindred governments of lower grades, all the way -down to the lowest. - -King Arthur had hurried up the army business altogether beyond -my calculations. I had not supposed he would move in the matter -while I was away; and so I had not mapped out a scheme for determining -the merits of officers; I had only remarked that it would be wise -to submit every candidate to a sharp and searching examination; -and privately I meant to put together a list of military qualifications -that nobody could answer to but my West Pointers. That ought -to have been attended to before I left; for the king was so taken -with the idea of a standing army that he couldn't wait but must -get about it at once, and get up as good a scheme of examination -as he could invent out of his own head. - -I was impatient to see what this was; and to show, too, how much -more admirable was the one which I should display to the Examining -Board. I intimated this, gently, to the king, and it fired his -curiosity. When the Board was assembled, I followed him in; and -behind us came the candidates. One of these candidates was a bright -young West Pointer of mine, and with him were a couple of my -West Point professors. - -When I saw the Board, I did not know whether to cry or to laugh. -The head of it was the officer known to later centuries as Norroy -King-at-Arms! The two other members were chiefs of bureaus in -his department; and all three were priests, of course; all officials -who had to know how to read and write were priests. - -My candidate was called first, out of courtesy to me, and the head -of the Board opened on him with official solemnity: - -"Name?" - -"Mal-ease." - -"Son of?" - -"Webster." - -"Webster--Webster. H'm--I--my memory faileth to recall the -name. Condition?" - -"Weaver." - -"Weaver!--God keep us!" - -The king was staggered, from his summit to his foundations; one -clerk fainted, and the others came near it. The chairman pulled -himself together, and said indignantly: - -"It is sufficient. Get you hence." - -But I appealed to the king. I begged that my candidate might be -examined. The king was willing, but the Board, who were all -well-born folk, implored the king to spare them the indignity of -examining the weaver's son. I knew they didn't know enough to -examine him anyway, so I joined my prayers to theirs and the king -turned the duty over to my professors. I had had a blackboard -prepared, and it was put up now, and the circus began. It was -beautiful to hear the lad lay out the science of war, and wallow -in details of battle and siege, of supply, transportation, mining -and countermining, grand tactics, big strategy and little strategy, -signal service, infantry, cavalry, artillery, and all about siege -guns, field guns, gatling guns, rifled guns, smooth bores, musket -practice, revolver practice--and not a solitary word of it all -could these catfish make head or tail of, you understand--and it -was handsome to see him chalk off mathematical nightmares on the -blackboard that would stump the angels themselves, and do it like -nothing, too--all about eclipses, and comets, and solstices, and -constellations, and mean time, and sidereal time, and dinner time, -and bedtime, and every other imaginable thing above the clouds or -under them that you could harry or bullyrag an enemy with and make -him wish he hadn't come--and when the boy made his military salute -and stood aside at last, I was proud enough to hug him, and all -those other people were so dazed they looked partly petrified, -partly drunk, and wholly caught out and snowed under. I judged -that the cake was ours, and by a large majority. - -Education is a great thing. This was the same youth who had come -to West Point so ignorant that when I asked him, "If a general -officer should have a horse shot under him on the field of battle, -what ought he to do?" answered up naively and said: - -"Get up and brush himself." - -One of the young nobles was called up now. I thought I would -question him a little myself. I said: - -"Can your lordship read?" - -His face flushed indignantly, and he fired this at me: - -"Takest me for a clerk? I trow I am not of a blood that--" - -"Answer the question!" - -He crowded his wrath down and made out to answer "No." - -"Can you write?" - -He wanted to resent this, too, but I said: - -"You will confine yourself to the questions, and make no comments. -You are not here to air your blood or your graces, and nothing -of the sort will be permitted. Can you write?" - -"No." - -"Do you know the multiplication table?" - -"I wit not what ye refer to." - -"How much is 9 times 6?" - -"It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency -requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, -and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren -of the knowledge." - -"If A trade a barrel of onions to B, worth 2 pence the bushel, -in exchange for a sheep worth 4 pence and a dog worth a penny, -and C kill the dog before delivery, because bitten by the same, -who mistook him for D, what sum is still due to A from B, and -which party pays for the dog, C or D, and who gets the money? -If A, is the penny sufficient, or may he claim consequential damages -in the form of additional money to represent the possible profit -which might have inured from the dog, and classifiable as earned -increment, that is to say, usufruct?" - -"Verily, in the all-wise and unknowable providence of God, who -moveth in mysterious ways his wonders to perform, have I never -heard the fellow to this question for confusion of the mind and -congestion of the ducts of thought. Wherefore I beseech you let -the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless -names work out their several salvations from their piteous and -wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their -trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should -but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself -to see the desolation wrought." - -"What do you know of the laws of attraction and gravitation?" - -"If there be such, mayhap his grace the king did promulgate them -whilst that I lay sick about the beginning of the year and thereby -failed to hear his proclamation." - -"What do you know of the science of optics?" - -"I know of governors of places, and seneschals of castles, and -sheriffs of counties, and many like small offices and titles of -honor, but him you call the Science of Optics I have not heard -of before; peradventure it is a new dignity." - -"Yes, in this country." - -Try to conceive of this mollusk gravely applying for an official -position, of any kind under the sun! Why, he had all the earmarks -of a typewriter copyist, if you leave out the disposition to -contribute uninvited emendations of your grammar and punctuation. -It was unaccountable that he didn't attempt a little help of that -sort out of his majestic supply of incapacity for the job. But that -didn't prove that he hadn't material in him for the disposition, -it only proved that he wasn't a typewriter copyist yet. After -nagging him a little more, I let the professors loose on him and -they turned him inside out, on the line of scientific war, and -found him empty, of course. He knew somewhat about the warfare -of the time--bushwhacking around for ogres, and bull-fights in -the tournament ring, and such things--but otherwise he was empty -and useless. Then we took the other young noble in hand, and he -was the first one's twin, for ignorance and incapacity. I delivered -them into the hands of the chairman of the Board with the comfortable -consciousness that their cake was dough. They were examined in -the previous order of precedence. - -"Name, so please you?" - -"Pertipole, son of Sir Pertipole, Baron of Barley Mash." - -"Grandfather?" - -"Also Sir Pertipole, Baron of Barley Mash." - -"Great-grandfather?" - -"The same name and title." - -"Great-great-grandfather?" - -"We had none, worshipful sir, the line failing before it had -reached so far back." - -"It mattereth not. It is a good four generations, and fulfilleth -the requirements of the rule." - -"Fulfills what rule?" I asked. - -"The rule requiring four generations of nobility or else the -candidate is not eligible." - -"A man not eligible for a lieutenancy in the army unless he can -prove four generations of noble descent?" - -"Even so; neither lieutenant nor any other officer may be commissioned -without that qualification." - -"Oh, come, this is an astonishing thing. What good is such a -qualification as that?" - -"What good? It is a hardy question, fair sir and Boss, since it doth -go far to impugn the wisdom of even our holy Mother Church herself." - -"As how?" - -"For that she hath established the self-same rule regarding -saints. By her law none may be canonized until he hath lain dead -four generations." - -"I see, I see--it is the same thing. It is wonderful. In the one -case a man lies dead-alive four generations--mummified in ignorance -and sloth--and that qualifies him to command live people, and take -their weal and woe into his impotent hands; and in the other case, -a man lies bedded with death and worms four generations, and that -qualifies him for office in the celestial camp. Does the king's -grace approve of this strange law?" - -The king said: - -"Why, truly I see naught about it that is strange. All places of -honor and of profit do belong, by natural right, to them that be -of noble blood, and so these dignities in the army are their -property and would be so without this or any rule. The rule is -but to mark a limit. Its purpose is to keep out too recent blood, -which would bring into contempt these offices, and men of lofty -lineage would turn their backs and scorn to take them. I were -to blame an I permitted this calamity. _You_ can permit it an you -are minded so to do, for you have the delegated authority, but -that the king should do it were a most strange madness and not -comprehensible to any." - -"I yield. Proceed, sir Chief of the Herald's College." - -The chairman resumed as follows: - -"By what illustrious achievement for the honor of the Throne and -State did the founder of your great line lift himself to the -sacred dignity of the British nobility?" - -"He built a brewery." - -"Sire, the Board finds this candidate perfect in all the requirements -and qualifications for military command, and doth hold his case -open for decision after due examination of his competitor." - -The competitor came forward and proved exactly four generations -of nobility himself. So there was a tie in military qualifications -that far. - -He stood aside a moment, and Sir Pertipole was questioned further: - -"Of what condition was the wife of the founder of your line?" - -"She came of the highest landed gentry, yet she was not noble; -she was gracious and pure and charitable, of a blameless life and -character, insomuch that in these regards was she peer of the -best lady in the land." - -"That will do. Stand down." He called up the competing lordling -again, and asked: "What was the rank and condition of the -great-grandmother who conferred British nobility upon your -great house?" - -"She was a king's leman and did climb to that splendid eminence -by her own unholpen merit from the sewer where she was born." - -"Ah, this, indeed, is true nobility, this is the right and perfect -intermixture. The lieutenancy is yours, fair lord. Hold it not in -contempt; it is the humble step which will lead to grandeurs more -worthy of the splendor of an origin like to thine." - -I was down in the bottomless pit of humiliation. I had promised -myself an easy and zenith-scouring triumph, and this was the outcome! - -I was almost ashamed to look my poor disappointed cadet in the -face. I told him to go home and be patient, this wasn't the end. - -I had a private audience with the king, and made a proposition. -I said it was quite right to officer that regiment with nobilities, -and he couldn't have done a wiser thing. It would also be a good -idea to add five hundred officers to it; in fact, add as many -officers as there were nobles and relatives of nobles in the -country, even if there should finally be five times as many officers -as privates in it; and thus make it the crack regiment, the envied -regiment, the King's Own regiment, and entitled to fight on its -own hook and in its own way, and go whither it would and come -when it pleased, in time of war, and be utterly swell and independent. -This would make that regiment the heart's desire of all the -nobility, and they would all be satisfied and happy. Then we -would make up the rest of the standing army out of commonplace -materials, and officer it with nobodies, as was proper--nobodies -selected on a basis of mere efficiency--and we would make this -regiment toe the line, allow it no aristocratic freedom from -restraint, and force it to do all the work and persistent hammering, -to the end that whenever the King's Own was tired and wanted to go -off for a change and rummage around amongst ogres and have a good -time, it could go without uneasiness, knowing that matters were in -safe hands behind it, and business going to be continued at the -old stand, same as usual. The king was charmed with the idea. - -When I noticed that, it gave me a valuable notion. I thought -I saw my way out of an old and stubborn difficulty at last. You -see, the royalties of the Pendragon stock were a long-lived race -and very fruitful. Whenever a child was born to any of these ---and it was pretty often--there was wild joy in the nation's mouth, -and piteous sorrow in the nation's heart. The joy was questionable, -but the grief was honest. Because the event meant another call -for a Royal Grant. Long was the list of these royalties, and -they were a heavy and steadily increasing burden upon the treasury -and a menace to the crown. Yet Arthur could not believe this -latter fact, and he would not listen to any of my various projects -for substituting something in the place of the royal grants. If I -could have persuaded him to now and then provide a support for -one of these outlying scions from his own pocket, I could have -made a grand to-do over it, and it would have had a good effect -with the nation; but no, he wouldn't hear of such a thing. He had -something like a religious passion for royal grant; he seemed to -look upon it as a sort of sacred swag, and one could not irritate -him in any way so quickly and so surely as by an attack upon that -venerable institution. If I ventured to cautiously hint that there -was not another respectable family in England that would humble -itself to hold out the hat--however, that is as far as I ever got; -he always cut me short there, and peremptorily, too. - -But I believed I saw my chance at last. I would form this crack -regiment out of officers alone--not a single private. Half of it -should consist of nobles, who should fill all the places up to -Major-General, and serve gratis and pay their own expenses; and -they would be glad to do this when they should learn that the rest -of the regiment would consist exclusively of princes of the blood. -These princes of the blood should range in rank from Lieutenant-General -up to Field Marshal, and be gorgeously salaried and equipped and -fed by the state. Moreover--and this was the master stroke ---it should be decreed that these princely grandees should be always -addressed by a stunningly gaudy and awe-compelling title (which -I would presently invent), and they and they only in all England -should be so addressed. Finally, all princes of the blood should -have free choice; join that regiment, get that great title, and -renounce the royal grant, or stay out and receive a grant. Neatest -touch of all: unborn but imminent princes of the blood could be -_born_ into the regiment, and start fair, with good wages and a -permanent situation, upon due notice from the parents. - -All the boys would join, I was sure of that; so, all existing -grants would be relinquished; that the newly born would always -join was equally certain. Within sixty days that quaint and -bizarre anomaly, the Royal Grant, would cease to be a living fact, -and take its place among the curiosities of the past. - - - -CHAPTER XXVI - -THE FIRST NEWSPAPER - -When I told the king I was going out disguised as a petty freeman -to scour the country and familiarize myself with the humbler life -of the people, he was all afire with the novelty of the thing -in a minute, and was bound to take a chance in the adventure -himself--nothing should stop him--he would drop everything and -go along--it was the prettiest idea he had run across for many -a day. He wanted to glide out the back way and start at once; -but I showed him that that wouldn't answer. You see, he was billed -for the king's-evil--to touch for it, I mean--and it wouldn't be -right to disappoint the house and it wouldn't make a delay worth -considering, anyway, it was only a one-night stand. And I thought -he ought to tell the queen he was going away. He clouded up at -that and looked sad. I was sorry I had spoken, especially when -he said mournfully: - -"Thou forgettest that Launcelot is here; and where Launcelot is, -she noteth not the going forth of the king, nor what day he returneth." - -Of course, I changed the Subject. Yes, Guenever was beautiful, -it is true, but take her all around she was pretty slack. I never -meddled in these matters, they weren't my affair, but I did hate -to see the way things were going on, and I don't mind saying that -much. Many's the time she had asked me, "Sir Boss, hast seen -Sir Launcelot about?" but if ever she went fretting around for -the king I didn't happen to be around at the time. - -There was a very good lay-out for the king's-evil business--very -tidy and creditable. The king sat under a canopy of state; about -him were clustered a large body of the clergy in full canonicals. -Conspicuous, both for location and personal outfit, stood Marinel, -a hermit of the quack-doctor species, to introduce the sick. All -abroad over the spacious floor, and clear down to the doors, -in a thick jumble, lay or sat the scrofulous, under a strong light. -It was as good as a tableau; in fact, it had all the look of being -gotten up for that, though it wasn't. There were eight hundred -sick people present. The work was slow; it lacked the interest -of novelty for me, because I had seen the ceremonies before; -the thing soon became tedious, but the proprieties required me -to stick it out. The doctor was there for the reason that in all -such crowds there were many people who only imagined something -was the matter with them, and many who were consciously sound -but wanted the immortal honor of fleshly contact with a king, and -yet others who pretended to illness in order to get the piece of -coin that went with the touch. Up to this time this coin had been -a wee little gold piece worth about a third of a dollar. When you -consider how much that amount of money would buy, in that age -and country, and how usual it was to be scrofulous, when not dead, -you would understand that the annual king's-evil appropriation was -just the River and Harbor bill of that government for the grip it -took on the treasury and the chance it afforded for skinning the -surplus. So I had privately concluded to touch the treasury itself -for the king's-evil. I covered six-sevenths of the appropriation -into the treasury a week before starting from Camelot on my -adventures, and ordered that the other seventh be inflated into -five-cent nickels and delivered into the hands of the head clerk -of the King's Evil Department; a nickel to take the place of each -gold coin, you see, and do its work for it. It might strain the -nickel some, but I judged it could stand it. As a rule, I do not -approve of watering stock, but I considered it square enough -in this case, for it was just a gift, anyway. Of course, you can -water a gift as much as you want to; and I generally do. The old -gold and silver coins of the country were of ancient and unknown -origin, as a rule, but some of them were Roman; they were ill-shapen, -and seldom rounder than a moon that is a week past the full; they -were hammered, not minted, and they were so worn with use that -the devices upon them were as illegible as blisters, and looked -like them. I judged that a sharp, bright new nickel, with a -first-rate likeness of the king on one side of it and Guenever -on the other, and a blooming pious motto, would take the tuck out -of scrofula as handy as a nobler coin and please the scrofulous -fancy more; and I was right. This batch was the first it was -tried on, and it worked to a charm. The saving in expense was -a notable economy. You will see that by these figures: We touched -a trifle over 700 of the 800 patients; at former rates, this would -have cost the government about $240; at the new rate we pulled -through for about $35, thus saving upward of $200 at one swoop. -To appreciate the full magnitude of this stroke, consider these -other figures: the annual expenses of a national government amount -to the equivalent of a contribution of three days' average wages of -every individual of the population, counting every individual as -if he were a man. If you take a nation of 60,000,000, where average -wages are $2 per day, three days' wages taken from each individual -will provide $360,000,000 and pay the government's expenses. In my -day, in my own country, this money was collected from imposts, -and the citizen imagined that the foreign importer paid it, and it -made him comfortable to think so; whereas, in fact, it was paid -by the American people, and was so equally and exactly distributed -among them that the annual cost to the 100-millionaire and the -annual cost to the sucking child of the day-laborer was precisely -the same--each paid $6. Nothing could be equaler than that, -I reckon. Well, Scotland and Ireland were tributary to Arthur, -and the united populations of the British Islands amounted to -something less than 1,000,000. A mechanic's average wage was -3 cents a day, when he paid his own keep. By this rule the national -government's expenses were $90,000 a year, or about $250 a day. -Thus, by the substitution of nickels for gold on a king's-evil -day, I not only injured no one, dissatisfied no one, but pleased -all concerned and saved four-fifths of that day's national expense -into the bargain--a saving which would have been the equivalent -of $800,000 in my day in America. In making this substitution -I had drawn upon the wisdom of a very remote source--the wisdom -of my boyhood--for the true statesman does not despise any wisdom, -howsoever lowly may be its origin: in my boyhood I had always -saved my pennies and contributed buttons to the foreign missionary -cause. The buttons would answer the ignorant savage as well as -the coin, the coin would answer me better than the buttons; all -hands were happy and nobody hurt. - -Marinel took the patients as they came. He examined the candidate; -if he couldn't qualify he was warned off; if he could he was passed -along to the king. A priest pronounced the words, "They shall -lay their hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Then the king -stroked the ulcers, while the reading continued; finally, the -patient graduated and got his nickel--the king hanging it around -his neck himself--and was dismissed. Would you think that that -would cure? It certainly did. Any mummery will cure if the -patient's faith is strong in it. Up by Astolat there was a chapel -where the Virgin had once appeared to a girl who used to herd -geese around there--the girl said so herself--and they built the -chapel upon that spot and hung a picture in it representing the -occurrence--a picture which you would think it dangerous for a sick -person to approach; whereas, on the contrary, thousands of the lame -and the sick came and prayed before it every year and went away -whole and sound; and even the well could look upon it and live. -Of course, when I was told these things I did not believe them; -but when I went there and saw them I had to succumb. I saw the -cures effected myself; and they were real cures and not questionable. -I saw cripples whom I had seen around Camelot for years on crutches, -arrive and pray before that picture, and put down their crutches -and walk off without a limp. There were piles of crutches there -which had been left by such people as a testimony. - -In other places people operated on a patient's mind, without saying -a word to him, and cured him. In others, experts assembled patients -in a room and prayed over them, and appealed to their faith, and -those patients went away cured. Wherever you find a king who can't -cure the king's-evil you can be sure that the most valuable -superstition that supports his throne--the subject's belief in -the divine appointment of his sovereign--has passed away. In my -youth the monarchs of England had ceased to touch for the evil, -but there was no occasion for this diffidence: they could have -cured it forty-nine times in fifty. - -Well, when the priest had been droning for three hours, and the -good king polishing the evidences, and the sick were still pressing -forward as plenty as ever, I got to feeling intolerably bored. -I was sitting by an open window not far from the canopy of state. -For the five hundredth time a patient stood forward to have his -repulsivenesses stroked; again those words were being droned out: -"they shall lay their hands on the sick"--when outside there rang -clear as a clarion a note that enchanted my soul and tumbled -thirteen worthless centuries about my ears: "Camelot _Weekly -Hosannah and Literary Volcano!_--latest irruption--only two cents ---all about the big miracle in the Valley of Holiness!" One greater -than kings had arrived--the newsboy. But I was the only person -in all that throng who knew the meaning of this mighty birth, and -what this imperial magician was come into the world to do. - -I dropped a nickel out of the window and got my paper; the -Adam-newsboy of the world went around the corner to get my change; -is around the corner yet. It was delicious to see a newspaper -again, yet I was conscious of a secret shock when my eye fell upon -the first batch of display head-lines. I had lived in a clammy -atmosphere of reverence, respect, deference, so long that they -sent a quivery little cold wave through me: - - - HIGH TIMES IN THE VALLEY - - OF HOLINESS! - - ---- - - THE WATER-WORKS CORKED! - - ---- - - BRER MERLIN WORKS HIS ARTS, BUT GETS - LEFT? - - ---- - - But the Boss scores on his first Innings! - - ---- - - The Miraculous Well Uncorked amid - awful outbursts of - - INFERNAL FIRE AND SMOKE - ATHUNDER! - - ---- - - THE BUZZARD-ROOST ASTONISHED! - - ---- - - UNPARALLELED REJOIBINGS! - - ---and so on, and so on. Yes, it was too loud. Once I could have -enjoyed it and seen nothing out of the way about it, but now its -note was discordant. It was good Arkansas journalism, but this -was not Arkansas. Moreover, the next to the last line was calculated -to give offense to the hermits, and perhaps lose us their advertising. -Indeed, there was too lightsome a tone of flippancy all through -the paper. It was plain I had undergone a considerable change -without noticing it. I found myself unpleasantly affected by -pert little irreverencies which would have seemed but proper and -airy graces of speech at an earlier period of my life. There was an -abundance of the following breed of items, and they discomforted me: - - LOCAL SMOKE AND CINDERS. - - Sir Launcelot met up with old King - Agrivance of Ireland unexpectedly last - weok over on the moor south of Sir - Balmoral le Merveilleuse's hog dasture. - The widow has been notified. - - Expedition No. 3 will start adout the - first of mext month on a search f8r Sir - Sagramour le Desirous. It is in com- - and of the renowned Knight of the Red - Lawns, assissted by Sir Persant of Inde, - who is compete9t. intelligent, courte- - ous, and in every way a brick, and fur- - tHer assisted by Sir Palamides the Sara- - cen, who is no huckleberry hinself. - This is no pic-nic, these boys mean - busine&s. - - The readers of the Hosannah will re- - gret to learn that the hadndsome and - popular Sir Charolais of Gaul, who dur- - ing his four weeks' stay at the Bull and - Halibut, this city, has won every heart - by his polished manners and elegant - cPnversation, will pUll out to-day for - home. Give us another call, Charley! - - The bdsiness end of the funeral of - the late Sir Dalliance the duke's son of - Cornwall, killed in an encounter with - the Giant of the Knotted Bludgeon last - Tuesday on the borders of the Plain of - Enchantment was in the hands of the - ever affable and efficient Mumble, - prince of un3ertakers, then whom there - exists none by whom it were a more - satisfying pleasure to have the last sad - offices performed. Give him a trial. - - The cordial thanks of the Hosannah - office are due, from editor down to - devil, to the ever courteous and thought- - ful Lord High Stew d of the Palace's - Third Assistant V t for several sau- - ceTs of ice crEam a quality calculated - to make the ey of the recipients hu- - mid with grt ude; and it done it. - When this administration wants to - chalk up a desirable name for early - promotion, the Hosannah would like a - chance to sudgest. - - The Demoiselle Irene Dewlap, of - South Astolat, is visiting her uncle, the - popular host of the Cattlemen's Board- - ing Ho&se, Liver Lane, this city. - - Young Barker the bellows-mender is - hoMe again, and looks much improved - by his vacation round-up among the out- - lying smithies. See his ad. - -Of course it was good enough journalism for a beginning; I knew -that quite well, and yet it was somehow disappointing. The -"Court Circular" pleased me better; indeed, its simple and dignified -respectfulness was a distinct refreshment to me after all those -disgraceful familiarities. But even it could have been improved. -Do what one may, there is no getting an air of variety into a court -circular, I acknowledge that. There is a profound monotonousness -about its facts that baffles and defeats one's sincerest efforts -to make them sparkle and enthuse. The best way to manage--in fact, -the only sensible way--is to disguise repetitiousness of fact under -variety of form: skin your fact each time and lay on a new cuticle -of words. It deceives the eye; you think it is a new fact; it -gives you the idea that the court is carrying on like everything; -this excites you, and you drain the whole column, with a good -appetite, and perhaps never notice that it's a barrel of soup made -out of a single bean. Clarence's way was good, it was simple, -it was dignified, it was direct and business-like; all I say is, -it was not the best way: - - COURT CIRCULAR. - - On Monday, the king rode in the park. - " Tuesday, " " " - " Wendesday " " " - " Thursday " " " - " Friday, " " " - " Saturday " " " - " Sunday, " " " - - -However, take the paper by and large, I was vastly pleased with it. -Little crudities of a mechanical sort were observable here and -there, but there were not enough of them to amount to anything, -and it was good enough Arkansas proof-reading, anyhow, and better -than was needed in Arthur's day and realm. As a rule, the grammar -was leaky and the construction more or less lame; but I did not -much mind these things. They are common defects of my own, and -one mustn't criticise other people on grounds where he can't stand -perpendicular himself. - -I was hungry enough for literature to want to take down the whole -paper at this one meal, but I got only a few bites, and then had -to postpone, because the monks around me besieged me so with eager -questions: What is this curious thing? What is it for? Is it a -handkerchief?--saddle blanket?--part of a shirt? What is it made of? -How thin it is, and how dainty and frail; and how it rattles. -Will it wear, do you think, and won't the rain injure it? Is it -writing that appears on it, or is it only ornamentation? They -suspected it was writing, because those among them who knew how -to read Latin and had a smattering of Greek, recognized some of -the letters, but they could make nothing out of the result as a -whole. I put my information in the simplest form I could: - -"It is a public journal; I will explain what that is, another time. -It is not cloth, it is made of paper; some time I will explain -what paper is. The lines on it are reading matter; and not written -by hand, but printed; by and by I will explain what printing is. -A thousand of these sheets have been made, all exactly like this, -in every minute detail--they can't be told apart." Then they all -broke out with exclamations of surprise and admiration: - -"A thousand! Verily a mighty work--a year's work for many men." - -"No--merely a day's work for a man and a boy." - -They crossed themselves, and whiffed out a protective prayer or two. - -"Ah-h--a miracle, a wonder! Dark work of enchantment." - -I let it go at that. Then I read in a low voice, to as many as -could crowd their shaven heads within hearing distance, part of -the account of the miracle of the restoration of the well, and -was accompanied by astonished and reverent ejaculations all through: -"Ah-h-h!" "How true!" "Amazing, amazing!" "These be the very -haps as they happened, in marvelous exactness!" And might they -take this strange thing in their hands, and feel of it and examine -it?--they would be very careful. Yes. So they took it, handling -it as cautiously and devoutly as if it had been some holy thing -come from some supernatural region; and gently felt of its texture, -caressed its pleasant smooth surface with lingering touch, and -scanned the mysterious characters with fascinated eyes. These -grouped bent heads, these charmed faces, these speaking eyes ---how beautiful to me! For was not this my darling, and was not -all this mute wonder and interest and homage a most eloquent -tribute and unforced compliment to it? I knew, then, how a mother -feels when women, whether strangers or friends, take her new baby, -and close themselves about it with one eager impulse, and bend -their heads over it in a tranced adoration that makes all the rest -of the universe vanish out of their consciousness and be as if it -were not, for that time. I knew how she feels, and that there is -no other satisfied ambition, whether of king, conqueror, or poet, -that ever reaches half-way to that serene far summit or yields half -so divine a contentment. - -During all the rest of the seance my paper traveled from group to -group all up and down and about that huge hall, and my happy eye -was upon it always, and I sat motionless, steeped in satisfaction, -drunk with enjoyment. Yes, this was heaven; I was tasting it once, -if I might never taste it more. - - - -CHAPTER XXVII - -THE YANKEE AND THE KING TRAVEL INCOGNITO - -About bedtime I took the king to my private quarters to cut his -hair and help him get the hang of the lowly raiment he was to wear. -The high classes wore their hair banged across the forehead but -hanging to the shoulders the rest of the way around, whereas the -lowest ranks of commoners were banged fore and aft both; the slaves -were bangless, and allowed their hair free growth. So I inverted -a bowl over his head and cut away all the locks that hung below it. -I also trimmed his whiskers and mustache until they were only -about a half-inch long; and tried to do it inartistically, and -succeeded. It was a villainous disfigurement. When he got his -lubberly sandals on, and his long robe of coarse brown linen cloth, -which hung straight from his neck to his ankle-bones, he was no -longer the comeliest man in his kingdom, but one of the unhandsomest -and most commonplace and unattractive. We were dressed and barbered -alike, and could pass for small farmers, or farm bailiffs, or -shepherds, or carters; yes, or for village artisans, if we chose, -our costume being in effect universal among the poor, because of -its strength and cheapness. I don't mean that it was really cheap -to a very poor person, but I do mean that it was the cheapest -material there was for male attire--manufactured material, you -understand. - -We slipped away an hour before dawn, and by broad sun-up had made -eight or ten miles, and were in the midst of a sparsely settled -country. I had a pretty heavy knapsack; it was laden with -provisions--provisions for the king to taper down on, till he -could take to the coarse fare of the country without damage. - -I found a comfortable seat for the king by the roadside, and then -gave him a morsel or two to stay his stomach with. Then I said -I would find some water for him, and strolled away. Part of my -project was to get out of sight and sit down and rest a little -myself. It had always been my custom to stand when in his presence; -even at the council board, except upon those rare occasions when -the sitting was a very long one, extending over hours; then I had -a trifling little backless thing which was like a reversed culvert -and was as comfortable as the toothache. I didn't want to break -him in suddenly, but do it by degrees. We should have to sit -together now when in company, or people would notice; but it would -not be good politics for me to be playing equality with him when -there was no necessity for it. - -I found the water some three hundred yards away, and had been -resting about twenty minutes, when I heard voices. That is all -right, I thought--peasants going to work; nobody else likely to be -stirring this early. But the next moment these comers jingled into -sight around a turn of the road--smartly clad people of quality, -with luggage-mules and servants in their train! I was off like -a shot, through the bushes, by the shortest cut. For a while it -did seem that these people would pass the king before I could -get to him; but desperation gives you wings, you know, and I canted -my body forward, inflated my breast, and held my breath and flew. -I arrived. And in plenty good enough time, too. - -"Pardon, my king, but it's no time for ceremony--jump! Jump to -your feet--some quality are coming!" - -"Is that a marvel? Let them come." - -"But my liege! You must not be seen sitting. Rise!--and stand in -humble posture while they pass. You are a peasant, you know." - -"True--I had forgot it, so lost was I in planning of a huge war -with Gaul"--he was up by this time, but a farm could have got up -quicker, if there was any kind of a boom in real estate--"and -right-so a thought came randoming overthwart this majestic dream -the which--" - -"A humbler attitude, my lord the king--and quick! Duck your head! ---more!--still more!--droop it!" - -He did his honest best, but lord, it was no great things. He looked -as humble as the leaning tower at Pisa. It is the most you could -say of it. Indeed, it was such a thundering poor success that -it raised wondering scowls all along the line, and a gorgeous -flunkey at the tail end of it raised his whip; but I jumped in -time and was under it when it fell; and under cover of the volley -of coarse laughter which followed, I spoke up sharply and warned -the king to take no notice. He mastered himself for the moment, -but it was a sore tax; he wanted to eat up the procession. I said: - -"It would end our adventures at the very start; and we, being -without weapons, could do nothing with that armed gang. If we -are going to succeed in our emprise, we must not only look the -peasant but act the peasant." - -"It is wisdom; none can gainsay it. Let us go on, Sir Boss. -I will take note and learn, and do the best I may." - -He kept his word. He did the best he could, but I've seen better. -If you have ever seen an active, heedless, enterprising child -going diligently out of one mischief and into another all day -long, and an anxious mother at its heels all the while, and just -saving it by a hair from drowning itself or breaking its neck with -each new experiment, you've seen the king and me. - -If I could have foreseen what the thing was going to be like, -I should have said, No, if anybody wants to make his living -exhibiting a king as a peasant, let him take the layout; I can -do better with a menagerie, and last longer. And yet, during -the first three days I never allowed him to enter a hut or other -dwelling. If he could pass muster anywhere during his early -novitiate it would be in small inns and on the road; so to these -places we confined ourselves. Yes, he certainly did the best he -could, but what of that? He didn't improve a bit that I could see. - -He was always frightening me, always breaking out with fresh -astonishers, in new and unexpected places. Toward evening on -the second day, what does he do but blandly fetch out a dirk -from inside his robe! - -"Great guns, my liege, where did you get that?" - -"From a smuggler at the inn, yester eve." - -"What in the world possessed you to buy it?" - -"We have escaped divers dangers by wit--thy wit--but I have -bethought me that it were but prudence if I bore a weapon, too. -Thine might fail thee in some pinch." - -"But people of our condition are not allowed to carry arms. What -would a lord say--yes, or any other person of whatever condition ---if he caught an upstart peasant with a dagger on his person?" - -It was a lucky thing for us that nobody came along just then. -I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as -persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing -itself. We walked along, silent and thinking. Finally the king said: - -"When ye know that I meditate a thing inconvenient, or that hath -a peril in it, why do you not warn me to cease from that project?" - -It was a startling question, and a puzzler. I didn't quite know -how to take hold of it, or what to say, and so, of course, I ended -by saying the natural thing: - -"But, sire, how can I know what your thoughts are?" - -The king stopped dead in his tracks, and stared at me. - -"I believed thou wert greater than Merlin; and truly in magic -thou art. But prophecy is greater than magic. Merlin is a prophet." - -I saw I had made a blunder. I must get back my lost ground. -After a deep reflection and careful planning, I said: - -"Sire, I have been misunderstood. I will explain. There are two -kinds of prophecy. One is the gift to foretell things that are but -a little way off, the other is the gift to foretell things that -are whole ages and centuries away. Which is the mightier gift, -do you think?" - -"Oh, the last, most surely!" - -"True. Does Merlin possess it?" - -"Partly, yes. He foretold mysteries about my birth and future -kingship that were twenty years away." - -"Has he ever gone beyond that?" - -"He would not claim more, I think." - -"It is probably his limit. All prophets have their limit. The limit -of some of the great prophets has been a hundred years." - -"These are few, I ween." - -"There have been two still greater ones, whose limit was four -hundred and six hundred years, and one whose limit compassed -even seven hundred and twenty." - -"Gramercy, it is marvelous!" - -"But what are these in comparison with me? They are nothing." - -"What? Canst thou truly look beyond even so vast a stretch -of time as--" - -"Seven hundred years? My liege, as clear as the vision of an eagle -does my prophetic eye penetrate and lay bare the future of this -world for nearly thirteen centuries and a half!" - -My land, you should have seen the king's eyes spread slowly open, -and lift the earth's entire atmosphere as much as an inch! That -settled Brer Merlin. One never had any occasion to prove his -facts, with these people; all he had to do was to state them. It -never occurred to anybody to doubt the statement. - -"Now, then," I continued, "I _could_ work both kinds of prophecy ---the long and the short--if I chose to take the trouble to keep -in practice; but I seldom exercise any but the long kind, because -the other is beneath my dignity. It is properer to Merlin's sort ---stump-tail prophets, as we call them in the profession. Of course, -I whet up now and then and flirt out a minor prophecy, but not -often--hardly ever, in fact. You will remember that there was -great talk, when you reached the Valley of Holiness, about my -having prophesied your coming and the very hour of your arrival, -two or three days beforehand." - -"Indeed, yes, I mind it now." - -"Well, I could have done it as much as forty times easier, and -piled on a thousand times more detail into the bargain, if it had -been five hundred years away instead of two or three days." - -"How amazing that it should be so!" - -"Yes, a genuine expert can always foretell a thing that is five -hundred years away easier than he can a thing that's only five -hundred seconds off." - -"And yet in reason it should clearly be the other way; it should -be five hundred times as easy to foretell the last as the first, -for, indeed, it is so close by that one uninspired might almost -see it. In truth, the law of prophecy doth contradict the likelihoods, -most strangely making the difficult easy, and the easy difficult." - -It was a wise head. A peasant's cap was no safe disguise for it; -you could know it for a king's under a diving-bell, if you could -hear it work its intellect. - -I had a new trade now, and plenty of business in it. The king -was as hungry to find out everything that was going to happen -during the next thirteen centuries as if he were expecting to live -in them. From that time out, I prophesied myself bald-headed -trying to supply the demand. I have done some indiscreet things in -my day, but this thing of playing myself for a prophet was the -worst. Still, it had its ameliorations. A prophet doesn't have -to have any brains. They are good to have, of course, for the -ordinary exigencies of life, but they are no use in professional -work. It is the restfulest vocation there is. When the spirit of -prophecy comes upon you, you merely cake your intellect and lay it -off in a cool place for a rest, and unship your jaw and leave it -alone; it will work itself: the result is prophecy. - -Every day a knight-errant or so came along, and the sight of them -fired the king's martial spirit every time. He would have forgotten -himself, sure, and said something to them in a style a suspicious -shade or so above his ostensible degree, and so I always got him -well out of the road in time. Then he would stand and look with -all his eyes; and a proud light would flash from them, and his -nostrils would inflate like a war-horse's, and I knew he was -longing for a brush with them. But about noon of the third day -I had stopped in the road to take a precaution which had been -suggested by the whip-stroke that had fallen to my share two days -before; a precaution which I had afterward decided to leave untaken, -I was so loath to institute it; but now I had just had a fresh -reminder: while striding heedlessly along, with jaw spread and -intellect at rest, for I was prophesying, I stubbed my toe and -fell sprawling. I was so pale I couldn't think for a moment; -then I got softly and carefully up and unstrapped my knapsack. -I had that dynamite bomb in it, done up in wool in a box. It was -a good thing to have along; the time would come when I could do -a valuable miracle with it, maybe, but it was a nervous thing -to have about me, and I didn't like to ask the king to carry it. -Yet I must either throw it away or think up some safe way to get -along with its society. I got it out and slipped it into my scrip, -and just then here came a couple of knights. The king stood, -stately as a statue, gazing toward them--had forgotten himself again, -of course--and before I could get a word of warning out, it was -time for him to skip, and well that he did it, too. He supposed -they would turn aside. Turn aside to avoid trampling peasant dirt -under foot? When had he ever turned aside himself--or ever had -the chance to do it, if a peasant saw him or any other noble knight -in time to judiciously save him the trouble? The knights paid -no attention to the king at all; it was his place to look out -himself, and if he hadn't skipped he would have been placidly -ridden down, and laughed at besides. - -The king was in a flaming fury, and launched out his challenge -and epithets with a most royal vigor. The knights were some little -distance by now. They halted, greatly surprised, and turned in -their saddles and looked back, as if wondering if it might be worth -while to bother with such scum as we. Then they wheeled and -started for us. Not a moment must be lost. I started for _them_. -I passed them at a rattling gait, and as I went by I flung out a -hair-lifting soul-scorching thirteen-jointed insult which made -the king's effort poor and cheap by comparison. I got it out of -the nineteenth century where they know how. They had such headway -that they were nearly to the king before they could check up; -then, frantic with rage, they stood up their horses on their hind -hoofs and whirled them around, and the next moment here they came, -breast to breast. I was seventy yards off, then, and scrambling up -a great bowlder at the roadside. When they were within thirty -yards of me they let their long lances droop to a level, depressed -their mailed heads, and so, with their horse-hair plumes streaming -straight out behind, most gallant to see, this lightning express -came tearing for me! When they were within fifteen yards, I sent -that bomb with a sure aim, and it struck the ground just under -the horses' noses. - -Yes, it was a neat thing, very neat and pretty to see. It resembled -a steamboat explosion on the Mississippi; and during the next -fifteen minutes we stood under a steady drizzle of microscopic -fragments of knights and hardware and horse-flesh. I say we, -for the king joined the audience, of course, as soon as he had got -his breath again. There was a hole there which would afford steady -work for all the people in that region for some years to come ---in trying to explain it, I mean; as for filling it up, that service -would be comparatively prompt, and would fall to the lot of a -select few--peasants of that seignory; and they wouldn't get -anything for it, either. - -But I explained it to the king myself. I said it was done with a -dynamite bomb. This information did him no damage, because it -left him as intelligent as he was before. However, it was a noble -miracle, in his eyes, and was another settler for Merlin. I thought -it well enough to explain that this was a miracle of so rare a sort -that it couldn't be done except when the atmospheric conditions -were just right. Otherwise he would be encoring it every time we -had a good subject, and that would be inconvenient, because I -hadn't any more bombs along. - - - -CHAPTER XXVIII - -DRILLING THE KING - -On the morning of the fourth day, when it was just sunrise, and we -had been tramping an hour in the chill dawn, I came to a resolution: -the king _must_ be drilled; things could not go on so, he must be -taken in hand and deliberately and conscientiously drilled, or we -couldn't ever venture to enter a dwelling; the very cats would know -this masquerader for a humbug and no peasant. So I called a halt -and said: - -"Sire, as between clothes and countenance, you are all right, there -is no discrepancy; but as between your clothes and your bearing, -you are all wrong, there is a most noticeable discrepancy. Your -soldierly stride, your lordly port--these will not do. You stand -too straight, your looks are too high, too confident. The cares -of a kingdom do not stoop the shoulders, they do not droop the chin, -they do not depress the high level of the eye-glance, they do not -put doubt and fear in the heart and hang out the signs of them -in slouching body and unsure step. It is the sordid cares of -the lowly born that do these things. You must learn the trick; -you must imitate the trademarks of poverty, misery, oppression, -insult, and the other several and common inhumanities that sap -the manliness out of a man and make him a loyal and proper and -approved subject and a satisfaction to his masters, or the very -infants will know you for better than your disguise, and we shall go -to pieces at the first hut we stop at. Pray try to walk like this." - -The king took careful note, and then tried an imitation. - -"Pretty fair--pretty fair. Chin a little lower, please--there, very -good. Eyes too high; pray don't look at the horizon, look at the -ground, ten steps in front of you. Ah--that is better, that is -very good. Wait, please; you betray too much vigor, too much -decision; you want more of a shamble. Look at me, please--this is -what I mean.... Now you are getting it; that is the idea--at least, -it sort of approaches it.... Yes, that is pretty fair. _But!_ -There is a great big something wanting, I don't quite know what -it is. Please walk thirty yards, so that I can get a perspective -on the thing.... Now, then--your head's right, speed's right, -shoulders right, eyes right, chin right, gait, carriage, general -style right--everything's right! And yet the fact remains, the -aggregate's wrong. The account don't balance. Do it again, -please.... _Now_ I think I begin to see what it is. Yes, I've -struck it. You see, the genuine spiritlessness is wanting; that's -what's the trouble. It's all _amateur_--mechanical details all -right, almost to a hair; everything about the delusion perfect, -except that it don't delude." - -"What, then, must one do, to prevail?" - -"Let me think... I can't seem to quite get at it. In fact, there -isn't anything that can right the matter but practice. This is -a good place for it: roots and stony ground to break up your -stately gait, a region not liable to interruption, only one field -and one hut in sight, and they so far away that nobody could -see us from there. It will be well to move a little off the road -and put in the whole day drilling you, sire." - -After the drill had gone on a little while, I said: - -"Now, sire, imagine that we are at the door of the hut yonder, -and the family are before us. Proceed, please--accost the head -of the house." - -The king unconsciously straightened up like a monument, and said, -with frozen austerity: - -"Varlet, bring a seat; and serve to me what cheer ye have." - -"Ah, your grace, that is not well done." - -"In what lacketh it?" - -"These people do not call _each other_ varlets." - -"Nay, is that true?" - -"Yes; only those above them call them so." - -"Then must I try again. I will call him villein." - -"No-no; for he may be a freeman." - -"Ah--so. Then peradventure I should call him goodman." - -"That would answer, your grace, but it would be still better if -you said friend, or brother." - -"Brother!--to dirt like that?" - -"Ah, but _we_ are pretending to be dirt like that, too." - -"It is even true. I will say it. Brother, bring a seat, and -thereto what cheer ye have, withal. Now 'tis right." - -"Not quite, not wholly right. You have asked for one, not _us_ ---for one, not both; food for one, a seat for one." - -The king looked puzzled--he wasn't a very heavy weight, intellectually. -His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do -it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once. - -"Would _you_ have a seat also--and sit?" - -"If I did not sit, the man would perceive that we were only pretending -to be equals--and playing the deception pretty poorly, too." - -"It is well and truly said! How wonderful is truth, come it in -whatsoever unexpected form it may! Yes, he must bring out seats -and food for both, and in serving us present not ewer and napkin -with more show of respect to the one than to the other." - -"And there is even yet a detail that needs correcting. He must -bring nothing outside; we will go in--in among the dirt, and -possibly other repulsive things,--and take the food with the -household, and after the fashion of the house, and all on equal -terms, except the man be of the serf class; and finally, there -will be no ewer and no napkin, whether he be serf or free. Please -walk again, my liege. There--it is better--it is the best yet; -but not perfect. The shoulders have known no ignobler burden -than iron mail, and they will not stoop." - -"Give me, then, the bag. I will learn the spirit that goeth -with burdens that have not honor. It is the spirit that stoopeth -the shoulders, I ween, and not the weight; for armor is heavy, -yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.... -Nay, but me no buts, offer me no objections. I will have the thing. -Strap it upon my back." - -He was complete now with that knapsack on, and looked as little -like a king as any man I had ever seen. But it was an obstinate -pair of shoulders; they could not seem to learn the trick of -stooping with any sort of deceptive naturalness. The drill went on, -I prompting and correcting: - -"Now, make believe you are in debt, and eaten up by relentless -creditors; you are out of work--which is horse-shoeing, let us -say--and can get none; and your wife is sick, your children are -crying because they are hungry--" - -And so on, and so on. I drilled him as representing in turn all -sorts of people out of luck and suffering dire privations and -misfortunes. But lord, it was only just words, words--they meant -nothing in the world to him, I might just as well have whistled. -Words realize nothing, vivify nothing to you, unless you have -suffered in your own person the thing which the words try to -describe. There are wise people who talk ever so knowingly and -complacently about "the working classes," and satisfy themselves -that a day's hard intellectual work is very much harder than -a day's hard manual toil, and is righteously entitled to much -bigger pay. Why, they really think that, you know, because they -know all about the one, but haven't tried the other. But I know -all about both; and so far as I am concerned, there isn't money -enough in the universe to hire me to swing a pickaxe thirty days, -but I will do the hardest kind of intellectual work for just as -near nothing as you can cipher it down--and I will be satisfied, too. - -Intellectual "work" is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, -and is its own highest reward. The poorest paid architect, -engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, -legislator, actor, preacher, singer is constructively in heaven -when he is at work; and as for the musician with the fiddle-bow -in his hand who sits in the midst of a great orchestra with the -ebbing and flowing tides of divine sound washing over him--why, -certainly, he is at work, if you wish to call it that, but lord, -it's a sarcasm just the same. The law of work does seem utterly -unfair--but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher -the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall -be his pay in cash, also. And it's also the very law of those -transparent swindles, transmissible nobility and kingship. - - - -CHAPTER XXIX - -THE SMALLPOX HUT - -When we arrived at that hut at mid-afternoon, we saw no signs -of life about it. The field near by had been denuded of its crop -some time before, and had a skinned look, so exhaustively had -it been harvested and gleaned. Fences, sheds, everything had a -ruined look, and were eloquent of poverty. No animal was around -anywhere, no living thing in sight. The stillness was awful, it -was like the stillness of death. The cabin was a one-story one, -whose thatch was black with age, and ragged from lack of repair. - -The door stood a trifle ajar. We approached it stealthily--on tiptoe -and at half-breath--for that is the way one's feeling makes him do, -at such a time. The king knocked. We waited. No answer. Knocked -again. No answer. I pushed the door softly open and looked in. -I made out some dim forms, and a woman started up from the ground -and stared at me, as one does who is wakened from sleep. Presently -she found her voice: - -"Have mercy!" she pleaded. "All is taken, nothing is left." - -"I have not come to take anything, poor woman." - -"You are not a priest?" - -"No." - -"Nor come not from the lord of the manor?" - -"No, I am a stranger." - -"Oh, then, for the fear of God, who visits with misery and death -such as be harmless, tarry not here, but fly! This place is under -his curse--and his Church's." - -"Let me come in and help you--you are sick and in trouble." - -I was better used to the dim light now. I could see her hollow -eyes fixed upon me. I could see how emaciated she was. - -"I tell you the place is under the Church's ban. Save yourself ---and go, before some straggler see thee here, and report it." - -"Give yourself no trouble about me; I don't care anything for the -Church's curse. Let me help you." - -"Now all good spirits--if there be any such--bless thee for that -word. Would God I had a sup of water!--but hold, hold, forget -I said it, and fly; for there is that here that even he that -feareth not the Church must fear: this disease whereof we die. -Leave us, thou brave, good stranger, and take with thee such -whole and sincere blessing as them that be accursed can give." - -But before this I had picked up a wooden bowl and was rushing -past the king on my way to the brook. It was ten yards away. -When I got back and entered, the king was within, and was opening -the shutter that closed the window-hole, to let in air and light. -The place was full of a foul stench. I put the bowl to the woman's -lips, and as she gripped it with her eager talons the shutter came -open and a strong light flooded her face. Smallpox! - -I sprang to the king, and said in his ear: - -"Out of the door on the instant, sire! the woman is dying of that -disease that wasted the skirts of Camelot two years ago." - -He did not budge. - -"Of a truth I shall remain--and likewise help." - -I whispered again: - -"King, it must not be. You must go." - -"Ye mean well, and ye speak not unwisely. But it were shame that -a king should know fear, and shame that belted knight should -withhold his hand where be such as need succor. Peace, I will -not go. It is you who must go. The Church's ban is not upon me, -but it forbiddeth you to be here, and she will deal with you with -a heavy hand an word come to her of your trespass." - -It was a desperate place for him to be in, and might cost him his -life, but it was no use to argue with him. If he considered his -knightly honor at stake here, that was the end of argument; he -would stay, and nothing could prevent it; I was aware of that. -And so I dropped the subject. The woman spoke: - -"Fair sir, of your kindness will ye climb the ladder there, -and bring me news of what ye find? Be not afraid to report, -for times can come when even a mother's heart is past breaking ---being already broke." - -"Abide," said the king, "and give the woman to eat. I will go." -And he put down the knapsack. - -I turned to start, but the king had already started. He halted, -and looked down upon a man who lay in a dim light, and had not -noticed us thus far, or spoken. - -"Is it your husband?" the king asked. - -"Yes." - -"Is he asleep?" - -"God be thanked for that one charity, yes--these three hours. -Where shall I pay to the full, my gratitude! for my heart is -bursting with it for that sleep he sleepeth now." - -I said: - -"We will be careful. We will not wake him." - -"Ah, no, that ye will not, for he is dead." - -"Dead?" - -"Yes, what triumph it is to know it! None can harm him, none -insult him more. He is in heaven now, and happy; or if not there, -he bides in hell and is content; for in that place he will find -neither abbot nor yet bishop. We were boy and girl together; we -were man and wife these five and twenty years, and never separated -till this day. Think how long that is to love and suffer together. -This morning was he out of his mind, and in his fancy we were -boy and girl again and wandering in the happy fields; and so in -that innocent glad converse wandered he far and farther, still -lightly gossiping, and entered into those other fields we know -not of, and was shut away from mortal sight. And so there was -no parting, for in his fancy I went with him; he knew not but -I went with him, my hand in his--my young soft hand, not this -withered claw. Ah, yes, to go, and know it not; to separate and -know it not; how could one go peace--fuller than that? It was -his reward for a cruel life patiently borne." - -There was a slight noise from the direction of the dim corner where -the ladder was. It was the king descending. I could see that he -was bearing something in one arm, and assisting himself with the -other. He came forward into the light; upon his breast lay a -slender girl of fifteen. She was but half conscious; she was dying -of smallpox. Here was heroism at its last and loftiest possibility, -its utmost summit; this was challenging death in the open field -unarmed, with all the odds against the challenger, no reward set -upon the contest, and no admiring world in silks and cloth of gold -to gaze and applaud; and yet the king's bearing was as serenely -brave as it had always been in those cheaper contests where knight -meets knight in equal fight and clothed in protecting steel. He -was great now; sublimely great. The rude statues of his ancestors -in his palace should have an addition--I would see to that; and it -would not be a mailed king killing a giant or a dragon, like the -rest, it would be a king in commoner's garb bearing death in his -arms that a peasant mother might look her last upon her child and -be comforted. - -He laid the girl down by her mother, who poured out endearments -and caresses from an overflowing heart, and one could detect a -flickering faint light of response in the child's eyes, but that -was all. The mother hung over her, kissing her, petting her, and -imploring her to speak, but the lips only moved and no sound came. -I snatched my liquor flask from my knapsack, but the woman forbade -me, and said: - -"No--she does not suffer; it is better so. It might bring her back -to life. None that be so good and kind as ye are would do her -that cruel hurt. For look you--what is left to live for? Her -brothers are gone, her father is gone, her mother goeth, the -Church's curse is upon her, and none may shelter or befriend her -even though she lay perishing in the road. She is desolate. I have -not asked you, good heart, if her sister be still on live, here -overhead; I had no need; ye had gone back, else, and not left -the poor thing forsaken--" - -"She lieth at peace," interrupted the king, in a subdued voice. - -"I would not change it. How rich is this day in happiness! Ah, -my Annis, thou shalt join thy sister soon--thou'rt on thy way, -and these be merciful friends that will not hinder." - -And so she fell to murmuring and cooing over the girl again, and -softly stroking her face and hair, and kissing her and calling her -by endearing names; but there was scarcely sign of response now -in the glazing eyes. I saw tears well from the king's eyes, and -trickle down his face. The woman noticed them, too, and said: - -"Ah, I know that sign: thou'st a wife at home, poor soul, and -you and she have gone hungry to bed, many's the time, that the -little ones might have your crust; you know what poverty is, and -the daily insults of your betters, and the heavy hand of the Church -and the king." - -The king winced under this accidental home-shot, but kept still; -he was learning his part; and he was playing it well, too, for -a pretty dull beginner. I struck up a diversion. I offered the -woman food and liquor, but she refused both. She would allow -nothing to come between her and the release of death. Then I slipped -away and brought the dead child from aloft, and laid it by her. -This broke her down again, and there was another scene that was -full of heartbreak. By and by I made another diversion, and beguiled -her to sketch her story. - -"Ye know it well yourselves, having suffered it--for truly none -of our condition in Britain escape it. It is the old, weary tale. -We fought and struggled and succeeded; meaning by success, that -we lived and did not die; more than that is not to be claimed. No -troubles came that we could not outlive, till this year brought -them; then came they all at once, as one might say, and overwhelmed -us. Years ago the lord of the manor planted certain fruit trees on -our farm; in the best part of it, too--a grievous wrong and shame--" - -"But it was his right," interrupted the king. - -"None denieth that, indeed; an the law mean anything, what is -the lord's is his, and what is mine is his also. Our farm was -ours by lease, therefore 'twas likewise his, to do with it as he -would. Some little time ago, three of those trees were found hewn -down. Our three grown sons ran frightened to report the crime. -Well, in his lordship's dungeon there they lie, who saith there -shall they lie and rot till they confess. They have naught to -confess, being innocent, wherefore there will they remain until -they die. Ye know that right well, I ween. Think how this left us; -a man, a woman and two children, to gather a crop that was planted -by so much greater force, yes, and protect it night and day from -pigeons and prowling animals that be sacred and must not be hurt -by any of our sort. When my lord's crop was nearly ready for -the harvest, so also was ours; when his bell rang to call us to -his fields to harvest his crop for nothing, he would not allow that -I and my two girls should count for our three captive sons, but -for only two of them; so, for the lacking one were we daily fined. -All this time our own crop was perishing through neglect; and so -both the priest and his lordship fined us because their shares -of it were suffering through damage. In the end the fines ate up -our crop--and they took it all; they took it all and made us harvest -it for them, without pay or food, and we starving. Then the worst -came when I, being out of my mind with hunger and loss of my boys, -and grief to see my husband and my little maids in rags and misery -and despair, uttered a deep blasphemy--oh! a thousand of them! ---against the Church and the Church's ways. It was ten days ago. -I had fallen sick with this disease, and it was to the priest -I said the words, for he was come to chide me for lack of due -humility under the chastening hand of God. He carried my trespass -to his betters; I was stubborn; wherefore, presently upon my head -and upon all heads that were dear to me, fell the curse of Rome. - -"Since that day we are avoided, shunned with horror. None has -come near this hut to know whether we live or not. The rest of us -were taken down. Then I roused me and got up, as wife and mother -will. It was little they could have eaten in any case; it was -less than little they had to eat. But there was water, and I gave -them that. How they craved it! and how they blessed it! But the -end came yesterday; my strength broke down. Yesterday was the -last time I ever saw my husband and this youngest child alive. -I have lain here all these hours--these ages, ye may say--listening, -listening for any sound up there that--" - -She gave a sharp quick glance at her eldest daughter, then cried -out, "Oh, my darling!" and feebly gathered the stiffening form -to her sheltering arms. She had recognized the death-rattle. - - - -CHAPTER XXX - -THE TRAGEDY OF THE MANOR-HOUSE - -At midnight all was over, and we sat in the presence of four -corpses. We covered them with such rags as we could find, and -started away, fastening the door behind us. Their home must be -these people's grave, for they could not have Christian burial, -or be admitted to consecrated ground. They were as dogs, wild -beasts, lepers, and no soul that valued its hope of eternal life -would throw it away by meddling in any sort with these rebuked and -smitten outcasts. - -We had not moved four steps when I caught a sound as of footsteps -upon gravel. My heart flew to my throat. We must not be seen -coming from that house. I plucked at the king's robe and we drew -back and took shelter behind the corner of the cabin. - -"Now we are safe," I said, "but it was a close call--so to speak. -If the night had been lighter he might have seen us, no doubt, -he seemed to be so near." - -"Mayhap it is but a beast and not a man at all." - -"True. But man or beast, it will be wise to stay here a minute -and let it get by and out of the way." - -"Hark! It cometh hither." - -True again. The step was coming toward us--straight toward the hut. -It must be a beast, then, and we might as well have saved our -trepidation. I was going to step out, but the king laid his hand -upon my arm. There was a moment of silence, then we heard a soft -knock on the cabin door. It made me shiver. Presently the knock -was repeated, and then we heard these words in a guarded voice: - -"Mother! Father! Open--we have got free, and we bring news to -pale your cheeks but glad your hearts; and we may not tarry, but -must fly! And--but they answer not. Mother! father!--" - -I drew the king toward the other end of the hut and whispered: - -"Come--now we can get to the road." - -The king hesitated, was going to demur; but just then we heard -the door give way, and knew that those desolate men were in the -presence of their dead. - -"Come, my liege! in a moment they will strike a light, and then -will follow that which it would break your heart to hear." - -He did not hesitate this time. The moment we were in the road -I ran; and after a moment he threw dignity aside and followed. -I did not want to think of what was happening in the hut--I couldn't -bear it; I wanted to drive it out of my mind; so I struck into the -first subject that lay under that one in my mind: - -"I have had the disease those people died of, and so have nothing -to fear; but if you have not had it also--" - -He broke in upon me to say he was in trouble, and it was his -conscience that was troubling him: - -"These young men have got free, they say--but _how_? It is not -likely that their lord hath set them free." - -"Oh, no, I make no doubt they escaped." - -"That is my trouble; I have a fear that this is so, and your -suspicion doth confirm it, you having the same fear." - -"I should not call it by that name though. I do suspect that they -escaped, but if they did, I am not sorry, certainly." - -"I am not sorry, I _think_--but--" - -"What is it? What is there for one to be troubled about?" - -"_If_ they did escape, then are we bound in duty to lay hands upon -them and deliver them again to their lord; for it is not seemly -that one of his quality should suffer a so insolent and high-handed -outrage from persons of their base degree." - -There it was again. He could see only one side of it. He was -born so, educated so, his veins were full of ancestral blood that -was rotten with this sort of unconscious brutality, brought down -by inheritance from a long procession of hearts that had each done -its share toward poisoning the stream. To imprison these men -without proof, and starve their kindred, was no harm, for they were -merely peasants and subject to the will and pleasure of their lord, -no matter what fearful form it might take; but for these men to -break out of unjust captivity was insult and outrage, and a thing -not to be countenanced by any conscientious person who knew his -duty to his sacred caste. - -I worked more than half an hour before I got him to change the -subject--and even then an outside matter did it for me. This was -a something which caught our eyes as we struck the summit of a -small hill--a red glow, a good way off. - -"That's a fire," said I. - -Fires interested me considerably, because I was getting a good -deal of an insurance business started, and was also training some -horses and building some steam fire-engines, with an eye to a paid -fire department by and by. The priests opposed both my fire and -life insurance, on the ground that it was an insolent attempt to -hinder the decrees of God; and if you pointed out that they did not -hinder the decrees in the least, but only modified the hard -consequences of them if you took out policies and had luck, they -retorted that that was gambling against the decrees of God, and was -just as bad. So they managed to damage those industries more -or less, but I got even on my Accident business. As a rule, a knight -is a lummox, and some times even a labrick, and hence open to pretty -poor arguments when they come glibly from a superstition-monger, -but even _he_ could see the practical side of a thing once in a while; -and so of late you couldn't clean up a tournament and pile the -result without finding one of my accident-tickets in every helmet. - -We stood there awhile, in the thick darkness and stillness, looking -toward the red blur in the distance, and trying to make out the -meaning of a far-away murmur that rose and fell fitfully on the -night. Sometimes it swelled up and for a moment seemed less -remote; but when we were hopefully expecting it to betray its cause -and nature, it dulled and sank again, carrying its mystery with it. -We started down the hill in its direction, and the winding road -plunged us at once into almost solid darkness--darkness that was -packed and crammed in between two tall forest walls. We groped -along down for half a mile, perhaps, that murmur growing more and -more distinct all the time. The coming storm threatening more and -more, with now and then a little shiver of wind, a faint show of -lightning, and dull grumblings of distant thunder. I was in the -lead. I ran against something--a soft heavy something which gave, -slightly, to the impulse of my weight; at the same moment the -lightning glared out, and within a foot of my face was the writhing -face of a man who was hanging from the limb of a tree! That is, -it seemed to be writhing, but it was not. It was a grewsome sight. -Straightway there was an ear-splitting explosion of thunder, and -the bottom of heaven fell out; the rain poured down in a deluge. -No matter, we must try to cut this man down, on the chance that -there might be life in him yet, mustn't we? The lightning came -quick and sharp now, and the place was alternately noonday and -midnight. One moment the man would be hanging before me in an -intense light, and the next he was blotted out again in the darkness. -I told the king we must cut him down. The king at once objected. - -"If he hanged himself, he was willing to lose him property to -his lord; so let him be. If others hanged him, belike they had -the right--let him hang." - -"But--" - -"But me no buts, but even leave him as he is. And for yet another -reason. When the lightning cometh again--there, look abroad." - -Two others hanging, within fifty yards of us! - -"It is not weather meet for doing useless courtesies unto dead folk. -They are past thanking you. Come--it is unprofitable to tarry here." - -There was reason in what he said, so we moved on. Within the next -mile we counted six more hanging forms by the blaze of the lightning, -and altogether it was a grisly excursion. That murmur was a murmur -no longer, it was a roar; a roar of men's voices. A man came flying -by now, dimly through the darkness, and other men chasing him. -They disappeared. Presently another case of the kind occurred, -and then another and another. Then a sudden turn of the road -brought us in sight of that fire--it was a large manor-house, and -little or nothing was left of it--and everywhere men were flying -and other men raging after them in pursuit. - -I warned the king that this was not a safe place for strangers. -We would better get away from the light, until matters should -improve. We stepped back a little, and hid in the edge of the -wood. From this hiding-place we saw both men and women hunted -by the mob. The fearful work went on until nearly dawn. Then, -the fire being out and the storm spent, the voices and flying -footsteps presently ceased, and darkness and stillness reigned again. - -We ventured out, and hurried cautiously away; and although we were -worn out and sleepy, we kept on until we had put this place some -miles behind us. Then we asked hospitality at the hut of a charcoal -burner, and got what was to be had. A woman was up and about, but -the man was still asleep, on a straw shake-down, on the clay floor. -The woman seemed uneasy until I explained that we were travelers -and had lost our way and been wandering in the woods all night. -She became talkative, then, and asked if we had heard of the -terrible goings-on at the manor-house of Abblasoure. Yes, we had -heard of them, but what we wanted now was rest and sleep. The -king broke in: - -"Sell us the house and take yourselves away, for we be perilous -company, being late come from people that died of the Spotted Death." - -It was good of him, but unnecessary. One of the commonest decorations -of the nation was the waffle-iron face. I had early noticed that -the woman and her husband were both so decorated. She made us -entirely welcome, and had no fears; and plainly she was immensely -impressed by the king's proposition; for, of course, it was a good -deal of an event in her life to run across a person of the king's -humble appearance who was ready to buy a man's house for the sake -of a night's lodging. It gave her a large respect for us, and she -strained the lean possibilities of her hovel to the utmost to make -us comfortable. - -We slept till far into the afternoon, and then got up hungry enough to -make cotter fare quite palatable to the king, the more particularly -as it was scant in quantity. And also in variety; it consisted -solely of onions, salt, and the national black bread made out of -horse-feed. The woman told us about the affair of the evening -before. At ten or eleven at night, when everybody was in bed, -the manor-house burst into flames. The country-side swarmed to -the rescue, and the family were saved, with one exception, the -master. He did not appear. Everybody was frantic over this loss, -and two brave yeomen sacrificed their lives in ransacking the -burning house seeking that valuable personage. But after a while -he was found--what was left of him--which was his corpse. It was -in a copse three hundred yards away, bound, gagged, stabbed in a -dozen places. - -Who had done this? Suspicion fell upon a humble family in the -neighborhood who had been lately treated with peculiar harshness -by the baron; and from these people the suspicion easily extended -itself to their relatives and familiars. A suspicion was enough; -my lord's liveried retainers proclaimed an instant crusade against -these people, and were promptly joined by the community in general. -The woman's husband had been active with the mob, and had not -returned home until nearly dawn. He was gone now to find out -what the general result had been. While we were still talking he -came back from his quest. His report was revolting enough. Eighteen -persons hanged or butchered, and two yeomen and thirteen prisoners -lost in the fire. - -"And how many prisoners were there altogether in the vaults?" - -"Thirteen." - -"Then every one of them was lost?" - -"Yes, all." - -"But the people arrived in time to save the family; how is it they -could save none of the prisoners?" - -The man looked puzzled, and said: - -"Would one unlock the vaults at such a time? Marry, some would -have escaped." - -"Then you mean that nobody _did_ unlock them?" - -"None went near them, either to lock or unlock. It standeth to -reason that the bolts were fast; wherefore it was only needful -to establish a watch, so that if any broke the bonds he might not -escape, but be taken. None were taken." - -"Natheless, three did escape," said the king, "and ye will do well -to publish it and set justice upon their track, for these murthered -the baron and fired the house." - -I was just expecting he would come out with that. For a moment -the man and his wife showed an eager interest in this news and -an impatience to go out and spread it; then a sudden something -else betrayed itself in their faces, and they began to ask questions. -I answered the questions myself, and narrowly watched the effects -produced. I was soon satisfied that the knowledge of who these -three prisoners were had somehow changed the atmosphere; that -our hosts' continued eagerness to go and spread the news was now -only pretended and not real. The king did not notice the change, -and I was glad of that. I worked the conversation around toward -other details of the night's proceedings, and noted that these -people were relieved to have it take that direction. - -The painful thing observable about all this business was the -alacrity with which this oppressed community had turned their -cruel hands against their own class in the interest of the common -oppressor. This man and woman seemed to feel that in a quarrel -between a person of their own class and his lord, it was the natural -and proper and rightful thing for that poor devil's whole caste -to side with the master and fight his battle for him, without ever -stopping to inquire into the rights or wrongs of the matter. This -man had been out helping to hang his neighbors, and had done his -work with zeal, and yet was aware that there was nothing against -them but a mere suspicion, with nothing back of it describable -as evidence, still neither he nor his wife seemed to see anything -horrible about it. - -This was depressing--to a man with the dream of a republic in his -head. It reminded me of a time thirteen centuries away, when -the "poor whites" of our South who were always despised and -frequently insulted by the slave-lords around them, and who owed -their base condition simply to the presence of slavery in their -midst, were yet pusillanimously ready to side with the slave-lords -in all political moves for the upholding and perpetuating of -slavery, and did also finally shoulder their muskets and pour out -their lives in an effort to prevent the destruction of that very -institution which degraded them. And there was only one redeeming -feature connected with that pitiful piece of history; and that was, -that secretly the "poor white" did detest the slave-lord, and did -feel his own shame. That feeling was not brought to the surface, -but the fact that it was there and could have been brought out, -under favoring circumstances, was something--in fact, it was enough; -for it showed that a man is at bottom a man, after all, even if it -doesn't show on the outside. - -Well, as it turned out, this charcoal burner was just the twin of -the Southern "poor white" of the far future. The king presently -showed impatience, and said: - -"An ye prattle here all the day, justice will miscarry. Think ye -the criminals will abide in their father's house? They are fleeing, -they are not waiting. You should look to it that a party of horse -be set upon their track." - -The woman paled slightly, but quite perceptibly, and the man looked -flustered and irresolute. I said: - -"Come, friend, I will walk a little way with you, and explain which -direction I think they would try to take. If they were merely -resisters of the gabelle or some kindred absurdity I would try -to protect them from capture; but when men murder a person of -high degree and likewise burn his house, that is another matter." - -The last remark was for the king--to quiet him. On the road -the man pulled his resolution together, and began the march with -a steady gait, but there was no eagerness in it. By and by I said: - -"What relation were these men to you--cousins?" - -He turned as white as his layer of charcoal would let him, and -stopped, trembling. - -"Ah, my God, how know ye that?" - -"I didn't know it; it was a chance guess." - -"Poor lads, they are lost. And good lads they were, too." - -"Were you actually going yonder to tell on them?" - -He didn't quite know how to take that; but he said, hesitatingly: - -"Ye-s." - -"Then I think you are a damned scoundrel!" - -It made him as glad as if I had called him an angel. - -"Say the good words again, brother! for surely ye mean that ye -would not betray me an I failed of my duty." - -"Duty? There is no duty in the matter, except the duty to keep -still and let those men get away. They've done a righteous deed." - -He looked pleased; pleased, and touched with apprehension at the -same time. He looked up and down the road to see that no one -was coming, and then said in a cautious voice: - -"From what land come you, brother, that you speak such perilous -words, and seem not to be afraid?" - -"They are not perilous words when spoken to one of my own caste, -I take it. You would not tell anybody I said them?" - -"I? I would be drawn asunder by wild horses first." - -"Well, then, let me say my say. I have no fears of your repeating -it. I think devil's work has been done last night upon those -innocent poor people. That old baron got only what he deserved. -If I had my way, all his kind should have the same luck." - -Fear and depression vanished from the man's manner, and gratefulness -and a brave animation took their place: - -"Even though you be a spy, and your words a trap for my undoing, -yet are they such refreshment that to hear them again and others -like to them, I would go to the gallows happy, as having had one -good feast at least in a starved life. And I will say my say now, -and ye may report it if ye be so minded. I helped to hang my -neighbors for that it were peril to my own life to show lack of -zeal in the master's cause; the others helped for none other reason. -All rejoice to-day that he is dead, but all do go about seemingly -sorrowing, and shedding the hypocrite's tear, for in that lies -safety. I have said the words, I have said the words! the only -ones that have ever tasted good in my mouth, and the reward of -that taste is sufficient. Lead on, an ye will, be it even to the -scaffold, for I am ready." - -There it was, you see. A man is a man, at bottom. Whole ages -of abuse and oppression cannot crush the manhood clear out of him. -Whoever thinks it a mistake is himself mistaken. Yes, there is -plenty good enough material for a republic in the most degraded -people that ever existed--even the Russians; plenty of manhood -in them--even in the Germans--if one could but force it out of -its timid and suspicious privacy, to overthrow and trample in the -mud any throne that ever was set up and any nobility that ever -supported it. We should see certain things yet, let us hope and -believe. First, a modified monarchy, till Arthur's days were done, -then the destruction of the throne, nobility abolished, every -member of it bound out to some useful trade, universal suffrage -instituted, and the whole government placed in the hands of the -men and women of the nation there to remain. Yes, there was no -occasion to give up my dream yet a while. - - - -CHAPTER XXXI - -MARCO - -We strolled along in a sufficiently indolent fashion now, and -talked. We must dispose of about the amount of time it ought -to take to go to the little hamlet of Abblasoure and put justice -on the track of those murderers and get back home again. And -meantime I had an auxiliary interest which had never paled yet, -never lost its novelty for me since I had been in Arthur's kingdom: -the behavior--born of nice and exact subdivisions of caste--of chance -passers-by toward each other. Toward the shaven monk who trudged -along with his cowl tilted back and the sweat washing down his -fat jowls, the coal-burner was deeply reverent; to the gentleman -he was abject; with the small farmer and the free mechanic he was -cordial and gossipy; and when a slave passed by with a countenance -respectfully lowered, this chap's nose was in the air--he couldn't -even see him. Well, there are times when one would like to hang -the whole human race and finish the farce. - -Presently we struck an incident. A small mob of half-naked boys -and girls came tearing out of the woods, scared and shrieking. -The eldest among them were not more than twelve or fourteen years -old. They implored help, but they were so beside themselves that -we couldn't make out what the matter was. However, we plunged -into the wood, they skurrying in the lead, and the trouble was -quickly revealed: they had hanged a little fellow with a bark rope, -and he was kicking and struggling, in the process of choking to -death. We rescued him, and fetched him around. It was some more -human nature; the admiring little folk imitating their elders; -they were playing mob, and had achieved a success which promised -to be a good deal more serious than they had bargained for. - -It was not a dull excursion for me. I managed to put in the time -very well. I made various acquaintanceships, and in my quality -of stranger was able to ask as many questions as I wanted to. -A thing which naturally interested me, as a statesman, was the -matter of wages. I picked up what I could under that head during -the afternoon. A man who hasn't had much experience, and doesn't -think, is apt to measure a nation's prosperity or lack of prosperity -by the mere size of the prevailing wages; if the wages be high, the -nation is prosperous; if low, it isn't. Which is an error. It -isn't what sum you get, it's how much you can buy with it, that's -the important thing; and it's that that tells whether your wages -are high in fact or only high in name. I could remember how it -was in the time of our great civil war in the nineteenth century. -In the North a carpenter got three dollars a day, gold valuation; -in the South he got fifty--payable in Confederate shinplasters -worth a dollar a bushel. In the North a suit of overalls cost -three dollars--a day's wages; in the South it cost seventy-five ---which was two days' wages. Other things were in proportion. -Consequently, wages were twice as high in the North as they were -in the South, because the one wage had that much more purchasing -power than the other had. - -Yes, I made various acquaintances in the hamlet and a thing that -gratified me a good deal was to find our new coins in circulation ---lots of milrays, lots of mills, lots of cents, a good many nickels, -and some silver; all this among the artisans and commonalty -generally; yes, and even some gold--but that was at the bank, -that is to say, the goldsmith's. I dropped in there while Marco, -the son of Marco, was haggling with a shopkeeper over a quarter -of a pound of salt, and asked for change for a twenty-dollar gold -piece. They furnished it--that is, after they had chewed the piece, -and rung it on the counter, and tried acid on it, and asked me -where I got it, and who I was, and where I was from, and where -I was going to, and when I expected to get there, and perhaps -a couple of hundred more questions; and when they got aground, -I went right on and furnished them a lot of information voluntarily; -told them I owned a dog, and his name was Watch, and my first wife -was a Free Will Baptist, and her grandfather was a Prohibitionist, -and I used to know a man who had two thumbs on each hand and a wart -on the inside of his upper lip, and died in the hope of a glorious -resurrection, and so on, and so on, and so on, till even that -hungry village questioner began to look satisfied, and also a shade -put out; but he had to respect a man of my financial strength, -and so he didn't give me any lip, but I noticed he took it out of -his underlings, which was a perfectly natural thing to do. Yes, -they changed my twenty, but I judged it strained the bank a little, -which was a thing to be expected, for it was the same as walking -into a paltry village store in the nineteenth century and requiring -the boss of it to change a two thousand-dollar bill for you all -of a sudden. He could do it, maybe; but at the same time he -would wonder how a small farmer happened to be carrying so much -money around in his pocket; which was probably this goldsmith's -thought, too; for he followed me to the door and stood there gazing -after me with reverent admiration. - -Our new money was not only handsomely circulating, but its language -was already glibly in use; that is to say, people had dropped -the names of the former moneys, and spoke of things as being worth -so many dollars or cents or mills or milrays now. It was very -gratifying. We were progressing, that was sure. - -I got to know several master mechanics, but about the most interesting -fellow among them was the blacksmith, Dowley. He was a live man -and a brisk talker, and had two journeymen and three apprentices, -and was doing a raging business. In fact, he was getting rich, -hand over fist, and was vastly respected. Marco was very proud of -having such a man for a friend. He had taken me there ostensibly -to let me see the big establishment which bought so much of his -charcoal, but really to let me see what easy and almost familiar -terms he was on with this great man. Dowley and I fraternized -at once; I had had just such picked men, splendid fellows, under -me in the Colt Arms Factory. I was bound to see more of him, so -I invited him to come out to Marco's Sunday, and dine with us. -Marco was appalled, and held his breath; and when the grandee -accepted, he was so grateful that he almost forgot to be astonished -at the condescension. - -Marco's joy was exuberant--but only for a moment; then he grew -thoughtful, then sad; and when he heard me tell Dowley I should -have Dickon, the boss mason, and Smug, the boss wheelwright, out -there, too, the coal-dust on his face turned to chalk, and he lost -his grip. But I knew what was the matter with him; it was the -expense. He saw ruin before him; he judged that his financial -days were numbered. However, on our way to invite the others, -I said: - -"You must allow me to have these friends come; and you must also -allow me to pay the costs." - -His face cleared, and he said with spirit: - -"But not all of it, not all of it. Ye cannot well bear a burden -like to this alone." - -I stopped him, and said: - -"Now let's understand each other on the spot, old friend. I am -only a farm bailiff, it is true; but I am not poor, nevertheless. -I have been very fortunate this year--you would be astonished -to know how I have thriven. I tell you the honest truth when I say -I could squander away as many as a dozen feasts like this and never -care _that_ for the expense!" and I snapped my fingers. I could -see myself rise a foot at a time in Marco's estimation, and when -I fetched out those last words I was become a very tower for style -and altitude. "So you see, you must let me have my way. You -can't contribute a cent to this orgy, that's _settled_." - -"It's grand and good of you--" - -"No, it isn't. You've opened your house to Jones and me in the -most generous way; Jones was remarking upon it to-day, just before -you came back from the village; for although he wouldn't be likely -to say such a thing to you--because Jones isn't a talker, and is -diffident in society--he has a good heart and a grateful, and -knows how to appreciate it when he is well treated; yes, you and -your wife have been very hospitable toward us--" - -"Ah, brother, 'tis nothing--_such_ hospitality!" - -"But it _is_ something; the best a man has, freely given, is always -something, and is as good as a prince can do, and ranks right -along beside it--for even a prince can but do his best. And so -we'll shop around and get up this layout now, and don't you worry -about the expense. I'm one of the worst spendthrifts that ever -was born. Why, do you know, sometimes in a single week I spend ---but never mind about that--you'd never believe it anyway." - -And so we went gadding along, dropping in here and there, pricing -things, and gossiping with the shopkeepers about the riot, and now -and then running across pathetic reminders of it, in the persons of -shunned and tearful and houseless remnants of families whose homes -had been taken from them and their parents butchered or hanged. -The raiment of Marco and his wife was of coarse tow-linen and -linsey-woolsey respectively, and resembled township maps, it being -made up pretty exclusively of patches which had been added, township -by township, in the course of five or six years, until hardly a -hand's-breadth of the original garments was surviving and present. -Now I wanted to fit these people out with new suits, on account of -that swell company, and I didn't know just how to get at it ---with delicacy, until at last it struck me that as I had already -been liberal in inventing wordy gratitude for the king, it would -be just the thing to back it up with evidence of a substantial -sort; so I said: - -"And Marco, there's another thing which you must permit--out of -kindness for Jones--because you wouldn't want to offend him. -He was very anxious to testify his appreciation in some way, but -he is so diffident he couldn't venture it himself, and so he begged -me to buy some little things and give them to you and Dame Phyllis -and let him pay for them without your ever knowing they came from -him--you know how a delicate person feels about that sort of thing ---and so I said I would, and we would keep mum. Well, his idea -was, a new outfit of clothes for you both--" - -"Oh, it is wastefulness! It may not be, brother, it may not be. -Consider the vastness of the sum--" - -"Hang the vastness of the sum! Try to keep quiet for a moment, -and see how it would seem; a body can't get in a word edgeways, -you talk so much. You ought to cure that, Marco; it isn't good -form, you know, and it will grow on you if you don't check it. -Yes, we'll step in here now and price this man's stuff--and don't -forget to remember to not let on to Jones that you know he had -anything to do with it. You can't think how curiously sensitive -and proud he is. He's a farmer--pretty fairly well-to-do farmer ---and I'm his bailiff; _but_--the imagination of that man! Why, -sometimes when he forgets himself and gets to blowing off, you'd -think he was one of the swells of the earth; and you might listen -to him a hundred years and never take him for a farmer--especially if -he talked agriculture. He _thinks_ he's a Sheol of a farmer; thinks -he's old Grayback from Wayback; but between you and me privately -he don't know as much about farming as he does about running -a kingdom--still, whatever he talks about, you want to drop your -underjaw and listen, the same as if you had never heard such -incredible wisdom in all your life before, and were afraid you -might die before you got enough of it. That will please Jones." - -It tickled Marco to the marrow to hear about such an odd character; -but it also prepared him for accidents; and in my experience when -you travel with a king who is letting on to be something else and -can't remember it more than about half the time, you can't take -too many precautions. - -This was the best store we had come across yet; it had everything -in it, in small quantities, from anvils and drygoods all the way -down to fish and pinchbeck jewelry. I concluded I would bunch -my whole invoice right here, and not go pricing around any more. -So I got rid of Marco, by sending him off to invite the mason and -the wheelwright, which left the field free to me. For I never care -to do a thing in a quiet way; it's got to be theatrical or I don't -take any interest in it. I showed up money enough, in a careless -way, to corral the shopkeeper's respect, and then I wrote down -a list of the things I wanted, and handed it to him to see if he -could read it. He could, and was proud to show that he could. -He said he had been educated by a priest, and could both read -and write. He ran it through, and remarked with satisfaction that -it was a pretty heavy bill. Well, and so it was, for a little -concern like that. I was not only providing a swell dinner, but -some odds and ends of extras. I ordered that the things be carted -out and delivered at the dwelling of Marco, the son of Marco, -by Saturday evening, and send me the bill at dinner-time Sunday. -He said I could depend upon his promptness and exactitude, it was -the rule of the house. He also observed that he would throw in -a couple of miller-guns for the Marcos gratis--that everybody -was using them now. He had a mighty opinion of that clever -device. I said: - -"And please fill them up to the middle mark, too; and add that -to the bill." - -He would, with pleasure. He filled them, and I took them with -me. I couldn't venture to tell him that the miller-gun was a -little invention of my own, and that I had officially ordered that -every shopkeeper in the kingdom keep them on hand and sell them -at government price--which was the merest trifle, and the shopkeeper -got that, not the government. We furnished them for nothing. - -The king had hardly missed us when we got back at nightfall. He -had early dropped again into his dream of a grand invasion of Gaul -with the whole strength of his kingdom at his back, and the afternoon -had slipped away without his ever coming to himself again. - - - -CHAPTER XXXII - -DOWLEY'S HUMILIATION - -Well, when that cargo arrived toward sunset, Saturday afternoon, -I had my hands full to keep the Marcos from fainting. They were -sure Jones and I were ruined past help, and they blamed themselves -as accessories to this bankruptcy. You see, in addition to the -dinner-materials, which called for a sufficiently round sum, -I had bought a lot of extras for the future comfort of the family: -for instance, a big lot of wheat, a delicacy as rare to the tables -of their class as was ice-cream to a hermit's; also a sizeable -deal dinner-table; also two entire pounds of salt, which was -another piece of extravagance in those people's eyes; also crockery, -stools, the clothes, a small cask of beer, and so on. I instructed -the Marcos to keep quiet about this sumptuousness, so as to give -me a chance to surprise the guests and show off a little. Concerning -the new clothes, the simple couple were like children; they were up -and down, all night, to see if it wasn't nearly daylight, so that -they could put them on, and they were into them at last as much -as an hour before dawn was due. Then their pleasure--not to say -delirium--was so fresh and novel and inspiring that the sight of it -paid me well for the interruptions which my sleep had suffered. -The king had slept just as usual--like the dead. The Marcos could -not thank him for their clothes, that being forbidden; but they -tried every way they could think of to make him see how grateful -they were. Which all went for nothing: he didn't notice any change. - -It turned out to be one of those rich and rare fall days which is -just a June day toned down to a degree where it is heaven to be -out of doors. Toward noon the guests arrived, and we assembled -under a great tree and were soon as sociable as old acquaintances. -Even the king's reserve melted a little, though it was some little -trouble to him to adjust himself to the name of Jones along at -first. I had asked him to try to not forget that he was a farmer; -but I had also considered it prudent to ask him to let the thing -stand at that, and not elaborate it any. Because he was just the -kind of person you could depend on to spoil a little thing like -that if you didn't warn him, his tongue was so handy, and his -spirit so willing, and his information so uncertain. - -Dowley was in fine feather, and I early got him started, and then -adroitly worked him around onto his own history for a text and -himself for a hero, and then it was good to sit there and hear him -hum. Self-made man, you know. They know how to talk. They do -deserve more credit than any other breed of men, yes, that is true; -and they are among the very first to find it out, too. He told how -he had begun life an orphan lad without money and without friends -able to help him; how he had lived as the slaves of the meanest -master lived; how his day's work was from sixteen to eighteen hours -long, and yielded him only enough black bread to keep him in a -half-fed condition; how his faithful endeavors finally attracted -the attention of a good blacksmith, who came near knocking him -dead with kindness by suddenly offering, when he was totally -unprepared, to take him as his bound apprentice for nine years -and give him board and clothes and teach him the trade--or "mystery" -as Dowley called it. That was his first great rise, his first -gorgeous stroke of fortune; and you saw that he couldn't yet speak -of it without a sort of eloquent wonder and delight that such a -gilded promotion should have fallen to the lot of a common human -being. He got no new clothing during his apprenticeship, but on -his graduation day his master tricked him out in spang-new tow-linens -and made him feel unspeakably rich and fine. - -"I remember me of that day!" the wheelwright sang out, with -enthusiasm. - -"And I likewise!" cried the mason. "I would not believe they -were thine own; in faith I could not." - -"Nor other!" shouted Dowley, with sparkling eyes. "I was like -to lose my character, the neighbors wending I had mayhap been -stealing. It was a great day, a great day; one forgetteth not -days like that." - -Yes, and his master was a fine man, and prosperous, and always -had a great feast of meat twice in the year, and with it white -bread, true wheaten bread; in fact, lived like a lord, so to speak. -And in time Dowley succeeded to the business and married the daughter. - -"And now consider what is come to pass," said he, impressively. -"Two times in every month there is fresh meat upon my table." -He made a pause here, to let that fact sink home, then added ---"and eight times salt meat." - -"It is even true," said the wheelwright, with bated breath. - -"I know it of mine own knowledge," said the mason, in the same -reverent fashion. - -"On my table appeareth white bread every Sunday in the year," -added the master smith, with solemnity. "I leave it to your own -consciences, friends, if this is not also true?" - -"By my head, yes," cried the mason. - -"I can testify it--and I do," said the wheelwright. - -"And as to furniture, ye shall say yourselves what mine equipment -is." He waved his hand in fine gesture of granting frank and -unhampered freedom of speech, and added: "Speak as ye are moved; -speak as ye would speak; an I were not here." - -"Ye have five stools, and of the sweetest workmanship at that, albeit -your family is but three," said the wheelwright, with deep respect. - -"And six wooden goblets, and six platters of wood and two of pewter -to eat and drink from withal," said the mason, impressively. "And -I say it as knowing God is my judge, and we tarry not here alway, -but must answer at the last day for the things said in the body, -be they false or be they sooth." - -"Now ye know what manner of man I am, brother Jones," said the -smith, with a fine and friendly condescension, "and doubtless ye -would look to find me a man jealous of his due of respect and -but sparing of outgo to strangers till their rating and quality be -assured, but trouble yourself not, as concerning that; wit ye well -ye shall find me a man that regardeth not these matters but is -willing to receive any he as his fellow and equal that carrieth -a right heart in his body, be his worldly estate howsoever modest. -And in token of it, here is my hand; and I say with my own mouth -we are equals--equals"--and he smiled around on the company with -the satisfaction of a god who is doing the handsome and gracious -thing and is quite well aware of it. - -The king took the hand with a poorly disguised reluctance, and -let go of it as willingly as a lady lets go of a fish; all of which -had a good effect, for it was mistaken for an embarrassment natural -to one who was being called upon by greatness. - -The dame brought out the table now, and set it under the tree. -It caused a visible stir of surprise, it being brand new and a -sumptuous article of deal. But the surprise rose higher still -when the dame, with a body oozing easy indifference at every pore, -but eyes that gave it all away by absolutely flaming with vanity, -slowly unfolded an actual simon-pure tablecloth and spread it. -That was a notch above even the blacksmith's domestic grandeurs, -and it hit him hard; you could see it. But Marco was in Paradise; -you could see that, too. Then the dame brought two fine new -stools--whew! that was a sensation; it was visible in the eyes of -every guest. Then she brought two more--as calmly as she could. -Sensation again--with awed murmurs. Again she brought two ---walking on air, she was so proud. The guests were petrified, and -the mason muttered: - -"There is that about earthly pomps which doth ever move to reverence." - -As the dame turned away, Marco couldn't help slapping on the climax -while the thing was hot; so he said with what was meant for a -languid composure but was a poor imitation of it: - -"These suffice; leave the rest." - -So there were more yet! It was a fine effect. I couldn't have -played the hand better myself. - -From this out, the madam piled up the surprises with a rush that -fired the general astonishment up to a hundred and fifty in the -shade, and at the same time paralyzed expression of it down to -gasped "Oh's" and "Ah's," and mute upliftings of hands and eyes. -She fetched crockery--new, and plenty of it; new wooden goblets -and other table furniture; and beer, fish, chicken, a goose, eggs, -roast beef, roast mutton, a ham, a small roast pig, and a wealth -of genuine white wheaten bread. Take it by and large, that spread -laid everything far and away in the shade that ever that crowd had -seen before. And while they sat there just simply stupefied with -wonder and awe, I sort of waved my hand as if by accident, and -the storekeeper's son emerged from space and said he had come -to collect. - -"That's all right," I said, indifferently. "What is the amount? -give us the items." - -Then he read off this bill, while those three amazed men listened, -and serene waves of satisfaction rolled over my soul and alternate -waves of terror and admiration surged over Marco's: - - 2 pounds salt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 - 8 dozen pints beer, in the wood . . . . . 800 - 3 bushels wheat . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,700 - 2 pounds fish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 - 3 hens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400 - 1 goose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400 - 3 dozen eggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 - 1 roast of beef . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450 - 1 roast of mutton . . . . . . . . . . . . 400 - 1 ham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800 - 1 sucking pig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 - 2 crockery dinner sets . . . . . . . . . 6,000 - 2 men's suits and underwear . . . . . . . 2,800 - 1 stuff and 1 linsey-woolsey gown - and underwear . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,600 - 8 wooden goblets . . . . . . . . . . . . 800 - Various table furniture . . . . . . . . .10,000 - 1 deal table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000 - 8 stools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,000 - 2 miller guns, loaded . . . . . . . . . . 3,000 - -He ceased. There was a pale and awful silence. Not a limb stirred. -Not a nostril betrayed the passage of breath. - -"Is that all?" I asked, in a voice of the most perfect calmness. - -"All, fair sir, save that certain matters of light moment are -placed together under a head hight sundries. If it would like -you, I will sepa--" - -"It is of no consequence," I said, accompanying the words with -a gesture of the most utter indifference; "give me the grand -total, please." - -The clerk leaned against the tree to stay himself, and said: - -"Thirty-nine thousand one hundred and fifty milrays!" - -The wheelwright fell off his stool, the others grabbed the table -to save themselves, and there was a deep and general ejaculation of: - -"God be with us in the day of disaster!" - -The clerk hastened to say: - -"My father chargeth me to say he cannot honorably require you -to pay it all at this time, and therefore only prayeth you--" - -I paid no more heed than if it were the idle breeze, but, with an -air of indifference amounting almost to weariness, got out my money -and tossed four dollars on to the table. Ah, you should have seen -them stare! - -The clerk was astonished and charmed. He asked me to retain -one of the dollars as security, until he could go to town and ---I interrupted: - -"What, and fetch back nine cents? Nonsense! Take the whole. -Keep the change." - -There was an amazed murmur to this effect: - -"Verily this being is _made_ of money! He throweth it away even -as if it were dirt." - -The blacksmith was a crushed man. - -The clerk took his money and reeled away drunk with fortune. I said -to Marco and his wife: - -"Good folk, here is a little trifle for you"--handing the miller-guns -as if it were a matter of no consequence, though each of them -contained fifteen cents in solid cash; and while the poor creatures -went to pieces with astonishment and gratitude, I turned to the -others and said as calmly as one would ask the time of day: - -"Well, if we are all ready, I judge the dinner is. Come, fall to." - -Ah, well, it was immense; yes, it was a daisy. I don't know that -I ever put a situation together better, or got happier spectacular -effects out of the materials available. The blacksmith--well, he -was simply mashed. Land! I wouldn't have felt what that man was -feeling, for anything in the world. Here he had been blowing and -bragging about his grand meat-feast twice a year, and his fresh -meat twice a month, and his salt meat twice a week, and his white -bread every Sunday the year round--all for a family of three; the -entire cost for the year not above 69.2.6 (sixty-nine cents, two -mills and six milrays), and all of a sudden here comes along a man -who slashes out nearly four dollars on a single blow-out; and not -only that, but acts as if it made him tired to handle such small -sums. Yes, Dowley was a good deal wilted, and shrunk-up and -collapsed; he had the aspect of a bladder-balloon that's been -stepped on by a cow. - - - -CHAPTER XXXIII - -SIXTH CENTURY POLITICAL ECONOMY - -However, I made a dead set at him, and before the first third -of the dinner was reached, I had him happy again. It was easy -to do--in a country of ranks and castes. You see, in a country -where they have ranks and castes, a man isn't ever a man, he is -only part of a man, he can't ever get his full growth. You prove -your superiority over him in station, or rank, or fortune, and -that's the end of it--he knuckles down. You can't insult him -after that. No, I don't mean quite that; of course you _can_ insult -him, I only mean it's difficult; and so, unless you've got a lot -of useless time on your hands it doesn't pay to try. I had the -smith's reverence now, because I was apparently immensely prosperous -and rich; I could have had his adoration if I had had some little -gimcrack title of nobility. And not only his, but any commoner's -in the land, though he were the mightiest production of all the ages, -in intellect, worth, and character, and I bankrupt in all three. -This was to remain so, as long as England should exist in the -earth. With the spirit of prophecy upon me, I could look into -the future and see her erect statues and monuments to her unspeakable -Georges and other royal and noble clothes-horses, and leave unhonored -the creators of this world--after God--Gutenburg, Watt, Arkwright, -Whitney, Morse, Stephenson, Bell. - -The king got his cargo aboard, and then, the talk not turning upon -battle, conquest, or iron-clad duel, he dulled down to drowsiness -and went off to take a nap. Mrs. Marco cleared the table, placed -the beer keg handy, and went away to eat her dinner of leavings -in humble privacy, and the rest of us soon drifted into matters -near and dear to the hearts of our sort--business and wages, -of course. At a first glance, things appeared to be exceeding -prosperous in this little tributary kingdom--whose lord was -King Bagdemagus--as compared with the state of things in my own -region. They had the "protection" system in full force here, -whereas we were working along down toward free-trade, by easy -stages, and were now about half way. Before long, Dowley and I -were doing all the talking, the others hungrily listening. Dowley -warmed to his work, snuffed an advantage in the air, and began -to put questions which he considered pretty awkward ones for me, -and they did have something of that look: - -"In your country, brother, what is the wage of a master bailiff, -master hind, carter, shepherd, swineherd?" - -"Twenty-five milrays a day; that is to say, a quarter of a cent." - -The smith's face beamed with joy. He said: - -"With us they are allowed the double of it! And what may a mechanic -get--carpenter, dauber, mason, painter, blacksmith, wheelwright, -and the like?" - -"On the average, fifty milrays; half a cent a day." - -"Ho-ho! With us they are allowed a hundred! With us any good -mechanic is allowed a cent a day! I count out the tailor, but -not the others--they are all allowed a cent a day, and in driving -times they get more--yes, up to a hundred and ten and even fifteen -milrays a day. I've paid a hundred and fifteen myself, within -the week. 'Rah for protection--to Sheol with free-trade!" - -And his face shone upon the company like a sunburst. But I didn't -scare at all. I rigged up my pile-driver, and allowed myself -fifteen minutes to drive him into the earth--drive him _all_ in ---drive him in till not even the curve of his skull should show -above ground. Here is the way I started in on him. I asked: - -"What do you pay a pound for salt?" - -"A hundred milrays." - -"We pay forty. What do you pay for beef and mutton--when you -buy it?" That was a neat hit; it made the color come. - -"It varieth somewhat, but not much; one may say seventy-five milrays -the pound." - -"_We_ pay thirty-three. What do you pay for eggs?" - -"Fifty milrays the dozen." - -"We pay twenty. What do you pay for beer?" - -"It costeth us eight and one-half milrays the pint." - -"We get it for four; twenty-five bottles for a cent. -What do you pay for wheat?" - -"At the rate of nine hundred milrays the bushel." - -"We pay four hundred. What do you pay for a man's tow-linen suit?" - -"Thirteen cents." - -"We pay six. What do you pay for a stuff gown for the wife of the -laborer or the mechanic?" - -"We pay eight cents, four mills." - -"Well, observe the difference: you pay eight cents and four mills, -we pay only four cents." I prepared now to sock it to him. I said: -"Look here, dear friend, _what's become of your high wages you -were bragging so about a few minutes ago?_"--and I looked around -on the company with placid satisfaction, for I had slipped up -on him gradually and tied him hand and foot, you see, without his -ever noticing that he was being tied at all. "What's become of -those noble high wages of yours?--I seem to have knocked the -stuffing all out of them, it appears to me." - -But if you will believe me, he merely looked surprised, that -is all! he didn't grasp the situation at all, didn't know he had -walked into a trap, didn't discover that he was _in_ a trap. I could -have shot him, from sheer vexation. With cloudy eye and a struggling -intellect he fetched this out: - -"Marry, I seem not to understand. It is _proved_ that our wages -be double thine; how then may it be that thou'st knocked therefrom -the stuffing?--an miscall not the wonderly word, this being the -first time under grace and providence of God it hath been granted -me to hear it." - -Well, I was stunned; partly with this unlooked-for stupidity on -his part, and partly because his fellows so manifestly sided with -him and were of his mind--if you might call it mind. My position -was simple enough, plain enough; how could it ever be simplified -more? However, I must try: - -"Why, look here, brother Dowley, don't you see? Your wages are -merely higher than ours in _name_, not in _fact_." - -"Hear him! They are the _double_--ye have confessed it yourself." - -"Yes-yes, I don't deny that at all. But that's got nothing to do -with it; the _amount_ of the wages in mere coins, with meaningless -names attached to them to know them by, has got nothing to do -with it. The thing is, how much can you _buy_ with your wages? ---that's the idea. While it is true that with you a good mechanic -is allowed about three dollars and a half a year, and with us only -about a dollar and seventy-five--" - -"There--ye're confessing it again, ye're confessing it again!" - -"Confound it, I've never denied it, I tell you! What I say is -this. With us _half_ a dollar buys more than a _dollar_ buys -with you--and THEREFORE it stands to reason and the commonest -kind of common-sense, that our wages are _higher_ than yours." - -He looked dazed, and said, despairingly: - -"Verily, I cannot make it out. Ye've just said ours are the -higher, and with the same breath ye take it back." - -"Oh, great Scott, isn't it possible to get such a simple thing -through your head? Now look here--let me illustrate. We pay -four cents for a woman's stuff gown, you pay 8.4.0, which is -four mills more than _double_. What do you allow a laboring -woman who works on a farm?" - -"Two mills a day." - -"Very good; we allow but half as much; we pay her only a tenth -of a cent a day; and--" - -"Again ye're conf--" - -"Wait! Now, you see, the thing is very simple; this time you'll -understand it. For instance, it takes your woman 42 days to earn -her gown, at 2 mills a day--7 weeks' work; but ours earns hers -in forty days--two days _short_ of 7 weeks. Your woman has a gown, -and her whole seven weeks wages are gone; ours has a gown, and -two days' wages left, to buy something else with. There--_now_ -you understand it!" - -He looked--well, he merely looked dubious, it's the most I can say; -so did the others. I waited--to let the thing work. Dowley spoke -at last--and betrayed the fact that he actually hadn't gotten away -from his rooted and grounded superstitions yet. He said, with -a trifle of hesitancy: - -"But--but--ye cannot fail to grant that two mills a day is better -than one." - -Shucks! Well, of course, I hated to give it up. So I chanced -another flyer: - -"Let us suppose a case. Suppose one of your journeymen goes out -and buys the following articles: - - "1 pound of salt; - 1 dozen eggs; - 1 dozen pints of beer; - 1 bushel of wheat; - 1 tow-linen suit; - 5 pounds of beef; - 5 pounds of mutton. - -"The lot will cost him 32 cents. It takes him 32 working days -to earn the money--5 weeks and 2 days. Let him come to us and -work 32 days at _half_ the wages; he can buy all those things for -a shade under 14 1/2 cents; they will cost him a shade under 29 -days' work, and he will have about half a week's wages over. Carry -it through the year; he would save nearly a week's wages every -two months, _your_ man nothing; thus saving five or six weeks' wages -in a year, your man not a cent. _Now_ I reckon you understand that -'high wages' and 'low wages' are phrases that don't mean anything -in the world until you find out which of them will _buy_ the most!" - -It was a crusher. - -But, alas! it didn't crush. No, I had to give it up. What those -people valued was _high wages_; it didn't seem to be a matter of -any consequence to them whether the high wages would buy anything -or not. They stood for "protection," and swore by it, which was -reasonable enough, because interested parties had gulled them into -the notion that it was protection which had created their high -wages. I proved to them that in a quarter of a century their wages -had advanced but 30 per cent., while the cost of living had gone -up 100; and that with us, in a shorter time, wages had advanced -40 per cent. while the cost of living had gone steadily down. But -it didn't do any good. Nothing could unseat their strange beliefs. - -Well, I was smarting under a sense of defeat. Undeserved defeat, -but what of that? That didn't soften the smart any. And to think -of the circumstances! the first statesman of the age, the capablest -man, the best-informed man in the entire world, the loftiest -uncrowned head that had moved through the clouds of any political -firmament for centuries, sitting here apparently defeated in -argument by an ignorant country blacksmith! And I could see that -those others were sorry for me--which made me blush till I could -smell my whiskers scorching. Put yourself in my place; feel as mean -as I did, as ashamed as I felt--wouldn't _you_ have struck below the -belt to get even? Yes, you would; it is simply human nature. -Well, that is what I did. I am not trying to justify it; I'm only -saying that I was mad, and _anybody_ would have done it. - -Well, when I make up my mind to hit a man, I don't plan out -a love-tap; no, that isn't my way; as long as I'm going to hit him -at all, I'm going to hit him a lifter. And I don't jump at him -all of a sudden, and risk making a blundering half-way business -of it; no, I get away off yonder to one side, and work up on him -gradually, so that he never suspects that I'm going to hit him -at all; and by and by, all in a flash, he's flat on his back, and -he can't tell for the life of him how it all happened. That is -the way I went for brother Dowley. I started to talking lazy and -comfortable, as if I was just talking to pass the time; and the -oldest man in the world couldn't have taken the bearings of my -starting place and guessed where I was going to fetch up: - -"Boys, there's a good many curious things about law, and custom, -and usage, and all that sort of thing, when you come to look at it; -yes, and about the drift and progress of human opinion and movement, -too. There are written laws--they perish; but there are also -unwritten laws--_they_ are eternal. Take the unwritten law of wages: -it says they've got to advance, little by little, straight through -the centuries. And notice how it works. We know what wages are -now, here and there and yonder; we strike an average, and say that's -the wages of to-day. We know what the wages were a hundred years -ago, and what they were two hundred years ago; that's as far back -as we can get, but it suffices to give us the law of progress, -the measure and rate of the periodical augmentation; and so, without -a document to help us, we can come pretty close to determining -what the wages were three and four and five hundred years ago. -Good, so far. Do we stop there? No. We stop looking backward; -we face around and apply the law to the future. My friends, I can -tell you what people's wages are going to be at any date in the -future you want to know, for hundreds and hundreds of years." - -"What, goodman, what!" - -"Yes. In seven hundred years wages will have risen to six times -what they are now, here in your region, and farm hands will be -allowed 3 cents a day, and mechanics 6." - -"I would't I might die now and live then!" interrupted Smug, the -wheelwright, with a fine avaricious glow in his eye. - -"And that isn't all; they'll get their board besides--such as it is: -it won't bloat them. Two hundred and fifty years later--pay attention -now--a mechanic's wages will be--mind you, this is law, not -guesswork; a mechanic's wages will then be _twenty_ cents a day!" - -There was a general gasp of awed astonishment, Dickon the mason -murmured, with raised eyes and hands: - -"More than three weeks' pay for one day's work!" - -"Riches!--of a truth, yes, riches!" muttered Marco, his breath -coming quick and short, with excitement. - -"Wages will keep on rising, little by little, little by little, -as steadily as a tree grows, and at the end of three hundred and -forty years more there'll be at least _one_ country where the -mechanic's average wage will be _two hundred_ cents a day!" - -It knocked them absolutely dumb! Not a man of them could get -his breath for upwards of two minutes. Then the coal-burner -said prayerfully: - -"Might I but live to see it!" - -"It is the income of an earl!" said Smug. - -"An earl, say ye?" said Dowley; "ye could say more than that and -speak no lie; there's no earl in the realm of Bagdemagus that hath -an income like to that. Income of an earl--mf! it's the income -of an angel!" - -"Now, then, that is what is going to happen as regards wages. -In that remote day, that man will earn, with _one_ week's work, -that bill of goods which it takes you upwards of _fifty_ weeks to -earn now. Some other pretty surprising things are going to happen, -too. Brother Dowley, who is it that determines, every spring, -what the particular wage of each kind of mechanic, laborer, and -servant shall be for that year?" - -"Sometimes the courts, sometimes the town council; but most of all, -the magistrate. Ye may say, in general terms, it is the magistrate -that fixes the wages." - -"Doesn't ask any of those poor devils to _help_ him fix their wages -for them, does he?" - -"Hm! That _were_ an idea! The master that's to pay him the money -is the one that's rightly concerned in that matter, ye will notice." - -"Yes--but I thought the other man might have some little trifle -at stake in it, too; and even his wife and children, poor creatures. -The masters are these: nobles, rich men, the prosperous generally. -These few, who do no work, determine what pay the vast hive shall -have who _do_ work. You see? They're a 'combine'--a trade union, -to coin a new phrase--who band themselves together to force their -lowly brother to take what they choose to give. Thirteen hundred -years hence--so says the unwritten law--the 'combine' will be the -other way, and then how these fine people's posterity will fume -and fret and grit their teeth over the insolent tyranny of trade -unions! Yes, indeed! the magistrate will tranquilly arrange the -wages from now clear away down into the nineteenth century; and -then all of a sudden the wage-earner will consider that a couple -of thousand years or so is enough of this one-sided sort of thing; -and he will rise up and take a hand in fixing his wages himself. -Ah, he will have a long and bitter account of wrong and humiliation -to settle." - -"Do ye believe--" - -"That he actually will help to fix his own wages? Yes, indeed. -And he will be strong and able, then." - -"Brave times, brave times, of a truth!" sneered the prosperous smith. - -"Oh,--and there's another detail. In that day, a master may hire -a man for only just one day, or one week, or one month at a time, -if he wants to." - -"What?" - -"It's true. Moreover, a magistrate won't be able to force a man -to work for a master a whole year on a stretch whether the man -wants to or not." - -"Will there be _no_ law or sense in that day?" - -"Both of them, Dowley. In that day a man will be his own property, -not the property of magistrate and master. And he can leave town -whenever he wants to, if the wages don't suit him!--and they can't -put him in the pillory for it." - -"Perdition catch such an age!" shouted Dowley, in strong indignation. -"An age of dogs, an age barren of reverence for superiors and -respect for authority! The pillory--" - -"Oh, wait, brother; say no good word for that institution. I think -the pillory ought to be abolished." - -"A most strange idea. Why?" - -"Well, I'll tell you why. Is a man ever put in the pillory for -a capital crime?" - -"No." - -"Is it right to condemn a man to a slight punishment for a small -offense and then kill him?" - -There was no answer. I had scored my first point! For the first -time, the smith wasn't up and ready. The company noticed it. -Good effect. - -"You don't answer, brother. You were about to glorify the pillory -a while ago, and shed some pity on a future age that isn't going -to use it. I think the pillory ought to be abolished. What -usually happens when a poor fellow is put in the pillory for some -little offense that didn't amount to anything in the world? The -mob try to have some fun with him, don't they?" - -"Yes." - -"They begin by clodding him; and they laugh themselves to pieces -to see him try to dodge one clod and get hit with another?" - -"Yes." - -"Then they throw dead cats at him, don't they?" - -"Yes." - -"Well, then, suppose he has a few personal enemies in that mob -and here and there a man or a woman with a secret grudge against -him--and suppose especially that he is unpopular in the community, -for his pride, or his prosperity, or one thing or another--stones -and bricks take the place of clods and cats presently, don't they?" - -"There is no doubt of it." - -"As a rule he is crippled for life, isn't he?--jaws broken, teeth -smashed out?--or legs mutilated, gangrened, presently cut off? ---or an eye knocked out, maybe both eyes?" - -"It is true, God knoweth it." - -"And if he is unpopular he can depend on _dying_, right there in -the stocks, can't he?" - -"He surely can! One may not deny it." - -"I take it none of _you_ are unpopular--by reason of pride or -insolence, or conspicuous prosperity, or any of those things that -excite envy and malice among the base scum of a village? _You_ -wouldn't think it much of a risk to take a chance in the stocks?" - -Dowley winced, visibly. I judged he was hit. But he didn't betray -it by any spoken word. As for the others, they spoke out plainly, -and with strong feeling. They said they had seen enough of the -stocks to know what a man's chance in them was, and they would -never consent to enter them if they could compromise on a quick -death by hanging. - -"Well, to change the subject--for I think I've established my -point that the stocks ought to be abolished. I think some of our -laws are pretty unfair. For instance, if I do a thing which ought -to deliver me to the stocks, and you know I did it and yet keep -still and don't report me, _you_ will get the stocks if anybody -informs on you." - -"Ah, but that would serve you but right," said Dowley, "for you -_must_ inform. So saith the law." - -The others coincided. - -"Well, all right, let it go, since you vote me down. But there's -one thing which certainly isn't fair. The magistrate fixes a -mechanic's wage at one cent a day, for instance. The law says that -if any master shall venture, even under utmost press of business, -to pay anything _over_ that cent a day, even for a single day, he -shall be both fined and pilloried for it; and whoever knows he did -it and doesn't inform, they also shall be fined and pilloried. Now -it seems to me unfair, Dowley, and a deadly peril to all of us, -that because you thoughtlessly confessed, a while ago, that within -a week you have paid a cent and fifteen mil--" - -Oh, I tell _you_ it was a smasher! You ought to have seen them to -go to pieces, the whole gang. I had just slipped up on poor -smiling and complacent Dowley so nice and easy and softly, that -he never suspected anything was going to happen till the blow -came crashing down and knocked him all to rags. - -A fine effect. In fact, as fine as any I ever produced, with so -little time to work it up in. - -But I saw in a moment that I had overdone the thing a little. -I was expecting to scare them, but I wasn't expecting to scare -them to death. They were mighty near it, though. You see they -had been a whole lifetime learning to appreciate the pillory; and -to have that thing staring them in the face, and every one of them -distinctly at the mercy of me, a stranger, if I chose to go and -report--well, it was awful, and they couldn't seem to recover -from the shock, they couldn't seem to pull themselves together. -Pale, shaky, dumb, pitiful? Why, they weren't any better than -so many dead men. It was very uncomfortable. Of course, I thought -they would appeal to me to keep mum, and then we would shake hands, -and take a drink all round, and laugh it off, and there an end. -But no; you see I was an unknown person, among a cruelly oppressed -and suspicious people, a people always accustomed to having advantage -taken of their helplessness, and never expecting just or kind -treatment from any but their own families and very closest intimates. -Appeal to _me_ to be gentle, to be fair, to be generous? Of course, -they wanted to, but they couldn't dare. - - - -CHAPTER XXXIV - -THE YANKEE AND THE KING SOLD AS SLAVES - -Well, what had I better do? Nothing in a hurry, sure. I must -get up a diversion; anything to employ me while I could think, -and while these poor fellows could have a chance to come to life -again. There sat Marco, petrified in the act of trying to get -the hang of his miller-gun--turned to stone, just in the attitude -he was in when my pile-driver fell, the toy still gripped in his -unconscious fingers. So I took it from him and proposed to explain -its mystery. Mystery! a simple little thing like that; and yet it -was mysterious enough, for that race and that age. - -I never saw such an awkward people, with machinery; you see, they -were totally unused to it. The miller-gun was a little double-barreled -tube of toughened glass, with a neat little trick of a spring -to it, which upon pressure would let a shot escape. But the shot -wouldn't hurt anybody, it would only drop into your hand. In the -gun were two sizes--wee mustard-seed shot, and another sort that -were several times larger. They were money. The mustard-seed -shot represented milrays, the larger ones mills. So the gun was -a purse; and very handy, too; you could pay out money in the dark -with it, with accuracy; and you could carry it in your mouth; or -in your vest pocket, if you had one. I made them of several sizes ---one size so large that it would carry the equivalent of a dollar. -Using shot for money was a good thing for the government; the metal -cost nothing, and the money couldn't be counterfeited, for I was -the only person in the kingdom who knew how to manage a shot tower. -"Paying the shot" soon came to be a common phrase. Yes, and I knew -it would still be passing men's lips, away down in the nineteenth -century, yet none would suspect how and when it originated. - -The king joined us, about this time, mightily refreshed by his nap, -and feeling good. Anything could make me nervous now, I was so -uneasy--for our lives were in danger; and so it worried me to -detect a complacent something in the king's eye which seemed to -indicate that he had been loading himself up for a performance -of some kind or other; confound it, why must he go and choose -such a time as this? - -I was right. He began, straight off, in the most innocently -artful, and transparent, and lubberly way, to lead up to the -subject of agriculture. The cold sweat broke out all over me. -I wanted to whisper in his ear, "Man, we are in awful danger! -every moment is worth a principality till we get back these men's -confidence; _don't_ waste any of this golden time." But of course -I couldn't do it. Whisper to him? It would look as if we were -conspiring. So I had to sit there and look calm and pleasant while -the king stood over that dynamite mine and mooned along about his -damned onions and things. At first the tumult of my own thoughts, -summoned by the danger-signal and swarming to the rescue from -every quarter of my skull, kept up such a hurrah and confusion -and fifing and drumming that I couldn't take in a word; but -presently when my mob of gathering plans began to crystallize -and fall into position and form line of battle, a sort of order and -quiet ensued and I caught the boom of the king's batteries, as if -out of remote distance: - -"--were not the best way, methinks, albeit it is not to be denied -that authorities differ as concerning this point, some contending -that the onion is but an unwholesome berry when stricken early -from the tree--" - -The audience showed signs of life, and sought each other's eyes -in a surprised and troubled way. - -"--whileas others do yet maintain, with much show of reason, that -this is not of necessity the case, instancing that plums and other -like cereals do be always dug in the unripe state--" - -The audience exhibited distinct distress; yes, and also fear. - -"--yet are they clearly wholesome, the more especially when one -doth assuage the asperities of their nature by admixture of the -tranquilizing juice of the wayward cabbage--" - -The wild light of terror began to glow in these men's eyes, and -one of them muttered, "These be errors, every one--God hath surely -smitten the mind of this farmer." I was in miserable apprehension; -I sat upon thorns. - -"--and further instancing the known truth that in the case of -animals, the young, which may be called the green fruit of the -creature, is the better, all confessing that when a goat is ripe, -his fur doth heat and sore engame his flesh, the which defect, -taken in connection with his several rancid habits, and fulsome -appetites, and godless attitudes of mind, and bilious quality -of morals--" - -They rose and went for him! With a fierce shout, "The one would -betray us, the other is mad! Kill them! Kill them!" they flung -themselves upon us. What joy flamed up in the king's eye! He -might be lame in agriculture, but this kind of thing was just in -his line. He had been fasting long, he was hungry for a fight. -He hit the blacksmith a crack under the jaw that lifted him clear -off his feet and stretched him flat on his back. "St. George for -Britain!" and he downed the wheelwright. The mason was big, but -I laid him out like nothing. The three gathered themselves up and -came again; went down again; came again; and kept on repeating -this, with native British pluck, until they were battered to jelly, -reeling with exhaustion, and so blind that they couldn't tell us -from each other; and yet they kept right on, hammering away with -what might was left in them. Hammering each other--for we stepped -aside and looked on while they rolled, and struggled, and gouged, -and pounded, and bit, with the strict and wordless attention to -business of so many bulldogs. We looked on without apprehension, -for they were fast getting past ability to go for help against us, -and the arena was far enough from the public road to be safe -from intrusion. - -Well, while they were gradually playing out, it suddenly occurred -to me to wonder what had become of Marco. I looked around; he -was nowhere to be seen. Oh, but this was ominous! I pulled the -king's sleeve, and we glided away and rushed for the hut. No Marco -there, no Phyllis there! They had gone to the road for help, sure. -I told the king to give his heels wings, and I would explain later. -We made good time across the open ground, and as we darted into -the shelter of the wood I glanced back and saw a mob of excited -peasants swarm into view, with Marco and his wife at their head. -They were making a world of noise, but that couldn't hurt anybody; -the wood was dense, and as soon as we were well into its depths -we would take to a tree and let them whistle. Ah, but then came -another sound--dogs! Yes, that was quite another matter. It -magnified our contract--we must find running water. - -We tore along at a good gait, and soon left the sounds far behind -and modified to a murmur. We struck a stream and darted into it. -We waded swiftly down it, in the dim forest light, for as much -as three hundred yards, and then came across an oak with a great -bough sticking out over the water. We climbed up on this bough, -and began to work our way along it to the body of the tree; now -we began to hear those sounds more plainly; so the mob had struck -our trail. For a while the sounds approached pretty fast. And -then for another while they didn't. No doubt the dogs had found -the place where we had entered the stream, and were now waltzing -up and down the shores trying to pick up the trail again. - -When we were snugly lodged in the tree and curtained with foliage, -the king was satisfied, but I was doubtful. I believed we could -crawl along a branch and get into the next tree, and I judged it -worth while to try. We tried it, and made a success of it, though -the king slipped, at the junction, and came near failing to connect. -We got comfortable lodgment and satisfactory concealment among -the foliage, and then we had nothing to do but listen to the hunt. - -Presently we heard it coming--and coming on the jump, too; yes, -and down both sides of the stream. Louder--louder--next minute -it swelled swiftly up into a roar of shoutings, barkings, tramplings, -and swept by like a cyclone. - -"I was afraid that the overhanging branch would suggest something -to them," said I, "but I don't mind the disappointment. Come, -my liege, it were well that we make good use of our time. We've -flanked them. Dark is coming on, presently. If we can cross the -stream and get a good start, and borrow a couple of horses from -somebody's pasture to use for a few hours, we shall be safe enough." - -We started down, and got nearly to the lowest limb, when we seemed -to hear the hunt returning. We stopped to listen. - -"Yes," said I, "they're baffled, they've given it up, they're on -their way home. We will climb back to our roost again, and let -them go by." - -So we climbed back. The king listened a moment and said: - -"They still search--I wit the sign. We did best to abide." - -He was right. He knew more about hunting than I did. The noise -approached steadily, but not with a rush. The king said: - -"They reason that we were advantaged by no parlous start of them, -and being on foot are as yet no mighty way from where we took -the water." - -"Yes, sire, that is about it, I am afraid, though I was hoping -better things." - -The noise drew nearer and nearer, and soon the van was drifting -under us, on both sides of the water. A voice called a halt from -the other bank, and said: - -"An they were so minded, they could get to yon tree by this branch -that overhangs, and yet not touch ground. Ye will do well to send -a man up it." - -"Marry, that we will do!" - -I was obliged to admire my cuteness in foreseeing this very thing -and swapping trees to beat it. But, don't you know, there are -some things that can beat smartness and foresight? Awkwardness -and stupidity can. The best swordsman in the world doesn't need -to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person -for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never -had a sword in his hand before; he doesn't do the thing he ought -to do, and so the expert isn't prepared for him; he does the thing -he ought not to do; and often it catches the expert out and ends -him on the spot. Well, how could I, with all my gifts, make any -valuable preparation against a near-sighted, cross-eyed, pudding-headed -clown who would aim himself at the wrong tree and hit the right -one? And that is what he did. He went for the wrong tree, which -was, of course, the right one by mistake, and up he started. - -Matters were serious now. We remained still, and awaited developments. -The peasant toiled his difficult way up. The king raised himself -up and stood; he made a leg ready, and when the comer's head -arrived in reach of it there was a dull thud, and down went the man -floundering to the ground. There was a wild outbreak of anger -below, and the mob swarmed in from all around, and there we were -treed, and prisoners. Another man started up; the bridging bough -was detected, and a volunteer started up the tree that furnished -the bridge. The king ordered me to play Horatius and keep the -bridge. For a while the enemy came thick and fast; but no matter, -the head man of each procession always got a buffet that dislodged -him as soon as he came in reach. The king's spirits rose, his joy -was limitless. He said that if nothing occurred to mar the prospect -we should have a beautiful night, for on this line of tactics we -could hold the tree against the whole country-side. - -However, the mob soon came to that conclusion themselves; wherefore -they called off the assault and began to debate other plans. -They had no weapons, but there were plenty of stones, and stones -might answer. We had no objections. A stone might possibly -penetrate to us once in a while, but it wasn't very likely; we were -well protected by boughs and foliage, and were not visible from -any good aiming point. If they would but waste half an hour in -stone-throwing, the dark would come to our help. We were feeling -very well satisfied. We could smile; almost laugh. - -But we didn't; which was just as well, for we should have been -interrupted. Before the stones had been raging through the leaves -and bouncing from the boughs fifteen minutes, we began to notice -a smell. A couple of sniffs of it was enough of an explanation ---it was smoke! Our game was up at last. We recognized that. When -smoke invites you, you have to come. They raised their pile of -dry brush and damp weeds higher and higher, and when they saw -the thick cloud begin to roll up and smother the tree, they broke -out in a storm of joy-clamors. I got enough breath to say: - -"Proceed, my liege; after you is manners." - -The king gasped: - -"Follow me down, and then back thyself against one side of the -trunk, and leave me the other. Then will we fight. Let each pile -his dead according to his own fashion and taste." - -Then he descended, barking and coughing, and I followed. I struck -the ground an instant after him; we sprang to our appointed places, -and began to give and take with all our might. The powwow and -racket were prodigious; it was a tempest of riot and confusion and -thick-falling blows. Suddenly some horsemen tore into the midst -of the crowd, and a voice shouted: - -"Hold--or ye are dead men!" - -How good it sounded! The owner of the voice bore all the marks of -a gentleman: picturesque and costly raiment, the aspect of command, -a hard countenance, with complexion and features marred by dissipation. -The mob fell humbly back, like so many spaniels. The gentleman -inspected us critically, then said sharply to the peasants: - -"What are ye doing to these people?" - -"They be madmen, worshipful sir, that have come wandering we know -not whence, and--" - -"Ye know not whence? Do ye pretend ye know them not?" - -"Most honored sir, we speak but the truth. They are strangers -and unknown to any in this region; and they be the most violent -and bloodthirsty madmen that ever--" - -"Peace! Ye know not what ye say. They are not mad. Who are ye? -And whence are ye? Explain." - -"We are but peaceful strangers, sir," I said, "and traveling upon -our own concerns. We are from a far country, and unacquainted -here. We have purposed no harm; and yet but for your brave -interference and protection these people would have killed us. -As you have divined, sir, we are not mad; neither are we violent -or bloodthirsty." - -The gentleman turned to his retinue and said calmly: "Lash me -these animals to their kennels!" - -The mob vanished in an instant; and after them plunged the horsemen, -laying about them with their whips and pitilessly riding down such -as were witless enough to keep the road instead of taking to the -bush. The shrieks and supplications presently died away in the -distance, and soon the horsemen began to straggle back. Meantime -the gentleman had been questioning us more closely, but had dug -no particulars out of us. We were lavish of recognition of the -service he was doing us, but we revealed nothing more than that we -were friendless strangers from a far country. When the escort were -all returned, the gentleman said to one of his servants: - -"Bring the led-horses and mount these people." - -"Yes, my lord." - -We were placed toward the rear, among the servants. We traveled -pretty fast, and finally drew rein some time after dark at a -roadside inn some ten or twelve miles from the scene of our -troubles. My lord went immediately to his room, after ordering -his supper, and we saw no more of him. At dawn in the morning -we breakfasted and made ready to start. - -My lord's chief attendant sauntered forward at that moment with -indolent grace, and said: - -"Ye have said ye should continue upon this road, which is our -direction likewise; wherefore my lord, the earl Grip, hath given -commandment that ye retain the horses and ride, and that certain -of us ride with ye a twenty mile to a fair town that hight Cambenet, -whenso ye shall be out of peril." - -We could do nothing less than express our thanks and accept the -offer. We jogged along, six in the party, at a moderate and -comfortable gait, and in conversation learned that my lord Grip -was a very great personage in his own region, which lay a day's -journey beyond Cambenet. We loitered to such a degree that it was -near the middle of the forenoon when we entered the market square -of the town. We dismounted, and left our thanks once more for -my lord, and then approached a crowd assembled in the center of -the square, to see what might be the object of interest. It was the -remnant of that old peregrinating band of slaves! So they had -been dragging their chains about, all this weary time. That poor -husband was gone, and also many others; and some few purchases -had been added to the gang. The king was not interested, and -wanted to move along, but I was absorbed, and full of pity. I could -not take my eyes away from these worn and wasted wrecks of humanity. -There they sat, grounded upon the ground, silent, uncomplaining, -with bowed heads, a pathetic sight. And by hideous contrast, a -redundant orator was making a speech to another gathering not thirty -steps away, in fulsome laudation of "our glorious British liberties!" - -I was boiling. I had forgotten I was a plebeian, I was remembering -I was a man. Cost what it might, I would mount that rostrum and-- - -Click! the king and I were handcuffed together! Our companions, -those servants, had done it; my lord Grip stood looking on. The -king burst out in a fury, and said: - -"What meaneth this ill-mannered jest?" - -My lord merely said to his head miscreant, coolly: - -"Put up the slaves and sell them!" - -_Slaves!_ The word had a new sound--and how unspeakably awful! The -king lifted his manacles and brought them down with a deadly force; -but my lord was out of the way when they arrived. A dozen of -the rascal's servants sprang forward, and in a moment we were -helpless, with our hands bound behind us. We so loudly and so -earnestly proclaimed ourselves freemen, that we got the interested -attention of that liberty-mouthing orator and his patriotic crowd, -and they gathered about us and assumed a very determined attitude. -The orator said: - -"If, indeed, ye are freemen, ye have nought to fear--the God-given -liberties of Britain are about ye for your shield and shelter! -(Applause.) Ye shall soon see. Bring forth your proofs." - -"What proofs?" - -"Proof that ye are freemen." - -Ah--I remembered! I came to myself; I said nothing. But the -king stormed out: - -"Thou'rt insane, man. It were better, and more in reason, that -this thief and scoundrel here prove that we are _not_ freemen." - -You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know -the laws; by words, not by effects. They take a _meaning_, and get -to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself. - -All hands shook their heads and looked disappointed; some turned -away, no longer interested. The orator said--and this time in the -tones of business, not of sentiment: - -"An ye do not know your country's laws, it were time ye learned -them. Ye are strangers to us; ye will not deny that. Ye may be -freemen, we do not deny that; but also ye may be slaves. The law -is clear: it doth not require the claimant to prove ye are slaves, -it requireth you to prove ye are not." - -I said: - -"Dear sir, give us only time to send to Astolat; or give us only -time to send to the Valley of Holiness--" - -"Peace, good man, these are extraordinary requests, and you may -not hope to have them granted. It would cost much time, and would -unwarrantably inconvenience your master--" - -"_Master_, idiot!" stormed the king. "I have no master, I myself -am the m--" - -"Silence, for God's sake!" - -I got the words out in time to stop the king. We were in trouble -enough already; it could not help us any to give these people -the notion that we were lunatics. - -There is no use in stringing out the details. The earl put us up -and sold us at auction. This same infernal law had existed in -our own South in my own time, more than thirteen hundred years -later, and under it hundreds of freemen who could not prove that -they were freemen had been sold into lifelong slavery without -the circumstance making any particular impression upon me; but the -minute law and the auction block came into my personal experience, -a thing which had been merely improper before became suddenly -hellish. Well, that's the way we are made. - -Yes, we were sold at auction, like swine. In a big town and an -active market we should have brought a good price; but this place -was utterly stagnant and so we sold at a figure which makes me -ashamed, every time I think of it. The King of England brought -seven dollars, and his prime minister nine; whereas the king was -easily worth twelve dollars and I as easily worth fifteen. But -that is the way things always go; if you force a sale on a dull -market, I don't care what the property is, you are going to make -a poor business of it, and you can make up your mind to it. If -the earl had had wit enough to-- - -However, there is no occasion for my working my sympathies up -on his account. Let him go, for the present; I took his number, -so to speak. - -The slave-dealer bought us both, and hitched us onto that long -chain of his, and we constituted the rear of his procession. We -took up our line of march and passed out of Cambenet at noon; -and it seemed to me unaccountably strange and odd that the King -of England and his chief minister, marching manacled and fettered -and yoked, in a slave convoy, could move by all manner of idle men -and women, and under windows where sat the sweet and the lovely, -and yet never attract a curious eye, never provoke a single remark. -Dear, dear, it only shows that there is nothing diviner about a king -than there is about a tramp, after all. He is just a cheap and -hollow artificiality when you don't know he is a king. But reveal -his quality, and dear me it takes your very breath away to look -at him. I reckon we are all fools. Born so, no doubt. - - - -CHAPTER XXXV - -A PITIFUL INCIDENT - -It's a world of surprises. The king brooded; this was natural. -What would he brood about, should you say? Why, about the prodigious -nature of his fall, of course--from the loftiest place in the world -to the lowest; from the most illustrious station in the world to -the obscurest; from the grandest vocation among men to the basest. -No, I take my oath that the thing that graveled him most, to start -with, was not this, but the price he had fetched! He couldn't -seem to get over that seven dollars. Well, it stunned me so, when -I first found it out, that I couldn't believe it; it didn't seem -natural. But as soon as my mental sight cleared and I got a right -focus on it, I saw I was mistaken; it _was_ natural. For this -reason: a king is a mere artificiality, and so a king's feelings, -like the impulses of an automatic doll, are mere artificialities; -but as a man, he is a reality, and his feelings, as a man, are -real, not phantoms. It shames the average man to be valued below -his own estimate of his worth, and the king certainly wasn't -anything more than an average man, if he was up that high. - -Confound him, he wearied me with arguments to show that in anything -like a fair market he would have fetched twenty-five dollars, -sure--a thing which was plainly nonsense, and full or the baldest -conceit; I wasn't worth it myself. But it was tender ground for -me to argue on. In fact, I had to simply shirk argument and do -the diplomatic instead. I had to throw conscience aside, and -brazenly concede that he ought to have brought twenty-five dollars; -whereas I was quite well aware that in all the ages, the world had -never seen a king that was worth half the money, and during the -next thirteen centuries wouldn't see one that was worth the fourth -of it. Yes, he tired me. If he began to talk about the crops; -or about the recent weather; or about the condition of politics; -or about dogs, or cats, or morals, or theology--no matter what ---I sighed, for I knew what was coming; he was going to get out of it -a palliation of that tiresome seven-dollar sale. Wherever we -halted where there was a crowd, he would give me a look which -said plainly: "if that thing could be tried over again now, with -this kind of folk, you would see a different result." Well, when -he was first sold, it secretly tickled me to see him go for seven -dollars; but before he was done with his sweating and worrying -I wished he had fetched a hundred. The thing never got a chance -to die, for every day, at one place or another, possible purchasers -looked us over, and, as often as any other way, their comment on -the king was something like this: - -"Here's a two-dollar-and-a-half chump with a thirty-dollar style. -Pity but style was marketable." - -At last this sort of remark produced an evil result. Our owner -was a practical person and he perceived that this defect must be -mended if he hoped to find a purchaser for the king. So he went -to work to take the style out of his sacred majesty. I could have -given the man some valuable advice, but I didn't; you mustn't -volunteer advice to a slave-driver unless you want to damage -the cause you are arguing for. I had found it a sufficiently -difficult job to reduce the king's style to a peasant's style, -even when he was a willing and anxious pupil; now then, to undertake -to reduce the king's style to a slave's style--and by force--go to! -it was a stately contract. Never mind the details--it will save me -trouble to let you imagine them. I will only remark that at the -end of a week there was plenty of evidence that lash and club -and fist had done their work well; the king's body was a sight -to see--and to weep over; but his spirit?--why, it wasn't even -phased. Even that dull clod of a slave-driver was able to see -that there can be such a thing as a slave who will remain a man -till he dies; whose bones you can break, but whose manhood you -can't. This man found that from his first effort down to his -latest, he couldn't ever come within reach of the king, but the -king was ready to plunge for him, and did it. So he gave up -at last, and left the king in possession of his style unimpaired. -The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was -a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him. - -We had a rough time for a month, tramping to and fro in the earth, -and suffering. And what Englishman was the most interested in -the slavery question by that time? His grace the king! Yes; from -being the most indifferent, he was become the most interested. -He was become the bitterest hater of the institution I had ever -heard talk. And so I ventured to ask once more a question which -I had asked years before and had gotten such a sharp answer that -I had not thought it prudent to meddle in the matter further. -Would he abolish slavery? - -His answer was as sharp as before, but it was music this time; -I shouldn't ever wish to hear pleasanter, though the profanity -was not good, being awkwardly put together, and with the crash-word -almost in the middle instead of at the end, where, of course, it -ought to have been. - -I was ready and willing to get free now; I hadn't wanted to get -free any sooner. No, I cannot quite say that. I had wanted to, -but I had not been willing to take desperate chances, and had -always dissuaded the king from them. But now--ah, it was a new -atmosphere! Liberty would be worth any cost that might be put -upon it now. I set about a plan, and was straightway charmed -with it. It would require time, yes, and patience, too, a great -deal of both. One could invent quicker ways, and fully as sure -ones; but none that would be as picturesque as this; none that -could be made so dramatic. And so I was not going to give this -one up. It might delay us months, but no matter, I would carry -it out or break something. - -Now and then we had an adventure. One night we were overtaken -by a snow-storm while still a mile from the village we were making -for. Almost instantly we were shut up as in a fog, the driving -snow was so thick. You couldn't see a thing, and we were soon -lost. The slave-driver lashed us desperately, for he saw ruin -before him, but his lashings only made matters worse, for they -drove us further from the road and from likelihood of succor. -So we had to stop at last and slump down in the snow where we -were. The storm continued until toward midnight, then ceased. -By this time two of our feebler men and three of our women were -dead, and others past moving and threatened with death. Our -master was nearly beside himself. He stirred up the living, and -made us stand, jump, slap ourselves, to restore our circulation, -and he helped as well as he could with his whip. - -Now came a diversion. We heard shrieks and yells, and soon a -woman came running and crying; and seeing our group, she flung -herself into our midst and begged for protection. A mob of people -came tearing after her, some with torches, and they said she was a -witch who had caused several cows to die by a strange disease, -and practiced her arts by help of a devil in the form of a black -cat. This poor woman had been stoned until she hardly looked -human, she was so battered and bloody. The mob wanted to burn her. - -Well, now, what do you suppose our master did? When we closed -around this poor creature to shelter her, he saw his chance. He -said, burn her here, or they shouldn't have her at all. Imagine -that! They were willing. They fastened her to a post; they -brought wood and piled it about her; they applied the torch while -she shrieked and pleaded and strained her two young daughters -to her breast; and our brute, with a heart solely for business, -lashed us into position about the stake and warmed us into life -and commercial value by the same fire which took away the innocent -life of that poor harmless mother. That was the sort of master we -had. I took _his_ number. That snow-storm cost him nine of his -flock; and he was more brutal to us than ever, after that, for -many days together, he was so enraged over his loss. - -We had adventures all along. One day we ran into a procession. -And such a procession! All the riffraff of the kingdom seemed -to be comprehended in it; and all drunk at that. In the van was -a cart with a coffin in it, and on the coffin sat a comely young -girl of about eighteen suckling a baby, which she squeezed to her -breast in a passion of love every little while, and every little -while wiped from its face the tears which her eyes rained down -upon it; and always the foolish little thing smiled up at her, -happy and content, kneading her breast with its dimpled fat hand, -which she patted and fondled right over her breaking heart. - -Men and women, boys and girls, trotted along beside or after -the cart, hooting, shouting profane and ribald remarks, singing -snatches of foul song, skipping, dancing--a very holiday of -hellions, a sickening sight. We had struck a suburb of London, -outside the walls, and this was a sample of one sort of London -society. Our master secured a good place for us near the gallows. -A priest was in attendance, and he helped the girl climb up, and -said comforting words to her, and made the under-sheriff provide -a stool for her. Then he stood there by her on the gallows, and -for a moment looked down upon the mass of upturned faces at his -feet, then out over the solid pavement of heads that stretched away -on every side occupying the vacancies far and near, and then began -to tell the story of the case. And there was pity in his voice ---how seldom a sound that was in that ignorant and savage land! -I remember every detail of what he said, except the words he said -it in; and so I change it into my own words: - -"Law is intended to mete out justice. Sometimes it fails. This -cannot be helped. We can only grieve, and be resigned, and pray -for the soul of him who falls unfairly by the arm of the law, and -that his fellows may be few. A law sends this poor young thing -to death--and it is right. But another law had placed her where -she must commit her crime or starve with her child--and before God -that law is responsible for both her crime and her ignominious death! - -"A little while ago this young thing, this child of eighteen years, -was as happy a wife and mother as any in England; and her lips -were blithe with song, which is the native speech of glad and -innocent hearts. Her young husband was as happy as she; for he was -doing his whole duty, he worked early and late at his handicraft, -his bread was honest bread well and fairly earned, he was prospering, -he was furnishing shelter and sustenance to his family, he was -adding his mite to the wealth of the nation. By consent of a -treacherous law, instant destruction fell upon this holy home and -swept it away! That young husband was waylaid and impressed, -and sent to sea. The wife knew nothing of it. She sought him -everywhere, she moved the hardest hearts with the supplications -of her tears, the broken eloquence of her despair. Weeks dragged -by, she watching, waiting, hoping, her mind going slowly to wreck -under the burden of her misery. Little by little all her small -possessions went for food. When she could no longer pay her rent, -they turned her out of doors. She begged, while she had strength; -when she was starving at last, and her milk failing, she stole a -piece of linen cloth of the value of a fourth part of a cent, -thinking to sell it and save her child. But she was seen by the -owner of the cloth. She was put in jail and brought to trial. -The man testified to the facts. A plea was made for her, and her -sorrowful story was told in her behalf. She spoke, too, by -permission, and said she did steal the cloth, but that her mind -was so disordered of late by trouble that when she was overborne -with hunger all acts, criminal or other, swam meaningless through -her brain and she knew nothing rightly, except that she was so -hungry! For a moment all were touched, and there was disposition -to deal mercifully with her, seeing that she was so young and -friendless, and her case so piteous, and the law that robbed her -of her support to blame as being the first and only cause of her -transgression; but the prosecuting officer replied that whereas -these things were all true, and most pitiful as well, still there -was much small theft in these days, and mistimed mercy here would -be a danger to property--oh, my God, is there no property in ruined -homes, and orphaned babes, and broken hearts that British law -holds precious!--and so he must require sentence. - -"When the judge put on his black cap, the owner of the stolen -linen rose trembling up, his lip quivering, his face as gray as -ashes; and when the awful words came, he cried out, 'Oh, poor -child, poor child, I did not know it was death!' and fell as a -tree falls. When they lifted him up his reason was gone; before -the sun was set, he had taken his own life. A kindly man; a man -whose heart was right, at bottom; add his murder to this that -is to be now done here; and charge them both where they belong ---to the rulers and the bitter laws of Britain. The time is come, my -child; let me pray over thee--not _for_ thee, dear abused poor heart -and innocent, but for them that be guilty of thy ruin and death, -who need it more." - -After his prayer they put the noose around the young girl's neck, -and they had great trouble to adjust the knot under her ear, -because she was devouring the baby all the time, wildly kissing it, -and snatching it to her face and her breast, and drenching it -with tears, and half moaning, half shrieking all the while, and the -baby crowing, and laughing, and kicking its feet with delight over -what it took for romp and play. Even the hangman couldn't stand it, -but turned away. When all was ready the priest gently pulled and -tugged and forced the child out of the mother's arms, and stepped -quickly out of her reach; but she clasped her hands, and made a -wild spring toward him, with a shriek; but the rope--and the -under-sheriff--held her short. Then she went on her knees and -stretched out her hands and cried: - -"One more kiss--oh, my God, one more, one more,--it is the dying -that begs it!" - -She got it; she almost smothered the little thing. And when they -got it away again, she cried out: - -"Oh, my child, my darling, it will die! It has no home, it has -no father, no friend, no mother--" - -"It has them all!" said that good priest. "All these will I be -to it till I die." - -You should have seen her face then! Gratitude? Lord, what do -you want with words to express that? Words are only painted fire; -a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away -to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong. - - - -CHAPTER XXXVI - -AN ENCOUNTER IN THE DARK - -London--to a slave--was a sufficiently interesting place. It was -merely a great big village; and mainly mud and thatch. The streets -were muddy, crooked, unpaved. The populace was an ever flocking -and drifting swarm of rags, and splendors, of nodding plumes and -shining armor. The king had a palace there; he saw the outside -of it. It made him sigh; yes, and swear a little, in a poor -juvenile sixth century way. We saw knights and grandees whom -we knew, but they didn't know us in our rags and dirt and raw -welts and bruises, and wouldn't have recognized us if we had hailed -them, nor stopped to answer, either, it being unlawful to speak -with slaves on a chain. Sandy passed within ten yards of me on -a mule--hunting for me, I imagined. But the thing which clean -broke my heart was something which happened in front of our old -barrack in a square, while we were enduring the spectacle of a man -being boiled to death in oil for counterfeiting pennies. It was -the sight of a newsboy--and I couldn't get at him! Still, I had -one comfort--here was proof that Clarence was still alive and -banging away. I meant to be with him before long; the thought was -full of cheer. - -I had one little glimpse of another thing, one day, which gave me -a great uplift. It was a wire stretching from housetop to housetop. -Telegraph or telephone, sure. I did very much wish I had a little -piece of it. It was just what I needed, in order to carry out my -project of escape. My idea was to get loose some night, along with -the king, then gag and bind our master, change clothes with him, -batter him into the aspect of a stranger, hitch him to the slave-chain, -assume possession of the property, march to Camelot, and-- - -But you get my idea; you see what a stunning dramatic surprise -I would wind up with at the palace. It was all feasible, if -I could only get hold of a slender piece of iron which I could -shape into a lock-pick. I could then undo the lumbering padlocks -with which our chains were fastened, whenever I might choose. -But I never had any luck; no such thing ever happened to fall -in my way. However, my chance came at last. A gentleman who -had come twice before to dicker for me, without result, or indeed -any approach to a result, came again. I was far from expecting -ever to belong to him, for the price asked for me from the time -I was first enslaved was exorbitant, and always provoked either -anger or derision, yet my master stuck stubbornly to it--twenty-two -dollars. He wouldn't bate a cent. The king was greatly admired, -because of his grand physique, but his kingly style was against -him, and he wasn't salable; nobody wanted that kind of a slave. -I considered myself safe from parting from him because of my -extravagant price. No, I was not expecting to ever belong to -this gentleman whom I have spoken of, but he had something which -I expected would belong to me eventually, if he would but visit -us often enough. It was a steel thing with a long pin to it, with -which his long cloth outside garment was fastened together in -front. There were three of them. He had disappointed me twice, -because he did not come quite close enough to me to make my project -entirely safe; but this time I succeeded; I captured the lower -clasp of the three, and when he missed it he thought he had lost -it on the way. - -I had a chance to be glad about a minute, then straightway a chance -to be sad again. For when the purchase was about to fail, as usual, -the master suddenly spoke up and said what would be worded thus ---in modern English: - -"I'll tell you what I'll do. I'm tired supporting these two for -no good. Give me twenty-two dollars for this one, and I'll throw -the other one in." - -The king couldn't get his breath, he was in such a fury. He began -to choke and gag, and meantime the master and the gentleman moved -away discussing. - -"An ye will keep the offer open--" - -"'Tis open till the morrow at this hour." - -"Then I will answer you at that time," said the gentleman, and -disappeared, the master following him. - -I had a time of it to cool the king down, but I managed it. -I whispered in his ear, to this effect: - -"Your grace _will_ go for nothing, but after another fashion. And -so shall I. To-night we shall both be free." - -"Ah! How is that?" - -"With this thing which I have stolen, I will unlock these locks -and cast off these chains to-night. When he comes about nine-thirty -to inspect us for the night, we will seize him, gag him, batter -him, and early in the morning we will march out of this town, -proprietors of this caravan of slaves." - -That was as far as I went, but the king was charmed and satisfied. -That evening we waited patiently for our fellow-slaves to get -to sleep and signify it by the usual sign, for you must not take -many chances on those poor fellows if you can avoid it. It is -best to keep your own secrets. No doubt they fidgeted only about -as usual, but it didn't seem so to me. It seemed to me that they -were going to be forever getting down to their regular snoring. -As the time dragged on I got nervously afraid we shouldn't have -enough of it left for our needs; so I made several premature -attempts, and merely delayed things by it; for I couldn't seem -to touch a padlock, there in the dark, without starting a rattle -out of it which interrupted somebody's sleep and made him turn -over and wake some more of the gang. - -But finally I did get my last iron off, and was a free man once -more. I took a good breath of relief, and reached for the king's -irons. Too late! in comes the master, with a light in one hand -and his heavy walking-staff in the other. I snuggled close among -the wallow of snorers, to conceal as nearly as possible that I was -naked of irons; and I kept a sharp lookout and prepared to spring -for my man the moment he should bend over me. - -But he didn't approach. He stopped, gazed absently toward our -dusky mass a minute, evidently thinking about something else; -then set down his light, moved musingly toward the door, and before -a body could imagine what he was going to do, he was out of the -door and had closed it behind him. - -"Quick!" said the king. "Fetch him back!" - -Of course, it was the thing to do, and I was up and out in a -moment. But, dear me, there were no lamps in those days, and -it was a dark night. But I glimpsed a dim figure a few steps -away. I darted for it, threw myself upon it, and then there was -a state of things and lively! We fought and scuffled and struggled, -and drew a crowd in no time. They took an immense interest in -the fight and encouraged us all they could, and, in fact, couldn't -have been pleasanter or more cordial if it had been their own -fight. Then a tremendous row broke out behind us, and as much -as half of our audience left us, with a rush, to invest some -sympathy in that. Lanterns began to swing in all directions; -it was the watch gathering from far and near. Presently a halberd -fell across my back, as a reminder, and I knew what it meant. -I was in custody. So was my adversary. We were marched off toward -prison, one on each side of the watchman. Here was disaster, -here was a fine scheme gone to sudden destruction! I tried to -imagine what would happen when the master should discover that -it was I who had been fighting him; and what would happen if they -jailed us together in the general apartment for brawlers and petty -law-breakers, as was the custom; and what might-- - -Just then my antagonist turned his face around in my direction, -the freckled light from the watchman's tin lantern fell on it, -and, by George, he was the wrong man! - - - -CHAPTER XXXVII - -AN AWFUL PREDICAMENT - -Sleep? It was impossible. It would naturally have been impossible -in that noisome cavern of a jail, with its mangy crowd of drunken, -quarrelsome, and song-singing rapscallions. But the thing that -made sleep all the more a thing not to be dreamed of, was my -racking impatience to get out of this place and find out the whole -size of what might have happened yonder in the slave-quarters -in consequence of that intolerable miscarriage of mine. - -It was a long night, but the morning got around at last. I made -a full and frank explanation to the court. I said I was a slave, -the property of the great Earl Grip, who had arrived just after -dark at the Tabard inn in the village on the other side of the -water, and had stopped there over night, by compulsion, he being -taken deadly sick with a strange and sudden disorder. I had been -ordered to cross to the city in all haste and bring the best -physician; I was doing my best; naturally I was running with all -my might; the night was dark, I ran against this common person -here, who seized me by the throat and began to pummel me, although -I told him my errand, and implored him, for the sake of the great -earl my master's mortal peril-- - -The common person interrupted and said it was a lie; and was going -to explain how I rushed upon him and attacked him without a word-- - -"Silence, sirrah!" from the court. "Take him hence and give him -a few stripes whereby to teach him how to treat the servant of -a nobleman after a different fashion another time. Go!" - -Then the court begged my pardon, and hoped I would not fail -to tell his lordship it was in no wise the court's fault that this -high-handed thing had happened. I said I would make it all right, -and so took my leave. Took it just in time, too; he was starting -to ask me why I didn't fetch out these facts the moment I was -arrested. I said I would if I had thought of it--which was true ---but that I was so battered by that man that all my wit was knocked -out of me--and so forth and so on, and got myself away, still -mumbling. I didn't wait for breakfast. No grass grew under my -feet. I was soon at the slave quarters. Empty--everybody gone! -That is, everybody except one body--the slave-master's. It lay -there all battered to pulp; and all about were the evidences of -a terrific fight. There was a rude board coffin on a cart at -the door, and workmen, assisted by the police, were thinning a -road through the gaping crowd in order that they might bring it in. - -I picked out a man humble enough in life to condescend to talk -with one so shabby as I, and got his account of the matter. - -"There were sixteen slaves here. They rose against their master -in the night, and thou seest how it ended." - -"Yes. How did it begin?" - -"There was no witness but the slaves. They said the slave that -was most valuable got free of his bonds and escaped in some strange -way--by magic arts 'twas thought, by reason that he had no key, -and the locks were neither broke nor in any wise injured. When -the master discovered his loss, he was mad with despair, and threw -himself upon his people with his heavy stick, who resisted and -brake his back and in other and divers ways did give him hurts -that brought him swiftly to his end." - -"This is dreadful. It will go hard with the slaves, no doubt, -upon the trial." - -"Marry, the trial is over." - -"Over!" - -"Would they be a week, think you--and the matter so simple? They -were not the half of a quarter of an hour at it." - -"Why, I don't see how they could determine which were the guilty -ones in so short a time." - -"_Which_ ones? Indeed, they considered not particulars like to that. -They condemned them in a body. Wit ye not the law?--which men -say the Romans left behind them here when they went--that if one -slave killeth his master all the slaves of that man must die for it." - -"True. I had forgotten. And when will these die?" - -"Belike within a four and twenty hours; albeit some say they will -wait a pair of days more, if peradventure they may find the missing -one meantime." - -The missing one! It made me feel uncomfortable. - -"Is it likely they will find him?" - -"Before the day is spent--yes. They seek him everywhere. They -stand at the gates of the town, with certain of the slaves who -will discover him to them if he cometh, and none can pass out -but he will be first examined." - -"Might one see the place where the rest are confined?" - -"The outside of it--yes. The inside of it--but ye will not want -to see that." - -I took the address of that prison for future reference and then -sauntered off. At the first second-hand clothing shop I came to, -up a back street, I got a rough rig suitable for a common seaman -who might be going on a cold voyage, and bound up my face with -a liberal bandage, saying I had a toothache. This concealed my -worst bruises. It was a transformation. I no longer resembled my -former self. Then I struck out for that wire, found it and -followed it to its den. It was a little room over a butcher's -shop--which meant that business wasn't very brisk in the telegraphic -line. The young chap in charge was drowsing at his table. I locked -the door and put the vast key in my bosom. This alarmed the young -fellow, and he was going to make a noise; but I said: - -"Save your wind; if you open your mouth you are dead, sure. Tackle -your instrument. Lively, now! Call Camelot." - -"This doth amaze me! How should such as you know aught of such -matters as--" - -"Call Camelot! I am a desperate man. Call Camelot, or get away -from the instrument and I will do it myself." - -"What--you?" - -"Yes--certainly. Stop gabbling. Call the palace." - -He made the call. - -"Now, then, call Clarence." - -"Clarence _who_?" - -"Never mind Clarence who. Say you want Clarence; you'll get -an answer." - -He did so. We waited five nerve-straining minutes--ten minutes ---how long it did seem!--and then came a click that was as familiar -to me as a human voice; for Clarence had been my own pupil. - -"Now, my lad, vacate! They would have known _my_ touch, maybe, -and so your call was surest; but I'm all right now." - -He vacated the place and cocked his ear to listen--but it didn't -win. I used a cipher. I didn't waste any time in sociabilities -with Clarence, but squared away for business, straight-off--thus: - -"The king is here and in danger. We were captured and brought -here as slaves. We should not be able to prove our identity ---and the fact is, I am not in a position to try. Send a telegram -for the palace here which will carry conviction with it." - -His answer came straight back: - -"They don't know anything about the telegraph; they haven't had -any experience yet, the line to London is so new. Better not -venture that. They might hang you. Think up something else." - -Might hang us! Little he knew how closely he was crowding the -facts. I couldn't think up anything for the moment. Then an idea -struck me, and I started it along: - -"Send five hundred picked knights with Launcelot in the lead; and -send them on the jump. Let them enter by the southwest gate, and -look out for the man with a white cloth around his right arm." - -The answer was prompt: - -"They shall start in half an hour." - -"All right, Clarence; now tell this lad here that I'm a friend -of yours and a dead-head; and that he must be discreet and say -nothing about this visit of mine." - -The instrument began to talk to the youth and I hurried away. -I fell to ciphering. In half an hour it would be nine o'clock. -Knights and horses in heavy armor couldn't travel very fast. -These would make the best time they could, and now that the ground -was in good condition, and no snow or mud, they would probably -make a seven-mile gait; they would have to change horses a couple -of times; they would arrive about six, or a little after; it would -still be plenty light enough; they would see the white cloth which -I should tie around my right arm, and I would take command. We -would surround that prison and have the king out in no time. -It would be showy and picturesque enough, all things considered, -though I would have preferred noonday, on account of the more -theatrical aspect the thing would have. - -Now, then, in order to increase the strings to my bow, I thought -I would look up some of those people whom I had formerly recognized, -and make myself known. That would help us out of our scrape, -without the knights. But I must proceed cautiously, for it was -a risky business. I must get into sumptuous raiment, and it -wouldn't do to run and jump into it. No, I must work up to it -by degrees, buying suit after suit of clothes, in shops wide apart, -and getting a little finer article with each change, until I should -finally reach silk and velvet, and be ready for my project. So -I started. - -But the scheme fell through like scat! The first corner I turned, -I came plump upon one of our slaves, snooping around with a watchman. -I coughed at the moment, and he gave me a sudden look that bit right -into my marrow. I judge he thought he had heard that cough before. -I turned immediately into a shop and worked along down the counter, -pricing things and watching out of the corner of my eye. Those -people had stopped, and were talking together and looking in at -the door. I made up my mind to get out the back way, if there -was a back way, and I asked the shopwoman if I could step out -there and look for the escaped slave, who was believed to be in -hiding back there somewhere, and said I was an officer in disguise, -and my pard was yonder at the door with one of the murderers in -charge, and would she be good enough to step there and tell him -he needn't wait, but had better go at once to the further end of -the back alley and be ready to head him off when I rousted him out. - -She was blazing with eagerness to see one of those already celebrated -murderers, and she started on the errand at once. I slipped out -the back way, locked the door behind me, put the key in my pocket -and started off, chuckling to myself and comfortable. - -Well, I had gone and spoiled it again, made another mistake. -A double one, in fact. There were plenty of ways to get rid of -that officer by some simple and plausible device, but no, I must -pick out a picturesque one; it is the crying defect of my character. -And then, I had ordered my procedure upon what the officer, being -human, would _naturally_ do; whereas when you are least expecting it, -a man will now and then go and do the very thing which it's _not_ -natural for him to do. The natural thing for the officer to do, -in this case, was to follow straight on my heels; he would find -a stout oaken door, securely locked, between him and me; before -he could break it down, I should be far away and engaged in slipping -into a succession of baffling disguises which would soon get me -into a sort of raiment which was a surer protection from meddling -law-dogs in Britain than any amount of mere innocence and purity -of character. But instead of doing the natural thing, the officer -took me at my word, and followed my instructions. And so, as I -came trotting out of that cul de sac, full of satisfaction with my -own cleverness, he turned the corner and I walked right into his -handcuffs. If I had known it was a cul de sac--however, there -isn't any excusing a blunder like that, let it go. Charge it up -to profit and loss. - -Of course, I was indignant, and swore I had just come ashore from -a long voyage, and all that sort of thing--just to see, you know, -if it would deceive that slave. But it didn't. He knew me. Then -I reproached him for betraying me. He was more surprised than -hurt. He stretched his eyes wide, and said: - -"What, wouldst have me let thee, of all men, escape and not hang -with us, when thou'rt the very _cause_ of our hanging? Go to!" - -"Go to" was their way of saying "I should smile!" or "I like that!" -Queer talkers, those people. - -Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, -and so I dropped the matter. When you can't cure a disaster by -argument, what is the use to argue? It isn't my way. So I only said: - -"You're not going to be hanged. None of us are." - -Both men laughed, and the slave said: - -"Ye have not ranked as a fool--before. You might better keep -your reputation, seeing the strain would not be for long." - -"It will stand it, I reckon. Before to-morrow we shall be out -of prison, and free to go where we will, besides." - -The witty officer lifted at his left ear with his thumb, made -a rasping noise in his throat, and said: - -"Out of prison--yes--ye say true. And free likewise to go where -ye will, so ye wander not out of his grace the Devil's sultry realm." - -I kept my temper, and said, indifferently: - -"Now I suppose you really think we are going to hang within -a day or two." - -"I thought it not many minutes ago, for so the thing was decided -and proclaimed." - -"Ah, then you've changed your mind, is that it?" - -"Even that. I only _thought_, then; I _know_, now." - -I felt sarcastical, so I said: - -"Oh, sapient servant of the law, condescend to tell us, then, -what you _know_." - -"That ye will all be hanged _to-day_, at mid-afternoon! Oho! that -shot hit home! Lean upon me." - -The fact is I did need to lean upon somebody. My knights couldn't -arrive in time. They would be as much as three hours too late. -Nothing in the world could save the King of England; nor me, which -was more important. More important, not merely to me, but to -the nation--the only nation on earth standing ready to blossom -into civilization. I was sick. I said no more, there wasn't -anything to say. I knew what the man meant; that if the missing -slave was found, the postponement would be revoked, the execution -take place to-day. Well, the missing slave was found. - - - -CHAPTER XXXVIII - -SIR LAUNCELOT AND KNIGHTS TO THE RESCUE - -Nearing four in the afternoon. The scene was just outside the -walls of London. A cool, comfortable, superb day, with a brilliant -sun; the kind of day to make one want to live, not die. The -multitude was prodigious and far-reaching; and yet we fifteen -poor devils hadn't a friend in it. There was something painful -in that thought, look at it how you might. There we sat, on our -tall scaffold, the butt of the hate and mockery of all those -enemies. We were being made a holiday spectacle. They had built -a sort of grand stand for the nobility and gentry, and these were -there in full force, with their ladies. We recognized a good -many of them. - -The crowd got a brief and unexpected dash of diversion out of -the king. The moment we were freed of our bonds he sprang up, -in his fantastic rags, with face bruised out of all recognition, and -proclaimed himself Arthur, King of Britain, and denounced the -awful penalties of treason upon every soul there present if hair -of his sacred head were touched. It startled and surprised him -to hear them break into a vast roar of laughter. It wounded his -dignity, and he locked himself up in silence. Then, although -the crowd begged him to go on, and tried to provoke him to it -by catcalls, jeers, and shouts of: - -"Let him speak! The king! The king! his humble subjects hunger -and thirst for words of wisdom out of the mouth of their master -his Serene and Sacred Raggedness!" - -But it went for nothing. He put on all his majesty and sat under -this rain of contempt and insult unmoved. He certainly was great -in his way. Absently, I had taken off my white bandage and wound -it about my right arm. When the crowd noticed this, they began -upon me. They said: - -"Doubtless this sailor-man is his minister--observe his costly -badge of office!" - -I let them go on until they got tired, and then I said: - -"Yes, I am his minister, The Boss; and to-morrow you will hear -that from Camelot which--" - -I got no further. They drowned me out with joyous derision. But -presently there was silence; for the sheriffs of London, in their -official robes, with their subordinates, began to make a stir which -indicated that business was about to begin. In the hush which -followed, our crime was recited, the death warrant read, then -everybody uncovered while a priest uttered a prayer. - -Then a slave was blindfolded; the hangman unslung his rope. There -lay the smooth road below us, we upon one side of it, the banked -multitude wailing its other side--a good clear road, and kept free -by the police--how good it would be to see my five hundred horsemen -come tearing down it! But no, it was out of the possibilities. -I followed its receding thread out into the distance--not a horseman -on it, or sign of one. - -There was a jerk, and the slave hung dangling; dangling and hideously -squirming, for his limbs were not tied. - -A second rope was unslung, in a moment another slave was dangling. - -In a minute a third slave was struggling in the air. It was -dreadful. I turned away my head a moment, and when I turned back -I missed the king! They were blindfolding him! I was paralyzed; -I couldn't move, I was choking, my tongue was petrified. They -finished blindfolding him, they led him under the rope. I couldn't -shake off that clinging impotence. But when I saw them put the -noose around his neck, then everything let go in me and I made -a spring to the rescue--and as I made it I shot one more glance -abroad--by George! here they came, a-tilting!--five hundred mailed -and belted knights on bicycles! - -The grandest sight that ever was seen. Lord, how the plumes -streamed, how the sun flamed and flashed from the endless procession -of webby wheels! - -I waved my right arm as Launcelot swept in--he recognized my rag ---I tore away noose and bandage, and shouted: - -"On your knees, every rascal of you, and salute the king! Who -fails shall sup in hell to-night!" - -I always use that high style when I'm climaxing an effect. Well, -it was noble to see Launcelot and the boys swarm up onto that -scaffold and heave sheriffs and such overboard. And it was fine -to see that astonished multitude go down on their knees and beg -their lives of the king they had just been deriding and insulting. -And as he stood apart there, receiving this homage in rags, -I thought to myself, well, really there is something peculiarly -grand about the gait and bearing of a king, after all. - -I was immensely satisfied. Take the whole situation all around, -it was one of the gaudiest effects I ever instigated. - -And presently up comes Clarence, his own self! and winks, and -says, very modernly: - -"Good deal of a surprise, wasn't it? I knew you'd like it. I've -had the boys practicing this long time, privately; and just hungry -for a chance to show off." - - - -CHAPTER XXXIX - -THE YANKEE'S FIGHT WITH THE KNIGHTS - -Home again, at Camelot. A morning or two later I found the paper, -damp from the press, by my plate at the breakfast table. I turned -to the advertising columns, knowing I should find something of -personal interest to me there. It was this: - - DE PAR LE ROI. - - Know that the great lord and illus- - trious Kni8ht, SIR SAGRAMOR LE - DESIROUS having condescended to - meet the King's Minister, Hank Mor- - gan, the which is surnamed The Boss, - for satisfgction of offence anciently given, - these wilL engage in the lists by - Camelot about the fourth hour of the - morning of the sixteenth day of this - next succeeding month. The battle - will be a l outrance, sith the said offence - was of a deadly sort, admitting of no - comPosition. - - DE PAR LE ROI - - -Clarence's editorial reference to this affair was to this effect: - - It will be observed, by a gl7nce at our - advertising columns, that the commu- - nity is to be favored with a treat of un- - usual interest in the tournament line. - The n ames of the artists are warrant of - good enterTemment. The box-office - will be open at noon of the 13th; ad- - mission 3 cents, reserved seatsh 5; pro- - ceeds to go to the hospital fund The - royal pair and all the Court will be pres- - ent. With these exceptions, and the - press and the clergy, the free list is strict- - ly susPended. Parties are hereby warn- - ed against buying tickets of speculators; - they will not be good at the door. - Everybody knows and likes The Boss, - everybody knows and likes Sir Sag.; - come, let us give the lads a good send- - off. ReMember, the proceeds go to a - great and free charity, and one whose - broad begevolence stretches out its help- - ing hand, warm with the blood of a lov- - ing heart, to all that suffer, regardless of - race, creed, condition or color--the - only charity yet established in the earth - which has no politico-religious stop- - cock on its compassion, but says Here - flows the stream, let ALL come and - drink! Turn out, all hands! fetch along - your dou3hnuts and your gum-drops - and have a good time. Pie for sale on - the grounds, and rocks to crack it with; - and ciRcus-lemonade--three drops of - lime juice to a barrel of water. - - N.B. This is the first tournament - under the new law, whidh allow each - combatant to use any weapon he may pre- - fer. You may want to make a note of that. - -Up to the day set, there was no talk in all Britain of anything -but this combat. All other topics sank into insignificance and -passed out of men's thoughts and interest. It was not because -a tournament was a great matter, it was not because Sir Sagramor -had found the Holy Grail, for he had not, but had failed; it was -not because the second (official) personage in the kingdom was -one of the duellists; no, all these features were commonplace. -Yet there was abundant reason for the extraordinary interest which -this coming fight was creating. It was born of the fact that all -the nation knew that this was not to be a duel between mere men, -so to speak, but a duel between two mighty magicians; a duel not -of muscle but of mind, not of human skill but of superhuman art -and craft; a final struggle for supremacy between the two master -enchanters of the age. It was realized that the most prodigious -achievements of the most renowned knights could not be worthy -of comparison with a spectacle like this; they could be but child's -play, contrasted with this mysterious and awful battle of the gods. -Yes, all the world knew it was going to be in reality a duel -between Merlin and me, a measuring of his magic powers against -mine. It was known that Merlin had been busy whole days and nights -together, imbuing Sir Sagramor's arms and armor with supernal -powers of offense and defense, and that he had procured for him -from the spirits of the air a fleecy veil which would render the -wearer invisible to his antagonist while still visible to other -men. Against Sir Sagramor, so weaponed and protected, a thousand -knights could accomplish nothing; against him no known enchantments -could prevail. These facts were sure; regarding them there was -no doubt, no reason for doubt. There was but one question: might -there be still other enchantments, _unknown_ to Merlin, which could -render Sir Sagramor's veil transparent to me, and make his enchanted -mail vulnerable to my weapons? This was the one thing to be -decided in the lists. Until then the world must remain in suspense. - -So the world thought there was a vast matter at stake here, and -the world was right, but it was not the one they had in their -minds. No, a far vaster one was upon the cast of this die: -_the life of knight-errantry_. I was a champion, it was true, but -not the champion of the frivolous black arts, I was the champion -of hard unsentimental common-sense and reason. I was entering -the lists to either destroy knight-errantry or be its victim. - -Vast as the show-grounds were, there were no vacant spaces in them -outside of the lists, at ten o'clock on the morning of the 16th. -The mammoth grand-stand was clothed in flags, streamers, and rich -tapestries, and packed with several acres of small-fry tributary -kings, their suites, and the British aristocracy; with our own -royal gang in the chief place, and each and every individual -a flashing prism of gaudy silks and velvets--well, I never saw -anything to begin with it but a fight between an Upper Mississippi -sunset and the aurora borealis. The huge camp of beflagged and -gay-colored tents at one end of the lists, with a stiff-standing -sentinel at every door and a shining shield hanging by him for -challenge, was another fine sight. You see, every knight was -there who had any ambition or any caste feeling; for my feeling -toward their order was not much of a secret, and so here was their -chance. If I won my fight with Sir Sagramor, others would have -the right to call me out as long as I might be willing to respond. - -Down at our end there were but two tents; one for me, and another -for my servants. At the appointed hour the king made a sign, and -the heralds, in their tabards, appeared and made proclamation, -naming the combatants and stating the cause of quarrel. There -was a pause, then a ringing bugle-blast, which was the signal for -us to come forth. All the multitude caught their breath, and -an eager curiosity flashed into every face. - -Out from his tent rode great Sir Sagramor, an imposing tower -of iron, stately and rigid, his huge spear standing upright in its -socket and grasped in his strong hand, his grand horse's face and -breast cased in steel, his body clothed in rich trappings that -almost dragged the ground--oh, a most noble picture. A great -shout went up, of welcome and admiration. - -And then out I came. But I didn't get any shout. There was -a wondering and eloquent silence for a moment, then a great wave -of laughter began to sweep along that human sea, but a warning -bugle-blast cut its career short. I was in the simplest and -comfortablest of gymnast costumes--flesh-colored tights from neck -to heel, with blue silk puffings about my loins, and bareheaded. -My horse was not above medium size, but he was alert, slender-limbed, -muscled with watchsprings, and just a greyhound to go. He was -a beauty, glossy as silk, and naked as he was when he was born, -except for bridle and ranger-saddle. - -The iron tower and the gorgeous bedquilt came cumbrously but -gracefully pirouetting down the lists, and we tripped lightly up -to meet them. We halted; the tower saluted, I responded; then -we wheeled and rode side by side to the grand-stand and faced -our king and queen, to whom we made obeisance. The queen exclaimed: - -"Alack, Sir Boss, wilt fight naked, and without lance or sword or--" - -But the king checked her and made her understand, with a polite -phrase or two, that this was none of her business. The bugles -rang again; and we separated and rode to the ends of the lists, -and took position. Now old Merlin stepped into view and cast -a dainty web of gossamer threads over Sir Sagramor which turned -him into Hamlet's ghost; the king made a sign, the bugles blew, -Sir Sagramor laid his great lance in rest, and the next moment here -he came thundering down the course with his veil flying out behind, -and I went whistling through the air like an arrow to meet him ---cocking my ear the while, as if noting the invisible knight's -position and progress by hearing, not sight. A chorus of encouraging -shouts burst out for him, and one brave voice flung out a heartening -word for me--said: - -"Go it, slim Jim!" - -It was an even bet that Clarence had procured that favor for me ---and furnished the language, too. When that formidable lance-point -was within a yard and a half of my breast I twitched my horse aside -without an effort, and the big knight swept by, scoring a blank. -I got plenty of applause that time. We turned, braced up, and -down we came again. Another blank for the knight, a roar of -applause for me. This same thing was repeated once more; and -it fetched such a whirlwind of applause that Sir Sagramor lost his -temper, and at once changed his tactics and set himself the task -of chasing me down. Why, he hadn't any show in the world at that; -it was a game of tag, with all the advantage on my side; I whirled -out of his path with ease whenever I chose, and once I slapped him -on the back as I went to the rear. Finally I took the chase into -my own hands; and after that, turn, or twist, or do what he would, -he was never able to get behind me again; he found himself always -in front at the end of his maneuver. So he gave up that business -and retired to his end of the lists. His temper was clear gone now, -and he forgot himself and flung an insult at me which disposed -of mine. I slipped my lasso from the horn of my saddle, and -grasped the coil in my right hand. This time you should have seen -him come!--it was a business trip, sure; by his gait there was -blood in his eye. I was sitting my horse at ease, and swinging -the great loop of my lasso in wide circles about my head; the -moment he was under way, I started for him; when the space between -us had narrowed to forty feet, I sent the snaky spirals of the rope -a-cleaving through the air, then darted aside and faced about and -brought my trained animal to a halt with all his feet braced under -him for a surge. The next moment the rope sprang taut and yanked -Sir Sagramor out of the saddle! Great Scott, but there was -a sensation! - -Unquestionably, the popular thing in this world is novelty. These -people had never seen anything of that cowboy business before, -and it carried them clear off their feet with delight. From all -around and everywhere, the shout went up: - -"Encore! encore!" - -I wondered where they got the word, but there was no time to cipher -on philological matters, because the whole knight-errantry hive -was just humming now, and my prospect for trade couldn't have -been better. The moment my lasso was released and Sir Sagramor -had been assisted to his tent, I hauled in the slack, took my -station and began to swing my loop around my head again. I was -sure to have use for it as soon as they could elect a successor -for Sir Sagramor, and that couldn't take long where there were -so many hungry candidates. Indeed, they elected one straight off ---Sir Hervis de Revel. - -_Bzz_! Here he came, like a house afire; I dodged: he passed like -a flash, with my horse-hair coils settling around his neck; -a second or so later, _fst_! his saddle was empty. - -I got another encore; and another, and another, and still another. -When I had snaked five men out, things began to look serious to -the ironclads, and they stopped and consulted together. As a -result, they decided that it was time to waive etiquette and send -their greatest and best against me. To the astonishment of that -little world, I lassoed Sir Lamorak de Galis, and after him -Sir Galahad. So you see there was simply nothing to be done now, -but play their right bower--bring out the superbest of the superb, -the mightiest of the mighty, the great Sir Launcelot himself! - -A proud moment for me? I should think so. Yonder was Arthur, -King of Britain; yonder was Guenever; yes, and whole tribes of -little provincial kings and kinglets; and in the tented camp yonder, -renowned knights from many lands; and likewise the selectest body -known to chivalry, the Knights of the Table Round, the most -illustrious in Christendom; and biggest fact of all, the very sun -of their shining system was yonder couching his lance, the focal -point of forty thousand adoring eyes; and all by myself, here was -I laying for him. Across my mind flitted the dear image of a -certain hello-girl of West Hartford, and I wished she could see -me now. In that moment, down came the Invincible, with the rush -of a whirlwind--the courtly world rose to its feet and bent forward ---the fateful coils went circling through the air, and before you -could wink I was towing Sir Launcelot across the field on his -back, and kissing my hand to the storm of waving kerchiefs and -the thunder-crash of applause that greeted me! - -Said I to myself, as I coiled my lariat and hung it on my saddle-horn, -and sat there drunk with glory, "The victory is perfect--no other -will venture against me--knight-errantry is dead." Now imagine my -astonishment--and everybody else's, too--to hear the peculiar -bugle-call which announces that another competitor is about to -enter the lists! There was a mystery here; I couldn't account for -this thing. Next, I noticed Merlin gliding away from me; and then -I noticed that my lasso was gone! The old sleight-of-hand expert -had stolen it, sure, and slipped it under his robe. - -The bugle blew again. I looked, and down came Sagramor riding -again, with his dust brushed off and his veil nicely re-arranged. -I trotted up to meet him, and pretended to find him by the sound -of his horse's hoofs. He said: - -"Thou'rt quick of ear, but it will not save thee from this!" and -he touched the hilt of his great sword. "An ye are not able to see -it, because of the influence of the veil, know that it is no cumbrous -lance, but a sword--and I ween ye will not be able to avoid it." - -His visor was up; there was death in his smile. I should never -be able to dodge his sword, that was plain. Somebody was going -to die this time. If he got the drop on me, I could name the -corpse. We rode forward together, and saluted the royalties. -This time the king was disturbed. He said: - -"Where is thy strange weapon?" - -"It is stolen, sire." - -"Hast another at hand?" - -"No, sire, I brought only the one." - -Then Merlin mixed in: - -"He brought but the one because there was but the one to bring. -There exists none other but that one. It belongeth to the king -of the Demons of the Sea. This man is a pretender, and ignorant, -else he had known that that weapon can be used in but eight bouts -only, and then it vanisheth away to its home under the sea." - -"Then is he weaponless," said the king. "Sir Sagramore, ye will -grant him leave to borrow." - -"And I will lend!" said Sir Launcelot, limping up. "He is as -brave a knight of his hands as any that be on live, and he shall -have mine." - -He put his hand on his sword to draw it, but Sir Sagramor said: - -"Stay, it may not be. He shall fight with his own weapons; it -was his privilege to choose them and bring them. If he has erred, -on his head be it." - -"Knight!" said the king. "Thou'rt overwrought with passion; it -disorders thy mind. Wouldst kill a naked man?" - -"An he do it, he shall answer it to me," said Sir Launcelot. - -"I will answer it to any he that desireth!" retorted Sir Sagramor hotly. - -Merlin broke in, rubbing his hands and smiling his lowdownest -smile of malicious gratification: - -"'Tis well said, right well said! And 'tis enough of parleying, -let my lord the king deliver the battle signal." - -The king had to yield. The bugle made proclamation, and we turned -apart and rode to our stations. There we stood, a hundred yards -apart, facing each other, rigid and motionless, like horsed statues. -And so we remained, in a soundless hush, as much as a full minute, -everybody gazing, nobody stirring. It seemed as if the king could -not take heart to give the signal. But at last he lifted his hand, -the clear note of the bugle followed, Sir Sagramor's long blade -described a flashing curve in the air, and it was superb to see him -come. I sat still. On he came. I did not move. People got so -excited that they shouted to me: - -"Fly, fly! Save thyself! This is murther!" - -I never budged so much as an inch till that thundering apparition -had got within fifteen paces of me; then I snatched a dragoon -revolver out of my holster, there was a flash and a roar, and -the revolver was back in the holster before anybody could tell -what had happened. - -Here was a riderless horse plunging by, and yonder lay Sir Sagramor, -stone dead. - -The people that ran to him were stricken dumb to find that the life -was actually gone out of the man and no reason for it visible, -no hurt upon his body, nothing like a wound. There was a hole -through the breast of his chain-mail, but they attached no importance -to a little thing like that; and as a bullet wound there produces -but little blood, none came in sight because of the clothing and -swaddlings under the armor. The body was dragged over to let -the king and the swells look down upon it. They were stupefied -with astonishment naturally. I was requested to come and explain -the miracle. But I remained in my tracks, like a statue, and said: - -"If it is a command, I will come, but my lord the king knows that -I am where the laws of combat require me to remain while any desire -to come against me." - -I waited. Nobody challenged. Then I said: - -"If there are any who doubt that this field is well and fairly won, -I do not wait for them to challenge me, I challenge them." - -"It is a gallant offer," said the king, "and well beseems you. -Whom will you name first?" - -"I name none, I challenge all! Here I stand, and dare the chivalry -of England to come against me--not by individuals, but in mass!" - -"What!" shouted a score of knights. - -"You have heard the challenge. Take it, or I proclaim you recreant -knights and vanquished, every one!" - -It was a "bluff" you know. At such a time it is sound judgment -to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what -it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to "call," -and you rake in the chips. But just this once--well, things looked -squally! In just no time, five hundred knights were scrambling -into their saddles, and before you could wink a widely scattering -drove were under way and clattering down upon me. I snatched -both revolvers from the holsters and began to measure distances -and calculate chances. - -Bang! One saddle empty. Bang! another one. Bang--bang, and -I bagged two. Well, it was nip and tuck with us, and I knew it. -If I spent the eleventh shot without convincing these people, -the twelfth man would kill me, sure. And so I never did feel -so happy as I did when my ninth downed its man and I detected -the wavering in the crowd which is premonitory of panic. An instant -lost now could knock out my last chance. But I didn't lose it. -I raised both revolvers and pointed them--the halted host stood -their ground just about one good square moment, then broke and fled. - -The day was mine. Knight-errantry was a doomed institution. The -march of civilization was begun. How did I feel? Ah, you never -could imagine it. - -And Brer Merlin? His stock was flat again. Somehow, every time -the magic of fol-de-rol tried conclusions with the magic of science, -the magic of fol-de-rol got left. - - - -CHAPTER XL - -THREE YEARS LATER - -When I broke the back of knight-errantry that time, I no longer -felt obliged to work in secret. So, the very next day I exposed -my hidden schools, my mines, and my vast system of clandestine -factories and workshops to an astonished world. That is to say, -I exposed the nineteenth century to the inspection of the sixth. - -Well, it is always a good plan to follow up an advantage promptly. -The knights were temporarily down, but if I would keep them so -I must just simply paralyze them--nothing short of that would -answer. You see, I was "bluffing" that last time in the field; -it would be natural for them to work around to that conclusion, -if I gave them a chance. So I must not give them time; and I didn't. - -I renewed my challenge, engraved it on brass, posted it up where -any priest could read it to them, and also kept it standing in -the advertising columns of the paper. - -I not only renewed it, but added to its proportions. I said, -name the day, and I would take fifty assistants and stand up -_against the massed chivalry of the whole earth and destroy it_. - -I was not bluffing this time. I meant what I said; I could do -what I promised. There wasn't any way to misunderstand the language -of that challenge. Even the dullest of the chivalry perceived -that this was a plain case of "put up, or shut up." They were -wise and did the latter. In all the next three years they gave -me no trouble worth mentioning. - -Consider the three years sped. Now look around on England. A happy -and prosperous country, and strangely altered. Schools everywhere, -and several colleges; a number of pretty good newspapers. Even -authorship was taking a start; Sir Dinadan the Humorist was first -in the field, with a volume of gray-headed jokes which I had been -familiar with during thirteen centuries. If he had left out that -old rancid one about the lecturer I wouldn't have said anything; -but I couldn't stand that one. I suppressed the book and hanged -the author. - -Slavery was dead and gone; all men were equal before the law; -taxation had been equalized. The telegraph, the telephone, the -phonograph, the typewriter, the sewing-machine, and all the thousand -willing and handy servants of steam and electricity were working -their way into favor. We had a steamboat or two on the Thames, -we had steam warships, and the beginnings of a steam commercial -marine; I was getting ready to send out an expedition to discover -America. - -We were building several lines of railway, and our line from -Camelot to London was already finished and in operation. I was -shrewd enough to make all offices connected with the passenger -service places of high and distinguished honor. My idea was -to attract the chivalry and nobility, and make them useful and keep -them out of mischief. The plan worked very well, the competition -for the places was hot. The conductor of the 4.33 express was -a duke; there wasn't a passenger conductor on the line below -the degree of earl. They were good men, every one, but they had -two defects which I couldn't cure, and so had to wink at: they -wouldn't lay aside their armor, and they would "knock down" fare ---I mean rob the company. - -There was hardly a knight in all the land who wasn't in some useful -employment. They were going from end to end of the country in all -manner of useful missionary capacities; their penchant for wandering, -and their experience in it, made them altogether the most effective -spreaders of civilization we had. They went clothed in steel and -equipped with sword and lance and battle-axe, and if they couldn't -persuade a person to try a sewing-machine on the installment plan, -or a melodeon, or a barbed-wire fence, or a prohibition journal, -or any of the other thousand and one things they canvassed for, -they removed him and passed on. - -I was very happy. Things were working steadily toward a secretly -longed-for point. You see, I had two schemes in my head which -were the vastest of all my projects. The one was to overthrow the -Catholic Church and set up the Protestant faith on its ruins ---not as an Established Church, but a go-as-you-please one; and -the other project was to get a decree issued by and by, commanding -that upon Arthur's death unlimited suffrage should be introduced, -and given to men and women alike--at any rate to all men, wise -or unwise, and to all mothers who at middle age should be found -to know nearly as much as their sons at twenty-one. Arthur was -good for thirty years yet, he being about my own age--that is -to say, forty--and I believed that in that time I could easily -have the active part of the population of that day ready and eager -for an event which should be the first of its kind in the history -of the world--a rounded and complete governmental revolution -without bloodshed. The result to be a republic. Well, I may -as well confess, though I do feel ashamed when I think of it: -I was beginning to have a base hankering to be its first president -myself. Yes, there was more or less human nature in me; I found -that out. - -Clarence was with me as concerned the revolution, but in a modified -way. His idea was a republic, without privileged orders, but with -a hereditary royal family at the head of it instead of an elective -chief magistrate. He believed that no nation that had ever known -the joy of worshiping a royal family could ever be robbed of it -and not fade away and die of melancholy. I urged that kings were -dangerous. He said, then have cats. He was sure that a royal -family of cats would answer every purpose. They would be as useful -as any other royal family, they would know as much, they would -have the same virtues and the same treacheries, the same disposition -to get up shindies with other royal cats, they would be laughably -vain and absurd and never know it, they would be wholly inexpensive; -finally, they would have as sound a divine right as any other -royal house, and "Tom VII, or Tom XI, or Tom XIV by the grace -of God King," would sound as well as it would when applied to -the ordinary royal tomcat with tights on. "And as a rule," said -he, in his neat modern English, "the character of these cats would -be considerably above the character of the average king, and this -would be an immense moral advantage to the nation, for the reason -that a nation always models its morals after its monarch's. The -worship of royalty being founded in unreason, these graceful and -harmless cats would easily become as sacred as any other royalties, -and indeed more so, because it would presently be noticed that -they hanged nobody, beheaded nobody, imprisoned nobody, inflicted -no cruelties or injustices of any sort, and so must be worthy of -a deeper love and reverence than the customary human king, and -would certainly get it. The eyes of the whole harried world would -soon be fixed upon this humane and gentle system, and royal butchers -would presently begin to disappear; their subjects would fill -the vacancies with catlings from our own royal house; we should -become a factory; we should supply the thrones of the world; within -forty years all Europe would be governed by cats, and we should -furnish the cats. The reign of universal peace would begin then, -to end no more forever.... Me-e-e-yow-ow-ow-ow--fzt!--wow!" - -Hang him, I supposed he was in earnest, and was beginning to be -persuaded by him, until he exploded that cat-howl and startled me -almost out of my clothes. But he never could be in earnest. He -didn't know what it was. He had pictured a distinct and perfectly -rational and feasible improvement upon constitutional monarchy, -but he was too feather-headed to know it, or care anything about -it, either. I was going to give him a scolding, but Sandy came -flying in at that moment, wild with terror, and so choked with sobs -that for a minute she could not get her voice. I ran and took her -in my arms, and lavished caresses upon her and said, beseechingly: - -"Speak, darling, speak! What is it?" - -Her head fell limp upon my bosom, and she gasped, almost inaudibly: - -"HELLO-CENTRAL!" - -"Quick!" I shouted to Clarence; "telephone the king's homeopath -to come!" - -In two minutes I was kneeling by the child's crib, and Sandy was -dispatching servants here, there, and everywhere, all over the -palace. I took in the situation almost at a glance--membranous -croup! I bent down and whispered: - -"Wake up, sweetheart! Hello-Central." - -She opened her soft eyes languidly, and made out to say: - -"Papa." - -That was a comfort. She was far from dead yet. I sent for -preparations of sulphur, I rousted out the croup-kettle myself; -for I don't sit down and wait for doctors when Sandy or the child -is sick. I knew how to nurse both of them, and had had experience. -This little chap had lived in my arms a good part of its small life, -and often I could soothe away its troubles and get it to laugh -through the tear-dews on its eye-lashes when even its mother couldn't. - -Sir Launcelot, in his richest armor, came striding along the great -hall now on his way to the stock-board; he was president of the -stock-board, and occupied the Siege Perilous, which he had bought -of Sir Galahad; for the stock-board consisted of the Knights of -the Round Table, and they used the Round Table for business purposes -now. Seats at it were worth--well, you would never believe the -figure, so it is no use to state it. Sir Launcelot was a bear, and -he had put up a corner in one of the new lines, and was just getting -ready to squeeze the shorts to-day; but what of that? He was -the same old Launcelot, and when he glanced in as he was passing -the door and found out that his pet was sick, that was enough -for him; bulls and bears might fight it out their own way for all -him, he would come right in here and stand by little Hello-Central -for all he was worth. And that was what he did. He shied his -helmet into the corner, and in half a minute he had a new wick -in the alcohol lamp and was firing up on the croup-kettle. By this -time Sandy had built a blanket canopy over the crib, and everything -was ready. - -Sir Launcelot got up steam, he and I loaded up the kettle with -unslaked lime and carbolic acid, with a touch of lactic acid added -thereto, then filled the thing up with water and inserted the -steam-spout under the canopy. Everything was ship-shape now, -and we sat down on either side of the crib to stand our watch. -Sandy was so grateful and so comforted that she charged a couple -of church-wardens with willow-bark and sumach-tobacco for us, -and told us to smoke as much as we pleased, it couldn't get under -the canopy, and she was used to smoke, being the first lady in the -land who had ever seen a cloud blown. Well, there couldn't be -a more contented or comfortable sight than Sir Launcelot in his -noble armor sitting in gracious serenity at the end of a yard -of snowy church-warden. He was a beautiful man, a lovely man, -and was just intended to make a wife and children happy. But, of -course Guenever--however, it's no use to cry over what's done and -can't be helped. - -Well, he stood watch-and-watch with me, right straight through, -for three days and nights, till the child was out of danger; then -he took her up in his great arms and kissed her, with his plumes -falling about her golden head, then laid her softly in Sandy's -lap again and took his stately way down the vast hall, between -the ranks of admiring men-at-arms and menials, and so disappeared. -And no instinct warned me that I should never look upon him again -in this world! Lord, what a world of heart-break it is. - -The doctors said we must take the child away, if we would coax -her back to health and strength again. And she must have sea-air. -So we took a man-of-war, and a suite of two hundred and sixty -persons, and went cruising about, and after a fortnight of this we -stepped ashore on the French coast, and the doctors thought it -would be a good idea to make something of a stay there. The little -king of that region offered us his hospitalities, and we were glad -to accept. If he had had as many conveniences as he lacked, we -should have been plenty comfortable enough; even as it was, we -made out very well, in his queer old castle, by the help of comforts -and luxuries from the ship. - -At the end of a month I sent the vessel home for fresh supplies, -and for news. We expected her back in three or four days. She -would bring me, along with other news, the result of a certain -experiment which I had been starting. It was a project of mine -to replace the tournament with something which might furnish an -escape for the extra steam of the chivalry, keep those bucks -entertained and out of mischief, and at the same time preserve -the best thing in them, which was their hardy spirit of emulation. -I had had a choice band of them in private training for some time, -and the date was now arriving for their first public effort. - -This experiment was baseball. In order to give the thing vogue -from the start, and place it out of the reach of criticism, I chose -my nines by rank, not capacity. There wasn't a knight in either -team who wasn't a sceptered sovereign. As for material of this -sort, there was a glut of it always around Arthur. You couldn't -throw a brick in any direction and not cripple a king. Of course, -I couldn't get these people to leave off their armor; they wouldn't -do that when they bathed. They consented to differentiate the -armor so that a body could tell one team from the other, but that -was the most they would do. So, one of the teams wore chain-mail -ulsters, and the other wore plate-armor made of my new Bessemer -steel. Their practice in the field was the most fantastic thing I -ever saw. Being ball-proof, they never skipped out of the way, -but stood still and took the result; when a Bessemer was at the bat -and a ball hit him, it would bound a hundred and fifty yards -sometimes. And when a man was running, and threw himself on his -stomach to slide to his base, it was like an iron-clad coming into -port. At first I appointed men of no rank to act as umpires, but -I had to discontinue that. These people were no easier to please -than other nines. The umpire's first decision was usually his -last; they broke him in two with a bat, and his friends toted him -home on a shutter. When it was noticed that no umpire ever survived -a game, umpiring got to be unpopular. So I was obliged to appoint -somebody whose rank and lofty position under the government would -protect him. - -Here are the names of the nines: - - BESSEMERS ULSTERS - - KING ARTHUR. EMPEROR LUCIUS. - KING LOT OF LOTHIAN. KING LOGRIS. - KING OF NORTHGALIS. KING MARHALT OF IRELAND. - KING MARSIL. KING MORGANORE. - KING OF LITTLE BRITAIN. KING MARK OF CORNWALL. - KING LABOR. KING NENTRES OF GARLOT. - KING PELLAM OF LISTENGESE. KING MELIODAS OF LIONES. - KING BAGDEMAGUS. KING OF THE LAKE. - KING TOLLEME LA FEINTES. THE SOWDAN OF SYRIA. - - Umpire--CLARENCE. - -The first public game would certainly draw fifty thousand people; -and for solid fun would be worth going around the world to see. -Everything would be favorable; it was balmy and beautiful spring -weather now, and Nature was all tailored out in her new clothes. - - - -CHAPTER XLI - -THE INTERDICT - -However, my attention was suddenly snatched from such matters; -our child began to lose ground again, and we had to go to sitting -up with her, her case became so serious. We couldn't bear to allow -anybody to help in this service, so we two stood watch-and-watch, -day in and day out. Ah, Sandy, what a right heart she had, how -simple, and genuine, and good she was! She was a flawless wife -and mother; and yet I had married her for no other particular -reasons, except that by the customs of chivalry she was my property -until some knight should win her from me in the field. She had -hunted Britain over for me; had found me at the hanging-bout -outside of London, and had straightway resumed her old place at -my side in the placidest way and as of right. I was a New Englander, -and in my opinion this sort of partnership would compromise her, -sooner or later. She couldn't see how, but I cut argument short -and we had a wedding. - -Now I didn't know I was drawing a prize, yet that was what I did -draw. Within the twelvemonth I became her worshiper; and ours -was the dearest and perfectest comradeship that ever was. People -talk about beautiful friendships between two persons of the same -sex. What is the best of that sort, as compared with the friendship -of man and wife, where the best impulses and highest ideals of -both are the same? There is no place for comparison between -the two friendships; the one is earthly, the other divine. - -In my dreams, along at first, I still wandered thirteen centuries -away, and my unsatisfied spirit went calling and harking all up -and down the unreplying vacancies of a vanished world. Many a -time Sandy heard that imploring cry come from my lips in my sleep. -With a grand magnanimity she saddled that cry of mine upon our -child, conceiving it to be the name of some lost darling of mine. -It touched me to tears, and it also nearly knocked me off my feet, -too, when she smiled up in my face for an earned reward, and played -her quaint and pretty surprise upon me: - -"The name of one who was dear to thee is here preserved, here made -holy, and the music of it will abide alway in our ears. Now -thou'lt kiss me, as knowing the name I have given the child." - -But I didn't know it, all the same. I hadn't an idea in the -world; but it would have been cruel to confess it and spoil her -pretty game; so I never let on, but said: - -"Yes, I know, sweetheart--how dear and good it is of you, too! -But I want to hear these lips of yours, which are also mine, utter -it first--then its music will be perfect." - -Pleased to the marrow, she murmured: - -"HELLO-CENTRAL!" - -I didn't laugh--I am always thankful for that--but the strain -ruptured every cartilage in me, and for weeks afterward I could -hear my bones clack when I walked. She never found out her mistake. -The first time she heard that form of salute used at the telephone -she was surprised, and not pleased; but I told her I had given -order for it: that henceforth and forever the telephone must -always be invoked with that reverent formality, in perpetual honor -and remembrance of my lost friend and her small namesake. This -was not true. But it answered. - -Well, during two weeks and a half we watched by the crib, and in -our deep solicitude we were unconscious of any world outside of -that sick-room. Then our reward came: the center of the universe -turned the corner and began to mend. Grateful? It isn't the term. -There _isn't_ any term for it. You know that yourself, if you've -watched your child through the Valley of the Shadow and seen it -come back to life and sweep night out of the earth with one -all-illuminating smile that you could cover with your hand. - -Why, we were back in this world in one instant! Then we looked -the same startled thought into each other's eyes at the same -moment; more than two weeks gone, and that ship not back yet! - -In another minute I appeared in the presence of my train. They -had been steeped in troubled bodings all this time--their faces -showed it. I called an escort and we galloped five miles to a -hilltop overlooking the sea. Where was my great commerce that -so lately had made these glistening expanses populous and beautiful -with its white-winged flocks? Vanished, every one! Not a sail, -from verge to verge, not a smoke-bank--just a dead and empty -solitude, in place of all that brisk and breezy life. - -I went swiftly back, saying not a word to anybody. I told Sandy -this ghastly news. We could imagine no explanation that would -begin to explain. Had there been an invasion? an earthquake? -a pestilence? Had the nation been swept out of existence? But -guessing was profitless. I must go--at once. I borrowed the king's -navy--a "ship" no bigger than a steam launch--and was soon ready. - -The parting--ah, yes, that was hard. As I was devouring the child -with last kisses, it brisked up and jabbered out its vocabulary! ---the first time in more than two weeks, and it made fools of us -for joy. The darling mispronunciations of childhood!--dear me, -there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it -wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never -visit his bereaved ear again. Well, how good it was to be able -to carry that gracious memory away with me! - -I approached England the next morning, with the wide highway of -salt water all to myself. There were ships in the harbor, at -Dover, but they were naked as to sails, and there was no sign -of life about them. It was Sunday; yet at Canterbury the streets -were empty; strangest of all, there was not even a priest in sight, -and no stroke of a bell fell upon my ear. The mournfulness of -death was everywhere. I couldn't understand it. At last, in -the further edge of that town I saw a small funeral procession ---just a family and a few friends following a coffin--no priest; -a funeral without bell, book, or candle; there was a church there -close at hand, but they passed it by weeping, and did not enter it; -I glanced up at the belfry, and there hung the bell, shrouded in -black, and its tongue tied back. Now I knew! Now I understood -the stupendous calamity that had overtaken England. Invasion? -Invasion is a triviality to it. It was the INTERDICT! - -I asked no questions; I didn't need to ask any. The Church had -struck; the thing for me to do was to get into a disguise, and -go warily. One of my servants gave me a suit of clothes, and -when we were safe beyond the town I put them on, and from that time -I traveled alone; I could not risk the embarrassment of company. - -A miserable journey. A desolate silence everywhere. Even in -London itself. Traffic had ceased; men did not talk or laugh, or -go in groups, or even in couples; they moved aimlessly about, each -man by himself, with his head down, and woe and terror at his heart. -The Tower showed recent war-scars. Verily, much had been happening. - -Of course, I meant to take the train for Camelot. Train! Why, -the station was as vacant as a cavern. I moved on. The journey -to Camelot was a repetition of what I had already seen. The Monday -and the Tuesday differed in no way from the Sunday. I arrived -far in the night. From being the best electric-lighted town in -the kingdom and the most like a recumbent sun of anything you ever -saw, it was become simply a blot--a blot upon darkness--that is -to say, it was darker and solider than the rest of the darkness, -and so you could see it a little better; it made me feel as if -maybe it was symbolical--a sort of sign that the Church was going to -_keep_ the upper hand now, and snuff out all my beautiful civilization -just like that. I found no life stirring in the somber streets. -I groped my way with a heavy heart. The vast castle loomed black -upon the hilltop, not a spark visible about it. The drawbridge -was down, the great gate stood wide, I entered without challenge, -my own heels making the only sound I heard--and it was sepulchral -enough, in those huge vacant courts. - - - -CHAPTER XLII - -WAR! - -I found Clarence alone in his quarters, drowned in melancholy; -and in place of the electric light, he had reinstituted the ancient -rag-lamp, and sat there in a grisly twilight with all curtains -drawn tight. He sprang up and rushed for me eagerly, saying: - -"Oh, it's worth a billion milrays to look upon a live person again!" - -He knew me as easily as if I hadn't been disguised at all. Which -frightened me; one may easily believe that. - -"Quick, now, tell me the meaning of this fearful disaster," I said. -"How did it come about?" - -"Well, if there hadn't been any Queen Guenever, it wouldn't have -come so early; but it would have come, anyway. It would have -come on your own account by and by; by luck, it happened to come -on the queen's." - -"_And_ Sir Launcelot's?" - -"Just so." - -"Give me the details." - -"I reckon you will grant that during some years there has been -only one pair of eyes in these kingdoms that has not been looking -steadily askance at the queen and Sir Launcelot--" - -"Yes, King Arthur's." - -"--and only one heart that was without suspicion--" - -"Yes--the king's; a heart that isn't capable of thinking evil -of a friend." - -"Well, the king might have gone on, still happy and unsuspecting, -to the end of his days, but for one of your modern improvements ---the stock-board. When you left, three miles of the London, -Canterbury and Dover were ready for the rails, and also ready and -ripe for manipulation in the stock-market. It was wildcat, and -everybody knew it. The stock was for sale at a give-away. What -does Sir Launcelot do, but--" - -"Yes, I know; he quietly picked up nearly all of it for a song; -then he bought about twice as much more, deliverable upon call; -and he was about to call when I left." - -"Very well, he did call. The boys couldn't deliver. Oh, he had -them--and he just settled his grip and squeezed them. They were -laughing in their sleeves over their smartness in selling stock -to him at 15 and 16 and along there that wasn't worth 10. Well, -when they had laughed long enough on that side of their mouths, -they rested-up that side by shifting the laugh to the other side. -That was when they compromised with the Invincible at 283!" - -"Good land!" - -"He skinned them alive, and they deserved it--anyway, the whole -kingdom rejoiced. Well, among the flayed were Sir Agravaine and -Sir Mordred, nephews to the king. End of the first act. Act -second, scene first, an apartment in Carlisle castle, where the -court had gone for a few days' hunting. Persons present, the -whole tribe of the king's nephews. Mordred and Agravaine propose -to call the guileless Arthur's attention to Guenever and Sir -Launcelot. Sir Gawaine, Sir Gareth, and Sir Gaheris will have -nothing to do with it. A dispute ensues, with loud talk; in the -midst of it enter the king. Mordred and Agravaine spring their -devastating tale upon him. _Tableau_. A trap is laid for Launcelot, -by the king's command, and Sir Launcelot walks into it. He made -it sufficiently uncomfortable for the ambushed witnesses--to wit, -Mordred, Agravaine, and twelve knights of lesser rank, for he -killed every one of them but Mordred; but of course that couldn't -straighten matters between Launcelot and the king, and didn't." - -"Oh, dear, only one thing could result--I see that. War, and -the knights of the realm divided into a king's party and a -Sir Launcelot's party." - -"Yes--that was the way of it. The king sent the queen to the -stake, proposing to purify her with fire. Launcelot and his -knights rescued her, and in doing it slew certain good old friends -of yours and mine--in fact, some of the best we ever had; to wit, -Sir Belias le Orgulous, Sir Segwarides, Sir Griflet le Fils de Dieu, -Sir Brandiles, Sir Aglovale--" - -"Oh, you tear out my heartstrings." - -"--wait, I'm not done yet--Sir Tor, Sir Gauter, Sir Gillimer--" - -"The very best man in my subordinate nine. What a handy right-fielder -he was!" - -"--Sir Reynold's three brothers, Sir Damus, Sir Priamus, Sir Kay -the Stranger--" - -"My peerless short-stop! I've seen him catch a daisy-cutter in -his teeth. Come, I can't stand this!" - -"--Sir Driant, Sir Lambegus, Sir Herminde, Sir Pertilope, -Sir Perimones, and--whom do you think?" - -"Rush! Go on." - -"Sir Gaheris, and Sir Gareth--both!" - -"Oh, incredible! Their love for Launcelot was indestructible." - -"Well, it was an accident. They were simply onlookers; they were -unarmed, and were merely there to witness the queen's punishment. -Sir Launcelot smote down whoever came in the way of his blind fury, -and he killed these without noticing who they were. Here is an -instantaneous photograph one of our boys got of the battle; it's -for sale on every news-stand. There--the figures nearest the queen -are Sir Launcelot with his sword up, and Sir Gareth gasping his -latest breath. You can catch the agony in the queen's face through -the curling smoke. It's a rattling battle-picture." - -"Indeed, it is. We must take good care of it; its historical value -is incalculable. Go on." - -"Well, the rest of the tale is just war, pure and simple. Launcelot -retreated to his town and castle of Joyous Gard, and gathered -there a great following of knights. The king, with a great host, -went there, and there was desperate fighting during several days, -and, as a result, all the plain around was paved with corpses -and cast-iron. Then the Church patched up a peace between Arthur -and Launcelot and the queen and everybody--everybody but Sir Gawaine. -He was bitter about the slaying of his brothers, Gareth and Gaheris, -and would not be appeased. He notified Launcelot to get him -thence, and make swift preparation, and look to be soon attacked. -So Launcelot sailed to his Duchy of Guienne with his following, and -Gawaine soon followed with an army, and he beguiled Arthur to go -with him. Arthur left the kingdom in Sir Mordred's hands until -you should return--" - -"Ah--a king's customary wisdom!" - -"Yes. Sir Mordred set himself at once to work to make his kingship -permanent. He was going to marry Guenever, as a first move; but -she fled and shut herself up in the Tower of London. Mordred -attacked; the Bishop of Canterbury dropped down on him with the -Interdict. The king returned; Mordred fought him at Dover, at -Canterbury, and again at Barham Down. Then there was talk of peace -and a composition. Terms, Mordred to have Cornwall and Kent during -Arthur's life, and the whole kingdom afterward." - -"Well, upon my word! My dream of a republic to _be_ a dream, and -so remain." - -"Yes. The two armies lay near Salisbury. Gawaine--Gawaine's head -is at Dover Castle, he fell in the fight there--Gawaine appeared to -Arthur in a dream, at least his ghost did, and warned him to -refrain from conflict for a month, let the delay cost what it might. -But battle was precipitated by an accident. Arthur had given -order that if a sword was raised during the consultation over -the proposed treaty with Mordred, sound the trumpet and fall on! -for he had no confidence in Mordred. Mordred had given a similar -order to _his_ people. Well, by and by an adder bit a knight's heel; -the knight forgot all about the order, and made a slash at the -adder with his sword. Inside of half a minute those two prodigious -hosts came together with a crash! They butchered away all day. -Then the king--however, we have started something fresh since -you left--our paper has." - -"No? What is that?" - -"War correspondence!" - -"Why, that's good." - -"Yes, the paper was booming right along, for the Interdict made -no impression, got no grip, while the war lasted. I had war -correspondents with both armies. I will finish that battle by -reading you what one of the boys says: - - 'Then the king looked about him, and then was he - ware of all his host and of all his good knights - were left no more on live but two knights, that - was Sir Lucan de Butlere, and his brother Sir - Bedivere: and they were full sore wounded. Jesu - mercy, said the king, where are all my noble - knights becomen? Alas that ever I should see this - doleful day. For now, said Arthur, I am come to - mine end. But would to God that I wist where were - that traitor Sir Mordred, that hath caused all - this mischief. Then was King Arthur ware where Sir - Mordred leaned upon his sword among a great heap - of dead men. Now give me my spear, said Arthur - unto Sir Lucan, for yonder I have espied the - traitor that all this woe hath wrought. Sir, let - him be, said Sir Lucan, for he is unhappy; and if - ye pass this unhappy day, ye shall be right well - revenged upon him. Good lord, remember ye of your - night's dream, and what the spirit of Sir Gawaine - told you this night, yet God of his great goodness - hath preserved you hitherto. Therefore, for God's - sake, my lord, leave off by this. For blessed be - God ye have won the field: for here we be three - on live, and with Sir Mordred is none on live. - And if ye leave off now, this wicked day of - destiny is past. Tide me death, betide me life, - saith the king, now I see him yonder alone, he - shall never escape mine hands, for at a better - avail shall I never have him. God speed you well, - said Sir Bedivere. Then the king gat his spear - in both his hands, and ran toward Sir Mordred - crying, Traitor, now is thy death day come. And - when Sir Mordred heard Sir Arthur, he ran until - him with his sword drawn in his hand. And then - King Arthur smote Sir Mordred under the shield, - with a foin of his spear throughout the body more - than a fathom. And when Sir Mordred felt that he - had his death's wound, he thrust himself, with - the might that he had, up to the butt of King - Arthur's spear. And right so he smote his father - Arthur with his sword holden in both his hands, - on the side of the head, that the sword pierced - the helmet and the brain-pan, and therewithal - Sir Mordred fell stark dead to the earth. And - the noble Arthur fell in a swoon to the earth, - and there he swooned oft-times--'" - -"That is a good piece of war correspondence, Clarence; you are -a first-rate newspaper man. Well--is the king all right? Did -he get well?" - -"Poor soul, no. He is dead." - -I was utterly stunned; it had not seemed to me that any wound -could be mortal to him. - -"And the queen, Clarence?" - -"She is a nun, in Almesbury." - -"What changes! and in such a short while. It is inconceivable. -What next, I wonder?" - -"I can tell you what next." - -"Well?" - -"Stake our lives and stand by them!" - -"What do you mean by that?" - -"The Church is master now. The Interdict included you with Mordred; -it is not to be removed while you remain alive. The clans are -gathering. The Church has gathered all the knights that are left -alive, and as soon as you are discovered we shall have business -on our hands." - -"Stuff! With our deadly scientific war-material; with our hosts -of trained--" - -"Save your breath--we haven't sixty faithful left!" - -"What are you saying? Our schools, our colleges, our vast -workshops, our--" - -"When those knights come, those establishments will empty themselves -and go over to the enemy. Did you think you had educated the -superstition out of those people?" - -"I certainly did think it." - -"Well, then, you may unthink it. They stood every strain easily ---until the Interdict. Since then, they merely put on a bold -outside--at heart they are quaking. Make up your mind to it ---when the armies come, the mask will fall." - -"It's hard news. We are lost. They will turn our own science -against us." - -"No they won't." - -"Why?" - -"Because I and a handful of the faithful have blocked that game. -I'll tell you what I've done, and what moved me to it. Smart as -you are, the Church was smarter. It was the Church that sent -you cruising--through her servants, the doctors." - -"Clarence!" - -"It is the truth. I know it. Every officer of your ship was -the Church's picked servant, and so was every man of the crew." - -"Oh, come!" - -"It is just as I tell you. I did not find out these things at once, -but I found them out finally. Did you send me verbal information, -by the commander of the ship, to the effect that upon his return -to you, with supplies, you were going to leave Cadiz--" - -"Cadiz! I haven't been at Cadiz at all!" - -"--going to leave Cadiz and cruise in distant seas indefinitely, -for the health of your family? Did you send me that word?" - -"Of course not. I would have written, wouldn't I?" - -"Naturally. I was troubled and suspicious. When the commander -sailed again I managed to ship a spy with him. I have never -heard of vessel or spy since. I gave myself two weeks to hear -from you in. Then I resolved to send a ship to Cadiz. There was -a reason why I didn't." - -"What was that?" - -"Our navy had suddenly and mysteriously disappeared! Also, as -suddenly and as mysteriously, the railway and telegraph and -telephone service ceased, the men all deserted, poles were cut -down, the Church laid a ban upon the electric light! I had to be -up and doing--and straight off. Your life was safe--nobody in -these kingdoms but Merlin would venture to touch such a magician -as you without ten thousand men at his back--I had nothing to -think of but how to put preparations in the best trim against your -coming. I felt safe myself--nobody would be anxious to touch -a pet of yours. So this is what I did. From our various works -I selected all the men--boys I mean--whose faithfulness under -whatsoever pressure I could swear to, and I called them together -secretly and gave them their instructions. There are fifty-two of -them; none younger than fourteen, and none above seventeen years old." - -"Why did you select boys?" - -"Because all the others were born in an atmosphere of superstition -and reared in it. It is in their blood and bones. We imagined -we had educated it out of them; they thought so, too; the Interdict -woke them up like a thunderclap! It revealed them to themselves, -and it revealed them to me, too. With boys it was different. Such -as have been under our training from seven to ten years have had -no acquaintance with the Church's terrors, and it was among these -that I found my fifty-two. As a next move, I paid a private visit -to that old cave of Merlin's--not the small one--the big one--" - -"Yes, the one where we secretly established our first great electric -plant when I was projecting a miracle." - -"Just so. And as that miracle hadn't become necessary then, -I thought it might be a good idea to utilize the plant now. I've -provisioned the cave for a siege--" - -"A good idea, a first-rate idea." - -"I think so. I placed four of my boys there as a guard--inside, -and out of sight. Nobody was to be hurt--while outside; but any -attempt to enter--well, we said just let anybody try it! Then -I went out into the hills and uncovered and cut the secret wires -which connected your bedroom with the wires that go to the dynamite -deposits under all our vast factories, mills, workshops, magazines, -etc., and about midnight I and my boys turned out and connected -that wire with the cave, and nobody but you and I suspects where -the other end of it goes to. We laid it under ground, of course, and -it was all finished in a couple of hours or so. We sha'n't have -to leave our fortress now when we want to blow up our civilization." - -"It was the right move--and the natural one; military necessity, -in the changed condition of things. Well, what changes _have_ come! -We expected to be besieged in the palace some time or other, but ---however, go on." - -"Next, we built a wire fence." - -"Wire fence?" - -"Yes. You dropped the hint of it yourself, two or three years ago." - -"Oh, I remember--the time the Church tried her strength against -us the first time, and presently thought it wise to wait for a -hopefuler season. Well, how have you arranged the fence?" - -"I start twelve immensely strong wires--naked, not insulated ---from a big dynamo in the cave--dynamo with no brushes except -a positive and a negative one--" - -"Yes, that's right." - -"The wires go out from the cave and fence in a circle of level -ground a hundred yards in diameter; they make twelve independent -fences, ten feet apart--that is to say, twelve circles within -circles--and their ends come into the cave again." - -"Right; go on." - -"The fences are fastened to heavy oaken posts only three feet apart, -and these posts are sunk five feet in the ground." - -"That is good and strong." - -"Yes. The wires have no ground-connection outside of the cave. -They go out from the positive brush of the dynamo; there is a -ground-connection through the negative brush; the other ends of -the wire return to the cave, and each is grounded independently." - -"No, no, that won't do!" - -"Why?" - -"It's too expensive--uses up force for nothing. You don't want -any ground-connection except the one through the negative brush. -The other end of every wire must be brought back into the cave -and fastened independently, and _without_ any ground-connection. -Now, then, observe the economy of it. A cavalry charge hurls -itself against the fence; you are using no power, you are spending -no money, for there is only one ground-connection till those horses -come against the wire; the moment they touch it they form a -connection with the negative brush _through the ground_, and drop -dead. Don't you see?--you are using no energy until it is needed; -your lightning is there, and ready, like the load in a gun; but -it isn't costing you a cent till you touch it off. Oh, yes, the -single ground-connection--" - -"Of course! I don't know how I overlooked that. It's not only -cheaper, but it's more effectual than the other way, for if wires -break or get tangled, no harm is done." - -"No, especially if we have a tell-tale in the cave and disconnect -the broken wire. Well, go on. The gatlings?" - -"Yes--that's arranged. In the center of the inner circle, on a -spacious platform six feet high, I've grouped a battery of thirteen -gatling guns, and provided plenty of ammunition." - -"That's it. They command every approach, and when the Church's -knights arrive, there's going to be music. The brow of the -precipice over the cave--" - -"I've got a wire fence there, and a gatling. They won't drop any -rocks down on us." - -"Well, and the glass-cylinder dynamite torpedoes?" - -"That's attended to. It's the prettiest garden that was ever -planted. It's a belt forty feet wide, and goes around the outer -fence--distance between it and the fence one hundred yards--kind of -neutral ground that space is. There isn't a single square yard -of that whole belt but is equipped with a torpedo. We laid them -on the surface of the ground, and sprinkled a layer of sand over -them. It's an innocent looking garden, but you let a man start -in to hoe it once, and you'll see." - -"You tested the torpedoes?" - -"Well, I was going to, but--" - -"But what? Why, it's an immense oversight not to apply a--" - -"Test? Yes, I know; but they're all right; I laid a few in the -public road beyond our lines and they've been tested." - -"Oh, that alters the case. Who did it?" - -"A Church committee." - -"How kind!" - -"Yes. They came to command us to make submission. You see they -didn't really come to test the torpedoes; that was merely an incident." - -"Did the committee make a report?" - -"Yes, they made one. You could have heard it a mile." - -"Unanimous?" - -"That was the nature of it. After that I put up some signs, for the -protection of future committees, and we have had no intruders since." - -"Clarence, you've done a world of work, and done it perfectly." - -"We had plenty of time for it; there wasn't any occasion for hurry." - -We sat silent awhile, thinking. Then my mind was made up, and -I said: - -"Yes, everything is ready; everything is shipshape, no detail is -wanting. I know what to do now." - -"So do I; sit down and wait." - -"No, _sir_! rise up and _strike_!" - -"Do you mean it?" - -"Yes, indeed! The _de_fensive isn't in my line, and the _of_fensive -is. That is, when I hold a fair hand--two-thirds as good a hand -as the enemy. Oh, yes, we'll rise up and strike; that's our game." - -"A hundred to one you are right. When does the performance begin?" - -"_Now!_ We'll proclaim the Republic." - -"Well, that _will_ precipitate things, sure enough!" - -"It will make them buzz, I tell you! England will be a hornets' -nest before noon to-morrow, if the Church's hand hasn't lost its -cunning--and we know it hasn't. Now you write and I'll dictate thus: - - "PROCLAMATION - - --- - - "BE IT KNOWN UNTO ALL. Whereas the king having died - and left no heir, it becomes my duty to continue the - executive authority vested in me, until a government - shall have been created and set in motion. The - monarchy has lapsed, it no longer exists. By - consequence, all political power has reverted to its - original source, the people of the nation. With the - monarchy, its several adjuncts died also; wherefore - there is no longer a nobility, no longer a privileged - class, no longer an Established Church; all men are - become exactly equal; they are upon one common - level, and religion is free. _A Republic is hereby - proclaimed_, as being the natural estate of a nation - when other authority has ceased. It is the duty of - the British people to meet together immediately, - and by their votes elect representatives and deliver - into their hands the government." - -I signed it "The Boss," and dated it from Merlin's Cave. -Clarence said-- - -"Why, that tells where we are, and invites them to call right away." - -"That is the idea. We _strike_--by the Proclamation--then it's -their innings. Now have the thing set up and printed and posted, -right off; that is, give the order; then, if you've got a couple -of bicycles handy at the foot of the hill, ho for Merlin's Cave!" - -"I shall be ready in ten minutes. What a cyclone there is going -to be to-morrow when this piece of paper gets to work!... It's a -pleasant old palace, this is; I wonder if we shall ever again ---but never mind about that." - - - -CHAPTER XLIII - -THE BATTLE OF THE SAND BELT - -In Merlin's Cave--Clarence and I and fifty-two fresh, bright, -well-educated, clean-minded young British boys. At dawn I sent -an order to the factories and to all our great works to stop -operations and remove all life to a safe distance, as everything -was going to be blown up by secret mines, "_and no telling at what -moment--therefore, vacate at once_." These people knew me, and -had confidence in my word. They would clear out without waiting -to part their hair, and I could take my own time about dating the -explosion. You couldn't hire one of them to go back during the -century, if the explosion was still impending. - -We had a week of waiting. It was not dull for me, because I was -writing all the time. During the first three days, I finished -turning my old diary into this narrative form; it only required -a chapter or so to bring it down to date. The rest of the week -I took up in writing letters to my wife. It was always my habit -to write to Sandy every day, whenever we were separate, and now -I kept up the habit for love of it, and of her, though I couldn't -do anything with the letters, of course, after I had written them. -But it put in the time, you see, and was almost like talking; -it was almost as if I was saying, "Sandy, if you and Hello-Central -were here in the cave, instead of only your photographs, what -good times we could have!" And then, you know, I could imagine -the baby goo-gooing something out in reply, with its fists in its -mouth and itself stretched across its mother's lap on its back, -and she a-laughing and admiring and worshipping, and now and then -tickling under the baby's chin to set it cackling, and then maybe -throwing in a word of answer to me herself--and so on and so on ---well, don't you know, I could sit there in the cave with my pen, -and keep it up, that way, by the hour with them. Why, it was -almost like having us all together again. - -I had spies out every night, of course, to get news. Every report -made things look more and more impressive. The hosts were gathering, -gathering; down all the roads and paths of England the knights were -riding, and priests rode with them, to hearten these original -Crusaders, this being the Church's war. All the nobilities, big -and little, were on their way, and all the gentry. This was all -as was expected. We should thin out this sort of folk to such -a degree that the people would have nothing to do but just step -to the front with their republic and-- - -Ah, what a donkey I was! Toward the end of the week I began to get -this large and disenchanting fact through my head: that the mass -of the nation had swung their caps and shouted for the republic for -about one day, and there an end! The Church, the nobles, and -the gentry then turned one grand, all-disapproving frown upon them -and shriveled them into sheep! From that moment the sheep had -begun to gather to the fold--that is to say, the camps--and offer -their valueless lives and their valuable wool to the "righteous -cause." Why, even the very men who had lately been slaves were -in the "righteous cause," and glorifying it, praying for it, -sentimentally slabbering over it, just like all the other commoners. -Imagine such human muck as this; conceive of this folly! - -Yes, it was now "Death to the Republic!" everywhere--not a dissenting -voice. All England was marching against us! Truly, this was more -than I had bargained for. - -I watched my fifty-two boys narrowly; watched their faces, their -walk, their unconscious attitudes: for all these are a language ---a language given us purposely that it may betray us in times of -emergency, when we have secrets which we want to keep. I knew -that that thought would keep saying itself over and over again -in their minds and hearts, _All England is marching against us!_ -and ever more strenuously imploring attention with each repetition, -ever more sharply realizing itself to their imaginations, until -even in their sleep they would find no rest from it, but hear -the vague and flitting creatures of the dreams say, _All England_ ---ALL ENGLAND!--_is marching against you_! I knew all this would -happen; I knew that ultimately the pressure would become so great -that it would compel utterance; therefore, I must be ready with an -answer at that time--an answer well chosen and tranquilizing. - -I was right. The time came. They HAD to speak. Poor lads, it -was pitiful to see, they were so pale, so worn, so troubled. At -first their spokesman could hardly find voice or words; but he -presently got both. This is what he said--and he put it in the -neat modern English taught him in my schools: - -"We have tried to forget what we are--English boys! We have tried -to put reason before sentiment, duty before love; our minds -approve, but our hearts reproach us. While apparently it was -only the nobility, only the gentry, only the twenty-five or thirty -thousand knights left alive out of the late wars, we were of one -mind, and undisturbed by any troubling doubt; each and every one -of these fifty-two lads who stand here before you, said, 'They -have chosen--it is their affair.' But think!--the matter is -altered--_All England is marching against us_! Oh, sir, consider! ---reflect!--these people are our people, they are bone of our bone, -flesh of our flesh, we love them--do not ask us to destroy our nation!" - -Well, it shows the value of looking ahead, and being ready for -a thing when it happens. If I hadn't foreseen this thing and been -fixed, that boy would have had me!--I couldn't have said a word. -But I was fixed. I said: - -"My boys, your hearts are in the right place, you have thought the -worthy thought, you have done the worthy thing. You are English -boys, you will remain English boys, and you will keep that name -unsmirched. Give yourselves no further concern, let your minds be -at peace. Consider this: while all England is marching against -us, who is in the van? Who, by the commonest rules of war, will -march in the front? Answer me." - -"The mounted host of mailed knights." - -"True. They are thirty thousand strong. Acres deep they will march. -Now, observe: none but _they_ will ever strike the sand-belt! Then -there will be an episode! Immediately after, the civilian multitude -in the rear will retire, to meet business engagements elsewhere. -None but nobles and gentry are knights, and _none but these_ will -remain to dance to our music after that episode. It is absolutely -true that we shall have to fight nobody but these thirty thousand -knights. Now speak, and it shall be as you decide. Shall we -avoid the battle, retire from the field?" - -"NO!!!" - -The shout was unanimous and hearty. - -"Are you--are you--well, afraid of these thirty thousand knights?" - -That joke brought out a good laugh, the boys' troubles vanished -away, and they went gaily to their posts. Ah, they were a darling -fifty-two! As pretty as girls, too. - -I was ready for the enemy now. Let the approaching big day come -along--it would find us on deck. - -The big day arrived on time. At dawn the sentry on watch in the -corral came into the cave and reported a moving black mass under -the horizon, and a faint sound which he thought to be military -music. Breakfast was just ready; we sat down and ate it. - -This over, I made the boys a little speech, and then sent out -a detail to man the battery, with Clarence in command of it. - -The sun rose presently and sent its unobstructed splendors over -the land, and we saw a prodigious host moving slowly toward us, -with the steady drift and aligned front of a wave of the sea. -Nearer and nearer it came, and more and more sublimely imposing -became its aspect; yes, all England was there, apparently. Soon -we could see the innumerable banners fluttering, and then the sun -struck the sea of armor and set it all aflash. Yes, it was a fine -sight; I hadn't ever seen anything to beat it. - -At last we could make out details. All the front ranks, no telling -how many acres deep, were horsemen--plumed knights in armor. -Suddenly we heard the blare of trumpets; the slow walk burst into -a gallop, and then--well, it was wonderful to see! Down swept -that vast horse-shoe wave--it approached the sand-belt--my breath -stood still; nearer, nearer--the strip of green turf beyond the -yellow belt grew narrow--narrower still--became a mere ribbon in -front of the horses--then disappeared under their hoofs. Great -Scott! Why, the whole front of that host shot into the sky with -a thunder-crash, and became a whirling tempest of rags and fragments; -and along the ground lay a thick wall of smoke that hid what was -left of the multitude from our sight. - -Time for the second step in the plan of campaign! I touched -a button, and shook the bones of England loose from her spine! - -In that explosion all our noble civilization-factories went up in -the air and disappeared from the earth. It was a pity, but it -was necessary. We could not afford to let the enemy turn our own -weapons against us. - -Now ensued one of the dullest quarter-hours I had ever endured. -We waited in a silent solitude enclosed by our circles of wire, -and by a circle of heavy smoke outside of these. We couldn't -see over the wall of smoke, and we couldn't see through it. But -at last it began to shred away lazily, and by the end of another -quarter-hour the land was clear and our curiosity was enabled -to satisfy itself. No living creature was in sight! We now -perceived that additions had been made to our defenses. The -dynamite had dug a ditch more than a hundred feet wide, all around -us, and cast up an embankment some twenty-five feet high on both -borders of it. As to destruction of life, it was amazing. Moreover, -it was beyond estimate. Of course, we could not _count_ the dead, -because they did not exist as individuals, but merely as homogeneous -protoplasm, with alloys of iron and buttons. - -No life was in sight, but necessarily there must have been some -wounded in the rear ranks, who were carried off the field under -cover of the wall of smoke; there would be sickness among the -others--there always is, after an episode like that. But there -would be no reinforcements; this was the last stand of the chivalry -of England; it was all that was left of the order, after the recent -annihilating wars. So I felt quite safe in believing that the -utmost force that could for the future be brought against us -would be but small; that is, of knights. I therefore issued a -congratulatory proclamation to my army in these words: - - SOLDIERS, CHAMPIONS OF HUMAN LIBERTY AND EQUALITY: - Your General congratulates you! In the pride of his - strength and the vanity of his renown, an arrogant - enemy came against you. You were ready. The conflict - was brief; on your side, glorious. This mighty - victory, having been achieved utterly without loss, - stands without example in history. So long as the - planets shall continue to move in their orbits, the - BATTLE OF THE SAND-BELT will not perish out of the - memories of men. - - THE BOSS. - -I read it well, and the applause I got was very gratifying to me. -I then wound up with these remarks: - -"The war with the English nation, as a nation, is at an end. -The nation has retired from the field and the war. Before it can -be persuaded to return, war will have ceased. This campaign is -the only one that is going to be fought. It will be brief ---the briefest in history. Also the most destructive to life, -considered from the standpoint of proportion of casualties to -numbers engaged. We are done with the nation; henceforth we deal -only with the knights. English knights can be killed, but they -cannot be conquered. We know what is before us. While one of -these men remains alive, our task is not finished, the war is not -ended. We will kill them all." [Loud and long continued applause.] - -I picketed the great embankments thrown up around our lines by -the dynamite explosion--merely a lookout of a couple of boys -to announce the enemy when he should appear again. - -Next, I sent an engineer and forty men to a point just beyond -our lines on the south, to turn a mountain brook that was there, -and bring it within our lines and under our command, arranging -it in such a way that I could make instant use of it in an emergency. -The forty men were divided into two shifts of twenty each, and -were to relieve each other every two hours. In ten hours the -work was accomplished. - -It was nightfall now, and I withdrew my pickets. The one who -had had the northern outlook reported a camp in sight, but visible -with the glass only. He also reported that a few knights had been -feeling their way toward us, and had driven some cattle across our -lines, but that the knights themselves had not come very near. -That was what I had been expecting. They were feeling us, you -see; they wanted to know if we were going to play that red terror -on them again. They would grow bolder in the night, perhaps. -I believed I knew what project they would attempt, because it was -plainly the thing I would attempt myself if I were in their places -and as ignorant as they were. I mentioned it to Clarence. - -"I think you are right," said he; "it is the obvious thing for -them to try." - -"Well, then," I said, "if they do it they are doomed." - -"Certainly." - -"They won't have the slightest show in the world." - -"Of course they won't." - -"It's dreadful, Clarence. It seems an awful pity." - -The thing disturbed me so that I couldn't get any peace of mind -for thinking of it and worrying over it. So, at last, to quiet -my conscience, I framed this message to the knights: - - TO THE HONORABLE THE COMMANDER OF THE INSURGENT - CHIVALRY OF ENGLAND: YOU fight in vain. We know - your strength--if one may call it by that name. - We know that at the utmost you cannot bring - against us above five and twenty thousand knights. - Therefore, you have no chance--none whatever. - Reflect: we are well equipped, well fortified, we - number 54. Fifty-four what? Men? No, MINDS--the - capablest in the world; a force against which - mere animal might may no more hope to prevail than - may the idle waves of the sea hope to prevail - against the granite barriers of England. Be advised. - We offer you your lives; for the sake of your - families, do not reject the gift. We offer you - this chance, and it is the last: throw down your - arms; surrender unconditionally to the Republic, - and all will be forgiven. - - (Signed) THE BOSS. - -I read it to Clarence, and said I proposed to send it by a flag -of truce. He laughed the sarcastic laugh he was born with, and said: - -"Somehow it seems impossible for you to ever fully realize what -these nobilities are. Now let us save a little time and trouble. -Consider me the commander of the knights yonder. Now, then, -you are the flag of truce; approach and deliver me your message, -and I will give you your answer." - -I humored the idea. I came forward under an imaginary guard of -the enemy's soldiers, produced my paper, and read it through. -For answer, Clarence struck the paper out of my hand, pursed up -a scornful lip and said with lofty disdain: - -"Dismember me this animal, and return him in a basket to the -base-born knave who sent him; other answer have I none!" - -How empty is theory in presence of fact! And this was just fact, -and nothing else. It was the thing that would have happened, -there was no getting around that. I tore up the paper and granted -my mistimed sentimentalities a permanent rest. - -Then, to business. I tested the electric signals from the gatling -platform to the cave, and made sure that they were all right; -I tested and retested those which commanded the fences--these -were signals whereby I could break and renew the electric current -in each fence independently of the others at will. I placed the -brook-connection under the guard and authority of three of my -best boys, who would alternate in two-hour watches all night and -promptly obey my signal, if I should have occasion to give it ---three revolver-shots in quick succession. Sentry-duty was discarded -for the night, and the corral left empty of life; I ordered that -quiet be maintained in the cave, and the electric lights turned -down to a glimmer. - -As soon as it was good and dark, I shut off the current from all -the fences, and then groped my way out to the embankment bordering -our side of the great dynamite ditch. I crept to the top of it -and lay there on the slant of the muck to watch. But it was -too dark to see anything. As for sounds, there were none. The -stillness was deathlike. True, there were the usual night-sounds -of the country--the whir of night-birds, the buzzing of insects, -the barking of distant dogs, the mellow lowing of far-off kine ---but these didn't seem to break the stillness, they only intensified -it, and added a grewsome melancholy to it into the bargain. - -I presently gave up looking, the night shut down so black, but -I kept my ears strained to catch the least suspicious sound, for -I judged I had only to wait, and I shouldn't be disappointed. -However, I had to wait a long time. At last I caught what you -may call in distinct glimpses of sound dulled metallic sound. -I pricked up my ears, then, and held my breath, for this was the -sort of thing I had been waiting for. This sound thickened, and -approached--from toward the north. Presently, I heard it at my -own level--the ridge-top of the opposite embankment, a hundred -feet or more away. Then I seemed to see a row of black dots appear -along that ridge--human heads? I couldn't tell; it mightn't be -anything at all; you can't depend on your eyes when your imagination -is out of focus. However, the question was soon settled. I heard -that metallic noise descending into the great ditch. It augmented -fast, it spread all along, and it unmistakably furnished me this -fact: an armed host was taking up its quarters in the ditch. Yes, -these people were arranging a little surprise party for us. We -could expect entertainment about dawn, possibly earlier. - -I groped my way back to the corral now; I had seen enough. I went -to the platform and signaled to turn the current on to the two -inner fences. Then I went into the cave, and found everything -satisfactory there--nobody awake but the working-watch. I woke -Clarence and told him the great ditch was filling up with men, -and that I believed all the knights were coming for us in a body. -It was my notion that as soon as dawn approached we could expect -the ditch's ambuscaded thousands to swarm up over the embankment -and make an assault, and be followed immediately by the rest -of their army. - -Clarence said: - -"They will be wanting to send a scout or two in the dark to make -preliminary observations. Why not take the lightning off the -outer fences, and give them a chance?" - -"I've already done it, Clarence. Did you ever know me to be -inhospitable?" - -"No, you are a good heart. I want to go and--" - -"Be a reception committee? I will go, too." - -We crossed the corral and lay down together between the two inside -fences. Even the dim light of the cave had disordered our eyesight -somewhat, but the focus straightway began to regulate itself and -soon it was adjusted for present circumstances. We had had to feel -our way before, but we could make out to see the fence posts now. -We started a whispered conversation, but suddenly Clarence broke -off and said: - -"What is that?" - -"What is what?" - -"That thing yonder." - -"What thing--where?" - -"There beyond you a little piece--dark something--a dull shape -of some kind--against the second fence." - -I gazed and he gazed. I said: - -"Could it be a man, Clarence?" - -"No, I think not. If you notice, it looks a lit--why, it _is_ -a man!--leaning on the fence." - -"I certainly believe it is; let us go and see." - -We crept along on our hands and knees until we were pretty close, -and then looked up. Yes, it was a man--a dim great figure in armor, -standing erect, with both hands on the upper wire--and, of course, -there was a smell of burning flesh. Poor fellow, dead as a -door-nail, and never knew what hurt him. He stood there like a -statue--no motion about him, except that his plumes swished about -a little in the night wind. We rose up and looked in through -the bars of his visor, but couldn't make out whether we knew him -or not--features too dim and shadowed. - -We heard muffled sounds approaching, and we sank down to the ground -where we were. We made out another knight vaguely; he was coming -very stealthily, and feeling his way. He was near enough now for -us to see him put out a hand, find an upper wire, then bend and -step under it and over the lower one. Now he arrived at the -first knight--and started slightly when he discovered him. He -stood a moment--no doubt wondering why the other one didn't move -on; then he said, in a low voice, "Why dreamest thou here, good -Sir Mar--" then he laid his hand on the corpse's shoulder--and just -uttered a little soft moan and sunk down dead. Killed by a dead -man, you see--killed by a dead friend, in fact. There was something -awful about it. - -These early birds came scattering along after each other, about -one every five minutes in our vicinity, during half an hour. -They brought no armor of offense but their swords; as a rule, -they carried the sword ready in the hand, and put it forward and -found the wires with it. We would now and then see a blue spark -when the knight that caused it was so far away as to be invisible -to us; but we knew what had happened, all the same; poor fellow, -he had touched a charged wire with his sword and been electrocuted. -We had brief intervals of grim stillness, interrupted with piteous -regularity by the clash made by the falling of an iron-clad; and -this sort of thing was going on, right along, and was very creepy -there in the dark and lonesomeness. - -We concluded to make a tour between the inner fences. We elected -to walk upright, for convenience's sake; we argued that if discerned, -we should be taken for friends rather than enemies, and in any case -we should be out of reach of swords, and these gentry did not seem -to have any spears along. Well, it was a curious trip. Everywhere -dead men were lying outside the second fence--not plainly visible, -but still visible; and we counted fifteen of those pathetic -statues--dead knights standing with their hands on the upper wire. - -One thing seemed to be sufficiently demonstrated: our current -was so tremendous that it killed before the victim could cry out. -Pretty soon we detected a muffled and heavy sound, and next moment -we guessed what it was. It was a surprise in force coming! I whispered -Clarence to go and wake the army, and notify it to wait in silence -in the cave for further orders. He was soon back, and we stood -by the inner fence and watched the silent lightning do its awful -work upon that swarming host. One could make out but little of -detail; but he could note that a black mass was piling itself up -beyond the second fence. That swelling bulk was dead men! Our -camp was enclosed with a solid wall of the dead--a bulwark, -a breastwork, of corpses, you may say. One terrible thing about -this thing was the absence of human voices; there were no cheers, -no war cries; being intent upon a surprise, these men moved as -noiselessly as they could; and always when the front rank was near -enough to their goal to make it proper for them to begin to get -a shout ready, of course they struck the fatal line and went down -without testifying. - -I sent a current through the third fence now; and almost immediately -through the fourth and fifth, so quickly were the gaps filled up. -I believed the time was come now for my climax; I believed that -that whole army was in our trap. Anyway, it was high time to find -out. So I touched a button and set fifty electric suns aflame -on the top of our precipice. - -Land, what a sight! We were enclosed in three walls of dead men! -All the other fences were pretty nearly filled with the living, -who were stealthily working their way forward through the wires. -The sudden glare paralyzed this host, petrified them, you may say, -with astonishment; there was just one instant for me to utilize -their immobility in, and I didn't lose the chance. You see, in -another instant they would have recovered their faculties, then -they'd have burst into a cheer and made a rush, and my wires -would have gone down before it; but that lost instant lost them -their opportunity forever; while even that slight fragment of time -was still unspent, I shot the current through all the fences and -struck the whole host dead in their tracks! _There_ was a groan -you could _hear_! It voiced the death-pang of eleven thousand men. -It swelled out on the night with awful pathos. - -A glance showed that the rest of the enemy--perhaps ten thousand -strong--were between us and the encircling ditch, and pressing -forward to the assault. Consequently we had them _all!_ and had -them past help. Time for the last act of the tragedy. I fired -the three appointed revolver shots--which meant: - -"Turn on the water!" - -There was a sudden rush and roar, and in a minute the mountain -brook was raging through the big ditch and creating a river a -hundred feet wide and twenty-five deep. - -"Stand to your guns, men! Open fire!" - -The thirteen gatlings began to vomit death into the fated ten -thousand. They halted, they stood their ground a moment against -that withering deluge of fire, then they broke, faced about and -swept toward the ditch like chaff before a gale. A full fourth -part of their force never reached the top of the lofty embankment; -the three-fourths reached it and plunged over--to death by drowning. - -Within ten short minutes after we had opened fire, armed resistance -was totally annihilated, the campaign was ended, we fifty-four were -masters of England. Twenty-five thousand men lay dead around us. - -But how treacherous is fortune! In a little while--say an hour ---happened a thing, by my own fault, which--but I have no heart -to write that. Let the record end here. - - - -CHAPTER XLIV - -A POSTSCRIPT BY CLARENCE - -I, Clarence, must write it for him. He proposed that we two -go out and see if any help could be accorded the wounded. I was -strenuous against the project. I said that if there were many, -we could do but little for them; and it would not be wise for us to -trust ourselves among them, anyway. But he could seldom be turned -from a purpose once formed; so we shut off the electric current -from the fences, took an escort along, climbed over the enclosing -ramparts of dead knights, and moved out upon the field. The first -wounded mall who appealed for help was sitting with his back -against a dead comrade. When The Boss bent over him and spoke -to him, the man recognized him and stabbed him. That knight was -Sir Meliagraunce, as I found out by tearing off his helmet. He -will not ask for help any more. - -We carried The Boss to the cave and gave his wound, which was -not very serious, the best care we could. In this service we had -the help of Merlin, though we did not know it. He was disguised -as a woman, and appeared to be a simple old peasant goodwife. -In this disguise, with brown-stained face and smooth shaven, he -had appeared a few days after The Boss was hurt and offered to cook -for us, saying her people had gone off to join certain new camps -which the enemy were forming, and that she was starving. The Boss -had been getting along very well, and had amused himself with -finishing up his record. - -We were glad to have this woman, for we were short handed. We -were in a trap, you see--a trap of our own making. If we stayed -where we were, our dead would kill us; if we moved out of our -defenses, we should no longer be invincible. We had conquered; -in turn we were conquered. The Boss recognized this; we all -recognized it. If we could go to one of those new camps and -patch up some kind of terms with the enemy--yes, but The Boss -could not go, and neither could I, for I was among the first that -were made sick by the poisonous air bred by those dead thousands. -Others were taken down, and still others. To-morrow-- - -_To-morrow._ It is here. And with it the end. About midnight -I awoke, and saw that hag making curious passes in the air about -The Boss's head and face, and wondered what it meant. Everybody -but the dynamo-watch lay steeped in sleep; there was no sound. -The woman ceased from her mysterious foolery, and started tip-toeing -toward the door. I called out: - -"Stop! What have you been doing?" - -She halted, and said with an accent of malicious satisfaction: - -"Ye were conquerors; ye are conquered! These others are perishing ---you also. Ye shall all die in this place--every one--except _him_. -He sleepeth now--and shall sleep thirteen centuries. I am Merlin!" - -Then such a delirium of silly laughter overtook him that he reeled -about like a drunken man, and presently fetched up against one -of our wires. His mouth is spread open yet; apparently he is still -laughing. I suppose the face will retain that petrified laugh until -the corpse turns to dust. - -The Boss has never stirred--sleeps like a stone. If he does not -wake to-day we shall understand what kind of a sleep it is, and -his body will then be borne to a place in one of the remote recesses -of the cave where none will ever find it to desecrate it. As for -the rest of us--well, it is agreed that if any one of us ever -escapes alive from this place, he will write the fact here, and -loyally hide this Manuscript with The Boss, our dear good chief, -whose property it is, be he alive or dead. - - - -THE END OF THE MANUSCRIPT - - - - - -FINAL P.S. BY M.T. - -The dawn was come when I laid the Manuscript aside. The rain -had almost ceased, the world was gray and sad, the exhausted storm -was sighing and sobbing itself to rest. I went to the stranger's -room, and listened at his door, which was slightly ajar. I could -hear his voice, and so I knocked. There was no answer, but I still -heard the voice. I peeped in. The man lay on his back in bed, -talking brokenly but with spirit, and punctuating with his arms, -which he thrashed about, restlessly, as sick people do in delirium. -I slipped in softly and bent over him. His mutterings and -ejaculations went on. I spoke--merely a word, to call his attention. -His glassy eyes and his ashy face were alight in an instant with -pleasure, gratitude, gladness, welcome: - -"Oh, Sandy, you are come at last--how I have longed for you! Sit -by me--do not leave me--never leave me again, Sandy, never again. -Where is your hand?--give it me, dear, let me hold it--there ---now all is well, all is peace, and I am happy again--_we_ are happy -again, isn't it so, Sandy? You are so dim, so vague, you are but -a mist, a cloud, but you are _here_, and that is blessedness sufficient; -and I have your hand; don't take it away--it is for only a little -while, I shall not require it long.... Was that the child?... -Hello-Central!... she doesn't answer. Asleep, perhaps? Bring her -when she wakes, and let me touch her hands, her face, her hair, -and tell her good-bye.... Sandy! Yes, you are there. I lost -myself a moment, and I thought you were gone.... Have I been -sick long? It must be so; it seems months to me. And such dreams! -such strange and awful dreams, Sandy! Dreams that were as real -as reality--delirium, of course, but _so_ real! Why, I thought -the king was dead, I thought you were in Gaul and couldn't get -home, I thought there was a revolution; in the fantastic frenzy -of these dreams, I thought that Clarence and I and a handful of -my cadets fought and exterminated the whole chivalry of England! -But even that was not the strangest. I seemed to be a creature -out of a remote unborn age, centuries hence, and even _that_ was -as real as the rest! Yes, I seemed to have flown back out of that -age into this of ours, and then forward to it again, and was set -down, a stranger and forlorn in that strange England, with an -abyss of thirteen centuries yawning between me and you! between -me and my home and my friends! between me and all that is dear -to me, all that could make life worth the living! It was awful ---awfuler than you can ever imagine, Sandy. Ah, watch by me, Sandy ---stay by me every moment--_don't_ let me go out of my mind again; -death is nothing, let it come, but not with those dreams, not with -the torture of those hideous dreams--I cannot endure _that_ again.... -Sandy?..." - -He lay muttering incoherently some little time; then for a time he -lay silent, and apparently sinking away toward death. Presently -his fingers began to pick busily at the coverlet, and by that sign -I knew that his end was at hand with the first suggestion of the -death-rattle in his throat he started up slightly, and seemed -to listen: then he said: - -"A bugle?... It is the king! The drawbridge, there! 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Sometimes that amount of time, given current computing power, is beyond the lifespan of the sun, but you could always catch a lucky break and find the key within a couple thousand years or so. - -You were able to solve some of the earlier problems because the limited key length gave you relationships between various points in the message that you could exploit to find the key. If the key length had been the same length as them message, however, those relationships would not be there. It would have been impossible, literally, for you to get the message back out even though it was encrypted using only a simple xor. A one time pad is a key such that each byte of the message is encrypted with it's own, entirely independent, on byte key. - -With a one time pad, you can't rely on any patterns or information in the text. That information simply no longer exists in the ciphertext without the key. The text can even be transformed into any string of the same length given a different key. You can design a key to do exactly that, for instance, turning an executable into a jpg of a kitten. - -There are a few weaknesses to a one time pad that tend to prevent it from being used. First, you need to distribute the key. Doing so reduces the security of the key to the method used to distribute it. Secondly, you can only use each key once, hence the name. Lets say you encrypted message A with key K using xor, and you also encrypted message B with the same key K in the same manner. If you xor both messages together, you get: - C = (A xor K) xor (B xor K) - C = A xor B xor K xor K - C = (A xor B) xor (K xor K) - C = (A xor B) xor 0 - C = A xor B - -If both A and B are a human language, you can use statistical techniques and a process of elimination to separate the two messages. If both the files are images, however, it would be pretty much impossible. - -Other Block Cipher Modes -======================== - -Cipher Block Chaining, Electronic Code Book, and Propagating Cipher Block Chaining modes all require a cipher function that has an inverse. The inverse function allows you to decrypt the ciphertext and get back the original message. - -What if, however, your original message was never an input to the cipher function? You could then use your cipher function as a generator of a new key for each byte of the message, giving you a pseudo one time pad. The cipher function in this case need not be reversible. It could be a complicated chunk of boolean logic that doesn't quite have a one-to-one input to output relationship, a random number generator (the key would be the seed), or any number of other creative methods. The output of this function would simply be combined with the message using a simple reversible function such as xor. - -There are several standard methods for doing this. One is to simply combine (xor) each byte of generated key with the plaintext, as is usually done with one time pads. Additionally, there are block cipher modes designed for this type of operation: the Cipher Feedback and Output Feedback modes. -![Cipher Feedback](CF.png) -![Output Feedback](OF.png) - -Decryption is simply a matter of generating the same sequence and re-applying the keys to the ciphertext (thus canceling out the key). - -Non-Reversible Functions -======================== - -Cipher Feedback and Output Feedback modes free you to use any deterministic function as your cipher, though some functions are obviously better than others. Just about any cryptographic hash function would work well. Deterministic random number generators would work well too; the key/IV would be the seed, and you could optionally re-seed the generator at each step. - -The Problem -=========== - -After reading that wall of text, you find yourself in the possession of this pcap. Working with your reverse engineer, you discover that the communications are encrypted using Output Feedback mode with md5 as the encryption algorithm, where the first byte of each hash is xor'ed with the plaintext. The first 16 bytes of the transmission appear to be the IV/key. diff --git a/packages/net-re/6300/CF.png b/packages/net-re/6300/CF.png deleted file mode 100644 index 4ef4577..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/6300/CF.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/6300/Makefile b/packages/net-re/6300/Makefile deleted file mode 100644 index 54ba8d2..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/6300/Makefile +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -all: - cp data.pcap *.png $(DESTDIR) diff --git a/packages/net-re/6300/OF.png b/packages/net-re/6300/OF.png deleted file mode 100644 index 2877d50..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/6300/OF.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/6300/clever_girl.jpg b/packages/net-re/6300/clever_girl.jpg deleted file mode 100644 index a8be6c5..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/6300/clever_girl.jpg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/6300/data.pcap b/packages/net-re/6300/data.pcap deleted file mode 100644 index 5853133..0000000 Binary files a/packages/net-re/6300/data.pcap and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/net-re/6300/sbox.txt b/packages/net-re/6300/sbox.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e69de29..0000000 diff --git a/packages/net-re/6300/sender.py b/packages/net-re/6300/sender.py deleted file mode 100644 index 92dd902..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/6300/sender.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,41 +0,0 @@ -from socket import * -from hashlib import md5 -import sys - -plaintext = open('clever_girl.jpg', 'rb').read() - -try: - src_port = int(sys.argv[1]) - dest_ip = sys.argv[2] - dest_port = int(sys.argv[3]) -except: - print "Usage: python sender.py src_port dest_ip dest_port" - sys.exit(1) - -key = 'why am I the key' -data = [ord(c) for c in plaintext] -ciphertext = [key] -hasher = md5(key) -for c in data: - digest = hasher.digest() - hasher.update(digest) - ciphertext.append(chr(c ^ ord(digest[0]))) -ciphertext = ''.join(ciphertext) -print ciphertext[:16] - -key = ciphertext[:16] -hasher = md5(key) -decrypted = [] -for c in ciphertext[16:]: - digest = hasher.digest() - hasher.update(digest) - decrypted.append(chr(ord(c) ^ ord(digest[0]))) -decrypted = ''.join(decrypted) - -assert decrypted == plaintext - -sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM) -addr = ("", src_port) -sock.bind((addr)) -sock.connect((dest_ip, dest_port)) -sock.send(ciphertext) diff --git a/packages/net-re/7/@answer.txt b/packages/net-re/7/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index c6faf04..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/7/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -60.0.13.65 diff --git a/packages/net-re/7/@index.mdwn b/packages/net-re/7/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 3b19b78..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/7/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,210 +0,0 @@ -More Binary Protocols -===================== - -The previous page introduced you to decoding binary protocols by showing -how DNS encodes text. We will now examine Ethernet, IP, and TCP, to -better understand binary protocols. - -Generally, you will use tools like wireshark or tcpdump to decode IP and -TCP, but understanding how these work will help you decode other unknown -binary protocols and file formats in the future. - -In this page, we will dissect the following captured network frame: - - 00 11 bc 56 5f 00 00 01 e8 13 0c 89 08 00 45 00 - 00 3c 13 b3 36 3a 3f 06 13 be 6a 56 5e af ef c9 - b0 04 17 af 00 50 cf 16 e8 db 00 00 00 00 a0 02 - 16 d0 ec 87 00 00 02 04 05 b4 04 02 08 0a 93 40 - fb 68 00 00 00 00 01 03 03 07 - - -Octets ------- - -This page introduces the new term “octet” to refer to 8 bits. The words -“octet” and “byte” are usually interchangeable, but in some cases a byte -may be 7 bits, 6 bits, 16 bits, or something else. Networking documents -usually refer to “octets” in order to avoid any confusion about the -number of bits. - - -Ethernet --------- - -Ethernet consists of: - -* Destination address (6 octets) -* Source address (6 octets) -* EtherType (2 octets) -* Data -* CRC Checksum (4 octets) - -Let’s examine the first 14 octets of our captured ethernet frame: - - 00 11 bc 56 5f 00 00 01 e8 13 0c 89 08 00 - -This can be broken down into the two 6-octet addresses and the EtherType: - - dst: 00:11:bc:56:5f:00 - src: 00:01:e8:13:0c:89 - typ: 0800 - -The destination and source should be recognizable as “MAC addresses”. -An EtherType of 0x0800 indicates the data is an IPv4 packet. Most -frames you encounter will have an EtherType of 0x0800. - - -Internet Protocol (IP version 4) --------------------------------- - -IP introduces to us the notion of 4-bit and 13-bit integers. The -following chart from RFC 971 shows the fields of an IP header. The -numbers at the top are the *bit* offset of each field. - - 0 1 2 3 - 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 - +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ - |Version| IHL |Type of Service| Total Length | - +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ - | Identification |Flags| Fragment Offset | - +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ - | Time to Live | Protocol | Header Checksum | - +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ - | Source Address | - +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ - | Destination Address | - +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ - | Options | Padding | - +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ - -The next few octets of our network frame are: - - __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 45 00 - 00 3c 13 b3 36 3a 3f 06 13 be 6a 56 5e af ef c9 - b0 04 17 af 00 50 cf 16 e8 db 00 00 - -Let’s begin to break this down. The first two fields are 4-bit -integers: half-octets, also called nybbles (because they are half a -byte). These are easy to extract from hex, since one hex digit is -exactly 4 bits. Similarly, one octet is 8 bits, and two hex digits. -Two octets is 16 bits, and four hex digits. - - Version: 0x4 - IHL: 0x5 - TOS: 0x00 - Length: 0x003c - ID: 0x13b3 - -Leaving our undecoded snippet as follows: - - __ __ __ __ 36 3a 3f 06 13 be 6a 56 5e af ef c9 - b0 04 17 af 00 50 cf 16 e8 db 00 00 - -The next field, “Flags”, is a *3-bit* field, leaving 13 bits for -“Fragment Offset”. Let’s look at the next 16 bits: - - 3 6 3 A - 0011 0110 0011 1010 - -Now let’s split that up after the first three bits: - - 1 1 6 3 A - 001 1 0110 0011 1010 - -Therefore, our first three bits are the hex value bits are the hex value -`0x1`, and the remaining 16 bits are the hex value `0x163A`. - - Flags: 0x1 - Fragment Offset: 0x163A - -The next few fields are relatively simple: - - TTL: 0x3F - Protocol: 0x06 - Header Checksum: 0x13BE - -Now our snippet is: - - __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 6a 56 5e af ef c9 - b0 04 17 af 00 50 cf 16 e8 db 00 00 - -Finally, we get to the IP addresses: - - Src: 6a.56.5e.af (106.86.94.175) - Dst: ef.c9.b0.04 (239.201.176.4) - -We have now decoded 20 octets, or 4 words. The IHL field contains the -length of the IP header in words. Since IHL in this frame is 4, this IP -header has no options, and we are done decoding it. All remaining data -belongs to the TCP protocol (protocol 6). - - -Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) ------------------------------------ - - 0 1 2 3 - 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 - +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ - | Source Port | Destination Port | - +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ - | Sequence Number | - +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ - | Acknowledgment Number | - +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ - | Data | |U|A|P|R|S|F| | - | Offset| Reserved |R|C|S|S|Y|I| Window | - | | |G|K|H|T|N|N| | - +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ - | Checksum | Urgent Pointer | - +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ - | Options | Padding | - +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ - | data | - +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ - -After parsing the Ethernet and IP headers, our frame’s unparsed octets -are: - - __ __ 17 af 00 50 cf 16 e8 db 00 00 00 00 a0 02 - 16 d0 ec 87 00 00 02 04 05 b4 04 02 08 0a 93 40 - fb 68 00 00 00 00 01 03 03 07 - -The first 4 fields are decoded just like previous fields: - - Src: 0x17AF (6063) - Dst: 0x0050 (80) - Seq: 0xcf16e8db - Ack: 0x00000000 - -We can now examine the next 2 octets to extract Data Offset and the -flags: - - a 0 0 2 - 1000 0000 0000 0010 - offs|reserv UA PRSF - RC SSYI - GK HTNN - -Decoding to: - - Data Offset: 0xA - Flags: SYN - -Then, carrying on: - - Window: 0x16D0 - Checksum: 0xEC87 - Urgent: 0x0000 - -There follows 20 bytes of options, and no data. - - -Question -======== - -The key for this page is the source IP in the following frame: - - 00 11 bc 56 5f 00 00 01 e8 13 0c 89 08 00 45 00 - 00 2c 00 00 40 00 3d 06 aa 51 3c 00 0d 41 4d 01 - 08 30 c6 d6 d2 e6 06 57 7b 2d 00 76 d2 c9 60 12 - 16 d0 84 c5 00 00 02 04 05 b4 00 00 diff --git a/packages/net-re/7/@summary.txt b/packages/net-re/7/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 8c3efbf..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/7/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -IP, TCP diff --git a/packages/net-re/700/@answer.txt b/packages/net-re/700/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 06796b9..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/700/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -fixate rasterize diff --git a/packages/net-re/700/@index.mdwn b/packages/net-re/700/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 02b218f..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/700/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,32 +0,0 @@ - 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-Exclusive or (XOR, ⊕) is the binary operation “one or the other but not -both”. The following table demonstrates how a binary XOR works: - - p q p⊕q - --------- - 0 0 0 - 0 1 1 - 1 0 1 - 1 1 0 - -To XOR two multi-bit numbers, one must simply XOR each bit individually: - - 11110000 - ⊕ 10101010 - ========== - 01011010 - - -Reversing XOR -------------- - -XOR has the peculiar property that `(p⊕q)⊕q = p` for any value of `p` or `q`: - - p q p⊕q (p⊕q)⊕q - ------------------ - 0 0 0 0 - 0 1 1 0 - 1 0 1 1 - 1 1 0 1 - -This also works for multi-bit numbers: - - 11110000 (0xF0) - ⊕ 10101010 (0xAA) - ========== - 01011010 (0x9A) - - 01011010 (0x9A) - ⊕ 10101010 (0xAA) - ========== - 11110000 (0xF0) - - -XOR in encryption ------------------ - -XOR is used extensively in many encryption algorithms. One reason it is -popular is because it is easy to implement in hardware, since there is -no possibility for overflow or underflow, there are no “carry” bits as -in addition, and XOR is one of the basic logic gates used in -electronics. For these reasons, it is also one of the quickest -operations most CPUs can carry out. - -One of the most basic ways to use XOR in encryption is to XOR the -plaintext (the thing to be encrypted) against the key: - - ATTACK AT DAWN - ⊕ keykeykeykeyke - ================ - *1-*&2K$-K!8<+ - -Because of the reversible nature of XOR, the same key can be applied to -decrypt the ciphertext: - - *1-*&2K$-K!8<+ - ⊕ keykeykeykeyke - ================ - ATTACK AT DAWN - - -Doing XOR on strings in Python ------------------------------- - -The following function in Python 3: - - def xor(n, b): - return bytes(c ^ n for c in b) - -Will take a byte array, and return it XORed with n. - -Let's try an example: - - >>> def xor(n, b): - ... return bytes(c ^ n for c in b) - ... - >>> xor(22, b'hello') - b'~szzy' - >>> xor(22, b'~szzy') - b'hello' - >>> xor(22, bytes([0, 1, 2, 3, 4])) - b'\x16\x17\x14\x15\x12' - >>> - -We will use this last method of invoking xor in the following sections, -to work with hex dumps. - - -Converting hex strings to byte arrays -------------------------------------- - -The following Python 3 function will take an ASCII representation of hex -octets, and convert it to a byte array: - - >>> def unhex(s): - ... import binascii - ... return binascii.unhexlify(s.replace(' ', '').replace('\n', '')) - - -Known-plaintext attacks against XOR encryption ----------------------------------------------- - -We have intercepted a coded message. We suspect the plaintext to -consist solely of ASCII characters. The hex dump of the message is: - - - 00000000 69 62 65 0a 7d 6f 0a 78 0a 79 7f 61 0a 6c 63 72 ┆ibe◙}o◙x◙y⌂a◙lcr┆ - 00000010 0a 67 19 0a 6d 1a 6b 7e 70 ┆◙g↓◙m→k~p┆ - 00000019 - -Right away we can see that the character ◙ (`0x0A`) occurs fairly -frequently. We will first guess that `0x0A` represents the letter “e”, -which is the most common letter in English. To find the XOR key needed -to turn turn “e” (`0x65`) into `0x0A`, we can simply XOR the two values: - - 0x65 (e) - ⊕ 0x0A (◙) - ====== - 0x6F (o) - -Let’s try applying the XOR key `0x6F` to the ciphertext. First, we will -load the hex octets into a Python 3 byte array using our `unhex` -function from the previous section: - - >>> a = unhex('69 62 65 0a 7d 6f 0a 78 0a 79 7f 61 0a 6c 63 72') + \ - ... unhex('0a 67 19 0a 6d 1a 6b 7e 70') - >>> a - b'ibe\n}o\nx\ny\x7fa\nlcr\ng\x19\nm\x1ak~p' - -Now, we'll xor it with our guess of `0x6F`: - >>> xor(0x6F, a) - b'\x06\r\ne\x12\x00e\x17e\x16\x10\x0ee\x03\x0c\x1de\x08ve\x02u\x04\x11\x1f' - -That doesn't look right. Let's try another guess, maybe ◙ represents a space: - - 0x20 ( ) - ⊕ 0x0A (◙) - ====== - 0x2A (*) - -Now we apply this key: - - >>> xor(0x2A, a) - b'CHO WE R SUK FIX M3 G0ATZ' - -This is clearly English text, although possibly some sort of code. In -any case, we have broken the code with the key `0x2A`. - - -Question -======== - -Use the known-plaintext attack technique against this XORed cyphertext: - - 00000000 01 2d 2c 25 30 23 36 37 2e 23 36 2b 2d 2c 31 62 ┆☺-,%0#67.#6+-,1b┆ - 00000010 2d 2c 62 3b 2d 37 30 62 20 30 27 23 29 6c 62 62 ┆-,b;-70b␣0'#)lbb┆ - 00000020 16 2a 27 62 29 27 3b 62 24 2d 30 62 36 2a 2b 31 ┆▬*'b)';b$-0b6*+1┆ - 00000030 62 32 23 25 27 62 2b 31 62 60 20 23 21 2d 2c 60 ┆b2#%'b+1b`␣#!-,`┆ - 00000040 6c ┆l┆ - 00000041 diff --git a/packages/net-re/8/@summary.txt b/packages/net-re/8/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 0ffbeaf..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/8/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -XOR masks diff --git a/packages/net-re/800/@answer.txt b/packages/net-re/800/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 1724b8b..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/800/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -10.72.148.66 diff --git a/packages/net-re/800/@index.mdwn b/packages/net-re/800/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 14e85d8..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/800/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,26 +0,0 @@ -What is the IP address of `bungle.dirtbags.net`? - - 18:59:44.128730 IP 67.18.176.203.50495 > 67.18.176.203.domain - 0x0000: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0800 4500 ..............E. - 0x0010: 0041 15e8 4000 4011 3d09 4312 b0cb 4312 .A..@.@.=.C...C. - 0x0020: b0cb c53f 0035 002d ebb4 11d4 0100 0001 ...?.5.-........ - 0x0030: 0000 0000 0000 0662 756e 676c 6508 6469 .......bungle.di - 0x0040: 7274 6261 6773 036e 6574 0000 0100 01 rtbags.net..... - 18:59:44.128786 IP 67.18.176.203.domain > 67.18.176.203.50495 - 0x0000: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0800 4500 ..............E. - 0x0010: 00fb 0000 4000 4011 5237 4312 b0cb 4312 ....@.@.R7C...C. - 0x0020: b0cb 0035 c53f 00e7 2b3b 11d4 8500 0001 ...5.?..+;...... - 0x0030: 0001 0005 0005 0662 756e 676c 6508 6469 .......bungle.di - 0x0040: 7274 6261 6773 036e 6574 0000 0100 01c0 rtbags.net...... - 0x0050: 0c00 0100 0100 000e 1000 040a 4894 42c0 ............H.B. - 0x0060: 1300 0200 0100 000e 1000 0603 6e73 31c0 ............ns1. - 0x0070: 13c0 1300 0200 0100 000e 1000 0603 6e73 ..............ns - 0x0080: 32c0 13c0 1300 0200 0100 000e 1000 0603 2............... - 0x0090: 6e73 33c0 13c0 1300 0200 0100 000e 1000 ns3............. - 0x00a0: 0603 6e73 34c0 13c0 1300 0200 0100 000e ..ns4........... - 0x00b0: 1000 0603 6e73 35c0 13c0 4100 0100 0100 ....ns5...A..... - 0x00c0: 000e 1000 0443 12b0 cbc0 5300 0100 0100 .....C....S..... - 0x00d0: 000e 1000 0445 5d7f 0ac0 6500 0100 0100 .....E]...e..... - 0x00e0: 000e 1000 0441 13b2 0ac0 7700 0100 0100 .....A....w..... - 0x00f0: 000e 1000 044b 7f60 0ac0 8900 0100 0100 .....K.`........ - 0x0100: 000e 1000 04cf c046 0a .......F. diff --git a/packages/net-re/800/@summary.txt b/packages/net-re/800/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index d81cce5..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/800/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -DNS packet; you're going to have to do some research diff --git a/packages/net-re/net-re.mk b/packages/net-re/net-re.mk deleted file mode 100644 index f1a0e0d..0000000 --- a/packages/net-re/net-re.mk +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -$(eval $(call STANDARD_PUZZLE, net-re)) diff --git a/packages/sequence/1/@answer.txt b/packages/sequence/1/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 1e8b314..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/1/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -6 diff --git a/packages/sequence/1/@index.mdwn b/packages/sequence/1/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index dd0e891..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/1/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ - 1 2 3 4 5 _ diff --git a/packages/sequence/1/@summary.txt b/packages/sequence/1/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 684ae76..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/1/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Count to 6 diff --git a/packages/sequence/100/@answer.txt b/packages/sequence/100/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index d851813..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/100/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -47 4e -47 4E - diff --git a/packages/sequence/100/@index.mdwn b/packages/sequence/100/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 0ee7de4..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/100/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ - 32 33 35 38 3c 41 _ _ - diff --git a/packages/sequence/100/@summary.txt b/packages/sequence/100/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 1d959df..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/100/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -f(n) = 0x32 + f(n-1) + n diff --git a/packages/sequence/1000/.create.py b/packages/sequence/1000/.create.py deleted file mode 100755 index 77ea0ce..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/1000/.create.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ -#! /usr/bin/python - -import struct -import random -import sys - -def packet(seq, txt): - return struct.pack('!HB', seq, len(txt)) + txt - -key = open("key").read().strip() - -i = 0 -seq = 83 -packets = [] -while i < len(key): - l = random.randrange(5)+1 - p = packet(seq, key[i:i+l]) - packets.append(p) - i += l - seq += 1 - -random.shuffle(packets) -sys.stdout.write(''.join(packets)) - diff --git a/packages/sequence/1000/@answer.txt b/packages/sequence/1000/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index a4ea8f7..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/1000/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -toddled reciprocation deposit excavators diff --git a/packages/sequence/1000/@index.mdwn b/packages/sequence/1000/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 7aed996..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/1000/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -No more blanks! From now on you must use techniques from previous -puzzles to resequence the answer. - - 00000000 00 5e 03 6f 72 73 00 57 04 72 6f 63 61 00 56 05 |.^.ors.W.roca.V.| - 00000010 72 65 63 69 70 00 5d 05 63 61 76 61 74 00 5b 01 |recip.].cavat.[.| - 00000020 73 00 5c 05 69 74 20 65 78 00 59 05 69 6f 6e 20 |s.\.it ex.Y.ion | - 00000030 64 00 54 02 65 64 00 5a 03 65 70 6f 00 58 01 74 |d.T.ed.Z.epo.X.t| - 00000040 00 53 05 74 6f 64 64 6c 00 55 01 20 |.S.toddl.U. | - 0000004c - diff --git a/packages/sequence/1000/@summary.txt b/packages/sequence/1000/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e95135b..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/1000/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Reassemble transactions based on sequence numbers diff --git a/packages/sequence/16/@answer.txt b/packages/sequence/16/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index aa00f2f..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/16/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -a -A diff --git a/packages/sequence/16/@index.mdwn b/packages/sequence/16/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index d2caefa..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/16/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ - 5 6 7 8 9 _ diff --git a/packages/sequence/16/@summary.txt b/packages/sequence/16/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 59aef1b..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/16/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Hex diff --git a/packages/sequence/19/@answer.txt b/packages/sequence/19/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 98d9bcb..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/19/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -17 diff --git a/packages/sequence/19/@index.mdwn b/packages/sequence/19/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index ee8cdc1..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/19/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ - 1 2 3 5 7 11 13 _ diff --git a/packages/sequence/19/@summary.txt b/packages/sequence/19/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index c3153dd..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/19/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Primes diff --git a/packages/sequence/2/@answer.txt b/packages/sequence/2/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 9c657f0..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/2/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -111 1000 diff --git a/packages/sequence/2/@index.mdwn b/packages/sequence/2/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 88b06fc..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/2/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ - 1 10 11 100 101 110 _ _ diff --git a/packages/sequence/2/@summary.txt b/packages/sequence/2/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 3944618..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/2/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Binary diff --git a/packages/sequence/200/@answer.txt b/packages/sequence/200/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 50ab5ed..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/200/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -E G G -EGG diff --git a/packages/sequence/200/@index.mdwn b/packages/sequence/200/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index b320eaa..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/200/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ - E D C D E E E . 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diff --git a/packages/sequence/400/@index.mdwn b/packages/sequence/400/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index a4ba65f..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/400/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ - 45 60 b1 a4 7d _ _ diff --git a/packages/sequence/400/@summary.txt b/packages/sequence/400/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 2f9532d..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/400/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -f(n) = f(n-1) + 3^n diff --git a/packages/sequence/4000/@answer.txt b/packages/sequence/4000/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index a67a1b2..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/4000/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -enjoy delicious salad diff --git a/packages/sequence/4000/@index.mdwn b/packages/sequence/4000/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 40bff5d..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/4000/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -This time, you can run the `hd` program on your own. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/sequence/4000/Makefile b/packages/sequence/4000/Makefile deleted file mode 100644 index c7aecea..0000000 --- a/packages/sequence/4000/Makefile +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4 +0,0 @@ -install: generate.py salad.jpg - 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-packages/sequence/%/clean: - $(MAKE) -C $(@D) clean diff --git a/packages/skynet/100/@answer.txt b/packages/skynet/100/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 9710187..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/100/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -bbeagle.exe diff --git a/packages/skynet/100/@index.mdwn b/packages/skynet/100/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 2731c51..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/100/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@ -This category contains live samples of real malware. If you participate -in this category, you agree to take all proper precautions: running in -a virtual machine, properly cleaning your system afterwards, and not -exposing any networks to these samples. - -YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! - -A user complains that their computer is slow and that all of their -email contacts are receving junk email from them. You find a file on -their system. Reverse engineer this file and answer the following -question: - -What is the name of the file that is copied to the system directory? -(Answer is lowercase, and only the name of the file) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/skynet/100/malware.zip b/packages/skynet/100/malware.zip deleted file mode 100644 index e84b564..0000000 Binary files a/packages/skynet/100/malware.zip and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/skynet/102/@answer.txt b/packages/skynet/102/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 1584a27..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/102/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -beagle_beagle diff --git a/packages/skynet/102/@index.mdwn b/packages/skynet/102/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 60c331f..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/102/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ -This category contains live samples of real malware. If you participate -in this category, you agree to take all proper precautions: running in -a virtual machine, properly cleaning your system afterwards, and not -exposing any networks to these samples. - -YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! - -A user complains that their computer is slow and that all of their -email contacts are receving junk email from them. You find a file on -their system. Reverse engineer this file and answer the following -question: - -What is the agent string sent to the call-home website? diff --git a/packages/skynet/102/malware.zip b/packages/skynet/102/malware.zip deleted file mode 100644 index e84b564..0000000 Binary files a/packages/skynet/102/malware.zip and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/skynet/200/@answer.txt b/packages/skynet/200/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e46ab34..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/200/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -402fcc diff --git a/packages/skynet/200/@index.mdwn b/packages/skynet/200/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 3e040a8..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/200/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@ -This category contains live samples of real malware. If you participate -in this category, you agree to take all proper precautions: running in -a virtual machine, properly cleaning your system afterwards, and not -exposing any networks to these samples. - -YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! - -Your network is not working. The cheap routers that the network -engineers decided to buy (largely because of all the free booze -and golf trips the vendor paid for) are melting. Reverse engineer this -file and answer the following question: - -What is the original entry point (OEP)? -(Answer in all lower case, enter the virtual address in hex) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/skynet/200/malware.zip b/packages/skynet/200/malware.zip deleted file mode 100644 index 0a969b0..0000000 Binary files a/packages/skynet/200/malware.zip and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/skynet/202/@answer.txt b/packages/skynet/202/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 63cfc22..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/202/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -tftp diff --git a/packages/skynet/202/@index.mdwn b/packages/skynet/202/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index fe92ea3..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/202/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@ -This category contains live samples of real malware. If you participate -in this category, you agree to take all proper precautions: running in -a virtual machine, properly cleaning your system afterwards, and not -exposing any networks to these samples. - -YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! - -Your network is not working. The cheap routers that the network -engineers decided to buy (largely because of all the free booze -and golf trips the vendor paid for) are melting. Reverse engineer this -file and answer the following question: - -How does the program deliver its payload after the initial exploitation? -(Answer in all lower case) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/skynet/202/malware.zip b/packages/skynet/202/malware.zip deleted file mode 100644 index 0a969b0..0000000 Binary files a/packages/skynet/202/malware.zip and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/skynet/203/@answer.txt b/packages/skynet/203/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 322b67a..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/203/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -FreeConsole diff --git a/packages/skynet/203/@index.mdwn b/packages/skynet/203/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index cae30d0..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/203/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ -This category contains live samples of real malware. If you participate -in this category, you agree to take all proper precautions: running in -a virtual machine, properly cleaning your system afterwards, and not -exposing any networks to these samples. - -YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! - -Your network is not working. The cheap routers that the network -engineers decided to buy (largely because of all the free booze -and golf trips the vendor paid for) are melting. Reverse engineer this -file and answer the following question: - -What is the name of the first Windows API executed after unpacking? diff --git a/packages/skynet/203/malware.zip b/packages/skynet/203/malware.zip deleted file mode 100644 index 0a969b0..0000000 Binary files a/packages/skynet/203/malware.zip and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/skynet/300/@answer.txt b/packages/skynet/300/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 40b7a6a..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/300/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -pecompact diff --git a/packages/skynet/300/@index.mdwn b/packages/skynet/300/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 2b76225..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/300/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@ -This category contains live samples of real malware. If you participate -in this category, you agree to take all proper precautions: running in -a virtual machine, properly cleaning your system afterwards, and not -exposing any networks to these samples. - -YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! - -Your network is not working. The cheap routers that the network -engineers decided to buy (largely because of all the free booze -and golf trips the vendor paid for) are melting. Reverse engineer this -file and answer the following question: - -What is the name of the packer used to obfuscate this program? -(Answer in lower case) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/skynet/300/malware.zip b/packages/skynet/300/malware.zip deleted file mode 100644 index e83064e..0000000 Binary files a/packages/skynet/300/malware.zip and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/skynet/301/@answer.txt b/packages/skynet/301/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index c22deab..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/301/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -4028de diff --git a/packages/skynet/301/@index.mdwn b/packages/skynet/301/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index f887ae6..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/301/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@ -This category contains live samples of real malware. If you participate -in this category, you agree to take all proper precautions: running in -a virtual machine, properly cleaning your system afterwards, and not -exposing any networks to these samples. - -YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! - -Your network is not working. The cheap routers that the network -engineers decided to buy (largely because of all the free booze -and golf trips the vendor paid for) are melting. Reverse engineer this -file and answer the following question: - -What is the address of the original entry point? -(Answer in all lower case, enter the virtual address in hex) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/skynet/301/malware.zip b/packages/skynet/301/malware.zip deleted file mode 100644 index e83064e..0000000 Binary files a/packages/skynet/301/malware.zip and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/skynet/302/@answer.txt b/packages/skynet/302/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 18d2446..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/302/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -SkynetSasserVersionWithPingFast diff --git a/packages/skynet/302/@index.mdwn b/packages/skynet/302/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index ef48518..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/302/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ -This category contains live samples of real malware. If you participate -in this category, you agree to take all proper precautions: running in -a virtual machine, properly cleaning your system afterwards, and not -exposing any networks to these samples. - -YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! - -Your network is not working. The cheap routers that the network -engineers decided to buy (largely because of all the free booze -and golf trips the vendor paid for) are melting. Reverse engineer this -file and answer the following question: - -What is the name of the second executed mutex? diff --git a/packages/skynet/302/malware.zip b/packages/skynet/302/malware.zip deleted file mode 100644 index e83064e..0000000 Binary files a/packages/skynet/302/malware.zip and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/skynet/400/@answer.txt b/packages/skynet/400/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 387eac7..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/400/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -services.exe diff --git a/packages/skynet/400/@index.mdwn b/packages/skynet/400/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 6ff0aea..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/400/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ -This category contains live samples of real malware. If you participate -in this category, you agree to take all proper precautions: running in -a virtual machine, properly cleaning your system afterwards, and not -exposing any networks to these samples. - -YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! - -A user is complaining of random blue screens. Their computer is -running slowly. When you inspect the system you find a file named -malware.sys. Reverse engineer it and answer the following question. - -What user mode process does the kernel module inject into? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/skynet/400/malware.zip b/packages/skynet/400/malware.zip deleted file mode 100644 index 64d19cd..0000000 Binary files a/packages/skynet/400/malware.zip and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/skynet/401/@answer.txt b/packages/skynet/401/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 622d880..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/401/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -67678dj*&78 diff --git a/packages/skynet/401/@index.mdwn b/packages/skynet/401/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index b9829d1..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/401/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ -This category contains live samples of real malware. If you participate -in this category, you agree to take all proper precautions: running in -a virtual machine, properly cleaning your system afterwards, and not -exposing any networks to these samples. - -YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! - -A user is complaining of random blue screens. Their computer is -running slowly. When you inspect the system you find a file named -malware.sys. Reverse engineer it and answer the following question. - -What is the name of the DeviceObject for the kernel code? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/skynet/401/malware.zip b/packages/skynet/401/malware.zip deleted file mode 100644 index 64d19cd..0000000 Binary files a/packages/skynet/401/malware.zip and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/skynet/500/@answer.txt b/packages/skynet/500/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 6197846..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/500/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -c:\windows\system32:lzx32.sys - diff --git a/packages/skynet/500/@index.mdwn b/packages/skynet/500/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 28d6a42..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/500/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ -This category contains live samples of real malware. If you participate -in this category, you agree to take all proper precautions: running in -a virtual machine, properly cleaning your system afterwards, and not -exposing any networks to these samples. - -YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! - -A user complains that they are getting complaints of mass amounts of -penny stock scam emails coming from their computer. You happen to -extract this file from your network captures. - -What is the name of the file that is written to disk by this sample? -Enter your answer with all lower-case letters. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/skynet/500/laststage-unpacker.exe b/packages/skynet/500/laststage-unpacker.exe deleted file mode 100644 index db42b4f..0000000 Binary files a/packages/skynet/500/laststage-unpacker.exe and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/skynet/500/malware.zip b/packages/skynet/500/malware.zip deleted file mode 100644 index 759c395..0000000 Binary files a/packages/skynet/500/malware.zip and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/skynet/501/@answer.txt b/packages/skynet/501/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 0c48c6d..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/501/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -kdD diff --git a/packages/skynet/501/@index.mdwn b/packages/skynet/501/@index.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 7285ef0..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/501/@index.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,15 +0,0 @@ -This category contains live samples of real malware. If you participate -in this category, you agree to take all proper precautions: running in -a virtual machine, properly cleaning your system afterwards, and not -exposing any networks to these samples. - -YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! - -A user complains that they are getting complaints of mass amounts of -penny stock scam emails coming from their computer. You happen to -extract this file from your network captures. - -You'll need the previously dropped file for this exercise. - -What is the tag identifier for the ExAllocatePoolWithTag? -(enter the ascii text) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/skynet/501/laststage-unpacker.exe b/packages/skynet/501/laststage-unpacker.exe deleted file mode 100644 index db42b4f..0000000 Binary files a/packages/skynet/501/laststage-unpacker.exe and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/skynet/501/malware.zip b/packages/skynet/501/malware.zip deleted file mode 100644 index 759c395..0000000 Binary files a/packages/skynet/501/malware.zip and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/skynet/skynet.mk b/packages/skynet/skynet.mk deleted file mode 100644 index 3ee30db..0000000 --- a/packages/skynet/skynet.mk +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -$(eval $(call STANDARD_PUZZLE, skynet)) diff --git a/packages/steg/10/@answer.txt b/packages/steg/10/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index c7b867a..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/10/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Molotov Cocktails diff --git a/packages/steg/10/@summary.txt b/packages/steg/10/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 8bddff9..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/10/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -after JPEG footer diff --git a/packages/steg/10/Makefile b/packages/steg/10/Makefile deleted file mode 100644 index 07a7b38..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/10/Makefile +++ /dev/null @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@ -IMG = http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/images/2008/02/11/bunny.jpg - -install: file.jpg - cp $< $(DESTDIR)/$$(md5sum $< | awk '{print $$1;}') - -src.jpg: - wget -O src.jpg $(IMG) - -file.jpg: src.jpg - cat src.jpg > $@ - m4 -DKEY="$(shell cat key)" text.txt >> $@ - -clean: - rm -f file.jpg diff --git a/packages/steg/10/src.jpg b/packages/steg/10/src.jpg deleted file mode 100644 index 3e9772a..0000000 Binary files a/packages/steg/10/src.jpg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/steg/10/text.txt b/packages/steg/10/text.txt deleted file mode 100644 index cdf1fd3..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/10/text.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,36 +0,0 @@ -There are many variations of the molotov cocktail. The classic is a -glass bottle filled with gasoline. An oily soaked rag is placed in the -neck of the bottle. The rag is lit on fire and the bottle is thrown at -the opposition. However, practice has created new models of the molotov -that defeat the classic version. - -When making molotovs, it is never a good idea to use the oily rag -method. It can allow gas to seep from the bottle and many other bad -things. The best way is to take a tampon that is soaked in gas and place -it on the side of the bottle neck. Then, tie a rubber band around the -tampon. Make sure the bottle has a cap on it. Light the tampon and throw -hard. With this ignition method, the bottle must break! - -When making a molotov mixture, one of the easiest mixtures is filling -half the bottle with gasoline, and the other half of the bottle with -motor oil. Mix well! The oil is very flammable and sticks very well to -the surface that it lands on. - -Another mixture is to fill half the bottle with gasoline and the other -half with tar. This mixture burns very very hot and also sticks well to -surfaces while the gasoline does the work. - -To make a firewall, simply fill bottles with rubbing alcohol and light -the mixture. These bottles should be lined up side by side to create a -large area of fire that police will not walk through. - -By far the stickiest mixture is 50% gasoline, with 25% tar and 25% -grease. Shake well and throw hard! - -The most high explosive and lethal mixture is amonium-nitrate-based -fertilizer mixed with gasoline. Just stuff the bottle with this mixture -and light the sucker. This method should be made with a plastic bottle -so that it will not break on impact. When you light it, the bottle will -quickly explode so be quick. Using a fuse is a good idea. - -"KEY" is the key. diff --git a/packages/steg/100/@answer.txt b/packages/steg/100/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index aa39b51..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/100/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -breadfruit chawbacon diff --git a/packages/steg/100/@summary.txt b/packages/steg/100/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 8a95e46..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/100/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -low-order bits diff --git a/packages/steg/100/Makefile b/packages/steg/100/Makefile deleted file mode 100644 index fe00ebc..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/100/Makefile +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ -.DELETE_ON_ERROR: - -install: file.png - cp $< $(DESTDIR)/$$(md5sum $< | awk '{print $$1;}') - -%.pbm: %.png - pngtopnm $< > $@ - -%.png: %.pnm - pnmtopng $< > $@ - -file.pnm: lena.pbm text.txt - m4 -DKEY="$(shell cat key)" text.txt | ./encode 3< $< > $@ - -clean: - rm -f file.pnm file.png lena.pbm diff --git a/packages/steg/100/encode b/packages/steg/100/encode deleted file mode 100755 index 79e9434..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/100/encode +++ /dev/null @@ -1,34 +0,0 @@ -#! /usr/bin/python - -import os -import sys -import md5 -import cStringIO as StringIO - -plaintext = sys.stdin -inf = os.fdopen(3) - -outf = sys.stdout -for i in range(3): - outf.write(inf.readline()) - -# Set the low-order bits in output file -i = 0 -while True: - c = plaintext.read(1) - if c: - c = ord(c) - else: - c = 0 - img_bytes = inf.read(8) - if not img_bytes: - break - if len(img_bytes) < 8: - outf.write(img_bytes) - break - for j in range(8): - bit = 7 - j - img_byte = ord(img_bytes[j]) & 0xFE - noise_bit = (c & (1<> bit - out_byte = img_byte | noise_bit - outf.write(chr(out_byte)) diff --git a/packages/steg/100/lena.png b/packages/steg/100/lena.png deleted file mode 100644 index 2d7b780..0000000 Binary files a/packages/steg/100/lena.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/steg/100/text.txt b/packages/steg/100/text.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 9bb747a..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/100/text.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,195 +0,0 @@ - Out of love for the truth and the desire to bring it to light, the following propositions will be discussed at Wittenberg, under the presidency of the Reverend Father Martin Luther, Master of Arts and of Sacred Theology, and Lecturer in Ordinary on the same at that place. Wherefore he requests that those who are unable to be present and debate orally with us, may do so by letter. - - In the Name our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. - - 1. Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, when He said Poenitentiam agite, willed that the whole life of believers should be repentance. - - 2. This word cannot be understood to mean sacramental penance, i.e., confession and satisfaction, which is administered by the priests. - - 3. Yet it means not inward repentance only; nay, there is no inward repentance which does not outwardly work divers mortifications of the flesh. - - 4. The penalty [of sin], therefore, continues so long as hatred of self continues; for this is the true inward repentance, and continues until our entrance into the kingdom of heaven. - - 5. The pope does not intend to remit, and cannot remit any penalties other than those which he has imposed either by his own authority or by that of the Canons. - - 6. The pope cannot remit any guilt, except by declaring that it has been remitted by God and by assenting to God's remission; though, to be sure, he may grant remission in cases reserved to his judgment. If his right to grant remission in such cases were despised, the guilt would remain entirely unforgiven. - - 7. God remits guilt to no one whom He does not, at the same time, humble in all things and bring into subjection to His vicar, the priest. - - 8. The penitential canons are imposed only on the living, and, according to them, nothing should be imposed on the dying. - - 9. Therefore the Holy Spirit in the pope is kind to us, because in his decrees he always makes exception of the article of death and of necessity. - - 10. Ignorant and wicked are the doings of those priests who, in the case of the dying, reserve canonical penances for purgatory. - - 11. This changing of the canonical penalty to the penalty of purgatory is quite evidently one of the tares that were sown while the bishops slept. - - 12. In former times the canonical penalties were imposed not after, but before absolution, as tests of true contrition. - - 13. The dying are freed by death from all penalties; they are already dead to canonical rules, and have a right to be released from them. - - 14. The imperfect health [of soul], that is to say, the imperfect love, of the dying brings with it, of necessity, great fear; and the smaller the love, the greater is the fear. - - 15. This fear and horror is sufficient of itself alone (to say nothing of other things) to constitute the penalty of purgatory, since it is very near to the horror of despair. - - 16. Hell, purgatory, and heaven seem to differ as do despair, almost-despair, and the assurance of safety. - - 17. With souls in purgatory it seems necessary that horror should grow less and love increase. - - 18. It seems unproved, either by reason or Scripture, that they are outside the state of merit, that is to say, of increasing love. - - 19. Again, it seems unproved that they, or at least that all of them, are certain or assured of their own blessedness, though we may be quite certain of it. - - 20. Therefore by "full remission of all penalties" the pope means not actually "of all," but only of those imposed by himself. - - 21. Therefore those preachers of indulgences are in error, who say that by the pope's indulgences a man is freed from every penalty, and saved; - - 22. Whereas he remits to souls in purgatory no penalty which, according to the canons, they would have had to pay in this life. - - 23. If it is at all possible to grant to any one the remission of all penalties whatsoever, it is certain that this remission can be granted only to the most perfect, that is, to the very fewest. - - 24. It must needs be, therefore, that the greater part of the people are deceived by that indiscriminate and highsounding promise of release from penalty. - - 25. The power which the pope has, in a general way, over purgatory, is just like the power which any bishop or curate has, in a special way, within his own diocese or parish. - - 26. The pope does well when he grants remission to souls [in purgatory], not by the power of the keys (which he does not possess), but by way of intercession. - - 27. They preach man who say that so soon as the penny jingles into the money-box, the soul flies out [of purgatory]. - - 28. It is certain that when the penny jingles into the money-box, gain and avarice can be increased, but the result of the intercession of the Church is in the power of God alone. - - 29. Who knows whether all the souls in purgatory wish to be bought out of it, as in the legend of Sts. Severinus and Paschal. - - 30. No one is sure that his own contrition is sincere; much less that he has attained full remission. - - 31. Rare as is the man that is truly penitent, so rare is also the man who truly buys indulgences, i.e., such men are most rare. - - 32. They will be condemned eternally, together with their teachers, who believe themselves sure of their salvation because they have letters of pardon. - - 33. Men must be on their guard against those who say that the pope's pardons are that inestimable gift of God by which man is reconciled to Him; - - 34. For these "graces of pardon" concern only the penalties of sacramental satisfaction, and these are appointed by man. - - 35. They preach no Christian doctrine who teach that contrition is not necessary in those who intend to buy souls out of purgatory or to buy confessionalia. - - 36. Every truly repentant Christian has a right to full remission of penalty and guilt, even without letters of pardon. - - 37. Every true Christian, whether living or dead, has part in all the blessings of Christ and the Church; and this is granted him by God, even without letters of pardon. - - 38. Nevertheless, the remission and participation [in the blessings of the Church] which are granted by the pope are in no way to be despised, for they are, as I have said, the declaration of divine remission. - - 39. It is most difficult, even for the very keenest theologians, at one and the same time to commend to the people the abundance of pardons and [the need of] true contrition. - - 40. True contrition seeks and loves penalties, but liberal pardons only relax penalties and cause them to be hated, or at least, furnish an occasion [for hating them]. - - 41. Apostolic pardons are to be preached with caution, lest the people may falsely think them preferable to other good works of love. - - 42. Christians are to be taught that the pope does not intend the buying of pardons to be compared in any way to works of mercy. - - 43. Christians are to be taught that he who gives to the poor or lends to the needy does a better work than buying pardons; - - 44. Because love grows by works of love, and man becomes better; but by pardons man does not grow better, only more free from penalty. - - 45. Christians are to be taught that he who sees a man in need, and passes him by, and gives [his money] for pardons, purchases not the indulgences of the pope, but the indignation of God. - - 46. Christians are to be taught that unless they have more than they need, they are bound to keep back what is necessary for their own families, and by no means to squander it on pardons. - - 47. Christians are to be taught that the buying of pardons is a matter of free will, and not of commandment. - - 48. Christians are to be taught that the pope, in granting pardons, needs, and therefore desires, their devout prayer for him more than the money they bring. - - 49. Christians are to be taught that the pope's pardons are useful, if they do not put their trust in them; but altogether harmful, if through them they lose their fear of God. - - 50. Christians are to be taught that if the pope knew the exactions of the pardon-preachers, he would rather that St. Peter's church should go to ashes, than that it should be built up with the skin, flesh and bones of his sheep. - - 51. Christians are to be taught that it would be the pope's wish, as it is his duty, to give of his own money to very many of those from whom certain hawkers of pardons cajole money, even though the church of St. Peter might have to be sold. - - 52. The assurance of salvation by letters of pardon is vain, even though the commissary, nay, even though the pope himself, were to stake his soul upon it. - - 53. They are enemies of Christ and of the pope, who bid the Word of God be altogether silent in some Churches, in order that pardons may be preached in others. - - 54. Injury is done the Word of God when, in the same sermon, an equal or a longer time is spent on pardons than on this Word. - - 55. It must be the intention of the pope that if pardons, which are a very small thing, are celebrated with one bell, with single processions and ceremonies, then the Gospel, which is the very greatest thing, should be preached with a hundred bells, a hundred processions, a hundred ceremonies. - - 56. The "treasures of the Church," out of which the pope. grants indulgences, are not sufficiently named or known among the people of Christ. - - 57. That they are not temporal treasures is certainly evident, for many of the vendors do not pour out such treasures so easily, but only gather them. - - 58. Nor are they the merits of Christ and the Saints, for even without the pope, these always work grace for the inner man, and the cross, death, and hell for the outward man. - - 59. St. Lawrence said that the treasures of the Church were the Church's poor, but he spoke according to the usage of the word in his own time. - - 60. Without rashness we say that the keys of the Church, given by Christ's merit, are that treasure; - - 61. For it is clear that for the remission of penalties and of reserved cases, the power of the pope is of itself sufficient. - - 62. The true treasure of the Church is the Most Holy Gospel of the glory and the grace of God. - - 63. But this treasure is naturally most odious, for it makes the first to be last. - - 64. On the other hand, the treasure of indulgences is naturally most acceptable, for it makes the last to be first. - - 65. Therefore the treasures of the Gospel are nets with which they formerly were wont to fish for men of riches. - - 66. The treasures of the indulgences are nets with which they now fish for the riches of men. - - 67. The indulgences which the preachers cry as the "greatest graces" are known to be truly such, in so far as they promote gain. - - 68. Yet they are in truth the very smallest graces compared with the grace of God and the piety of the Cross. - - 69. Bishops and curates are bound to admit the commissaries of apostolic pardons, with all reverence. - - 70. But still more are they bound to strain all their eyes and attend with all their ears, lest these men preach their own dreams instead of the commission of the pope. - - 71. He who speaks against the truth of apostolic pardons, let him be anathema and accursed! - - 72. But he who guards against the lust and license of the pardon-preachers, let him be blessed! - - 73. The pope justly thunders against those who, by any art, contrive the injury of the traffic in pardons. - - 74. But much more does he intend to thunder against those who use the pretext of pardons to contrive the injury of holy love and truth. - - 75. To think the papal pardons so great that they could absolve a man even if he had committed an impossible sin and violated the Mother of God -- this is madness. - - 76. We say, on the contrary, that the papal pardons are not able to remove the very least of venial sins, so far as its guilt is concerned. - - 77. It is said that even St. Peter, if he were now Pope, could not bestow greater graces; this is blasphemy against St. Peter and against the pope. - - 78. We say, on the contrary, that even the present pope, and any pope at all, has greater graces at his disposal; to wit, the Gospel, powers, gifts of healing, etc., as it is written in I. Corinthians xii. - - 79. To say that the cross, emblazoned with the papal arms, which is set up [by the preachers of indulgences], is of equal worth with the Cross of Christ, is blasphemy. - - 80. The bishops, curates and theologians who allow such talk to be spread among the people, will have an account to render. - - 81. This unbridled preaching of pardons makes it no easy matter, even for learned men, to rescue the reverence due to the pope from slander, or even from the shrewd questionings of the laity. - - 82. To wit: "Why does not the pope empty purgatory, for the sake of holy love and of the dire need of the souls that are there, if he redeems an infinite number of souls for the sake of miserable money with which to build a Church? The former reasons would be most just; the latter is most trivial." - - 83. Again: "Why are mortuary and anniversary masses for the dead continued, and why does he not return or permit the withdrawal of the endowments founded on their behalf, since it is wrong to pray for the redeemed?" - - 84. Again: "What is this new piety of God and the pope, that for money they allow a man who is impious and their enemy to buy out of purgatory the pious soul of a friend of God, and do not rather, because of that pious and beloved soul's own need, free it for pure love's sake?" - - 85. Again: "Why are the penitential canons long since in actual fact and through disuse abrogated and dead, now satisfied by the granting of indulgences, as though they were still alive and in force?" - - 86. Again: "Why does not the pope, whose wealth is to-day greater than the riches of the richest, build just this one church of St. Peter with his own money, rather than with the money of poor believers?" - - 87. Again: "What is it that the pope remits, and what participation does he grant to those who, by perfect contrition, have a right to full remission and participation?" - - 88. Again: "What greater blessing could come to the Church than if the pope were to do a hundred times a day what he now does once, and bestow on every believer these remissions and participations?" - - 89. "Since the pope, by his pardons, seeks the salvation of souls rather than money, why does he suspend the indulgences and pardons granted heretofore, since these have equal efficacy?" - - 90. To repress these arguments and scruples of the laity by force alone, and not to resolve them by giving reasons, is to expose the Church and the pope to the ridicule of their enemies, and to make Christians unhappy. - - 91. If, therefore, pardons were preached according to the spirit and mind of the pope, all these doubts would be readily resolved; nay, they would not exist. - - 92. Away, then, with all those prophets who say to the people of Christ, "Peace, peace," and there is no peace! - - 93. Blessed be all those prophets who say to the people of Christ, "Cross, cross," and there is no cross! - - 94. Christians are to be exhorted that they be diligent in following Christ, their Head, through penalties, deaths, and hell; - - 95. And thus be confident of entering into heaven rather through many tribulations, than through the assurance of peace. - -The key is "KEY" diff --git a/packages/steg/20/@answer.txt b/packages/steg/20/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 9879e1f..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/20/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -stinger-reimbursements-Matterhorn diff --git a/packages/steg/20/@summary.txt b/packages/steg/20/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index f12ac5a..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/20/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -unzip a .docx to find dirtbags file diff --git a/packages/steg/20/test.docx b/packages/steg/20/test.docx deleted file mode 100644 index e633590..0000000 Binary files a/packages/steg/20/test.docx and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/steg/200/@answer.txt b/packages/steg/200/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 06bfde4..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/200/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -key diff --git a/packages/steg/200/@summary.txt b/packages/steg/200/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index df44042..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/200/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -filename of each gzip part diff --git a/packages/steg/200/Makefile b/packages/steg/200/Makefile deleted file mode 100644 index e330286..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/200/Makefile +++ /dev/null @@ -1,7 +0,0 @@ -.DELETE_ON_ERROR: - -$(DESTDIR)/file.gz: key text.txt - ./encode < key 3< text.txt > $@ - -clean: - rm -f $(DESTDIR)/file.gz diff --git a/packages/steg/200/encode b/packages/steg/200/encode deleted file mode 100755 index af73ab7..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/200/encode +++ /dev/null @@ -1,33 +0,0 @@ -#! /usr/bin/python - -import sys -import os -import gzip -import md5 - -partlen = 8 - -key = sys.stdin.read().strip() -hexofkey = key.encode('hex') - -garbage = os.fdopen(3).read() - -keyparts = [] -for i in range(0, len(hexofkey), partlen): - part = hexofkey[i:i+partlen] - keyparts.append(part) - -textpartlen = len(garbage) / len(keyparts) -for i in range(len(keyparts)): - offset = i*textpartlen - if i == len(keyparts) - 1: - textpart = garbage[offset:] - else: - textpart = garbage[offset:offset+textpartlen] - - fn = keyparts[i] + '.txt' - gf = gzip.GzipFile(filename=fn, mode='ab', fileobj=sys.stdout) - gf.write(textpart) - gf.close() - - diff --git a/packages/steg/200/text.txt b/packages/steg/200/text.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 584ce82..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/200/text.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,83 +0,0 @@ -[Preamble] Edward by the grace of God King of England, lord of Ireland and duke of Aquitaine sends greetings to all to whom the present letters come. We have inspected the great charter of the lord Henry, late King of England, our father, concerning the liberties of England in these words: - -Henry by the grace of God King of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine and count of Anjou sends greetings to his archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, earls, barons, sheriffs, reeves, ministers and all his bailiffs and faithful men inspecting the present charter. Know that we, at the prompting of God and for the health of our soul and the souls of our ancestors and successors, for the glory of holy Church and the improvement of our realm, freely and out of our good will have given and granted to the archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, earls, barons and all of our realm these liberties written below to hold in our realm of England in perpetuity. - -[1] In the first place we grant to God and confirm by this our present charter for ourselves and our heirs in perpetuity that the English Church is to be free and to have all its rights fully and its liberties entirely. We furthermore grant and give to all the freemen of our realm for ourselves and our heirs in perpetuity the liberties written below to have and to hold to them and their heirs from us and our heirs in perpetuity. - -[2] If any of our earls or barons, or anyone else holding from us in chief by military service should die, and should his heir be of full age and owe relief, the heir is to have his inheritance for the ancient relief, namely the heir or heirs of an earl for a whole county 100 pounds, the heir or heirs of a baron for a whole barony 100 marks, the heir or heirs of a knight for a whole knight's fee 100 shillings at most, and he who owes less will give less, according to the ancient custom of (knights') fees. - -[3] If, however, the heir of such a person is under age, his lord is not to have custody of him and his land until he has taken homage from the heir, and after such an heir has been in custody, when he comes of age, namely at twenty-one years old, he is to have his inheritance without relief and without fine, saving that if, whilst under age, he is made a knight, his land will nonetheless remain in the custody of his lords until the aforesaid term. - -[4] The keeper of the land of such an heir who is under age is only to take reasonable receipts from the heir's land and reasonable customs and reasonable services, and this without destruction or waste of men or things. And if we assign custody of any such land to a sheriff or to anyone else who should answer to us for the issues, and such a person should commit destruction or waste, we will take recompense from him and the land will be assigned to two law-worthy and discreet men of that fee who will answer to us or to the person to whom we assign such land for the land's issues. And if we give or sell to anyone custody of any such land and that person commits destruction or waste, he is to lose custody and the land is to be assigned to two law-worthy and discreet men of that fee who similarly will answer to us as is aforesaid. - -[5] The keeper, for as long as he has the custody of the land of such (an heir), is to maintain the houses, parks, fishponds, ponds, mills and other things pertaining to that land from the issues of the same land, and he will restore to the heir, when the heir comes to full age, all his land stocked with ploughs and all other things in at least the same condition as when he received it. All these things are to be observed in the custodies of archbishoprics, bishoprics, abbeys, priories, churches and vacant offices which pertain to us, save that such custodies ought not to be sold. - -[6] Heirs are to be married without disparagement. - -[7] A widow, after the death of her husband, is immediately and without any difficulty to have her marriage portion and her inheritance, nor is she to pay anything for her dower or her marriage portion or for her inheritance which her husband and she held on the day of her husband's death, and she shall remain in the chief dwelling place of her husband for forty days after her husband's death, within which time dower will be assigned her if it has not already been assigned, unless that house is a castle, and if it is a castle which she leaves, then a suitable house will immediately be provided for her in which she may properly dwell until her dower is assigned to her in accordance with what is aforesaid, and in the meantime she is to have her reasonable necessities (estoverium) from the common property. As dower she will be assigned the third part of all the lands of her husband which were his during his lifetime, save when she was dowered with less at the church door. No widow shall be distrained to marry for so long as she wishes to live without a husband, provided that she gives surety that she will not marry without our assent if she holds of us, or without the assent of her lord, if she holds of another. - -[8] Neither we nor our bailiffs will seize any land or rent for any debt, as long as the existing chattels of the debtor suffice for the payment of the debt and as long as the debtor is ready to pay the debt, nor will the debtor's guarantors be distrained for so long as the principal debtor is able to pay the debt; and should the principal debtor default in his payment of the debt, not having the means to repay it, or should he refuse to pay it despite being able to do so, the guarantors will answer for the debt and, if they wish, they are to have the lands and rents of the debtor until they are repaid the debt that previously they paid on behalf of the debtor, unless the principal debtor can show that he is quit in respect to these guarantors. - -[9] The city of London is to have all its ancient liberties and customs. Moreover we wish and grant that all other cities and boroughs and vills and the barons of the Cinque Ports and all ports are to have all their liberties and free customs. - -[10] No-one is to be distrained to do more service for a knight's fee or for any other free tenement than is due from it. - -[11] Common pleas are not to follow our court but are to be held in a certain fixed place. - -[12] Recognisances of novel disseisin and of mort d'ancestor are not to be taken save in their particular counties and in the following way. We or, should we be outside the realm, our chief justiciar, will send our justices once a year to each county, so that, together with the knights of the counties, that may take the aforesaid assizes in the counties; and those assizes which cannot be completed in that visitation of the county by our aforesaid justices assigned to take the said assizes are to be completed elsewhere by the justices in their visitation; and those which cannot be completed by them on account of the difficulty of various articles (of law) are to be referred to our justices of the Bench and completed there. - -[13] Assizes of darrein presentment are always to be taken before our justices of the Bench and are to be completed there. - -[14] A freeman is not to be amerced for a small offence save in accordance with the manner of the offence, and for a major offence according to its magnitude, saving his sufficiency (salvo contenemento suo), and a merchant likewise, saving his merchandise, and any villain other than one of our own is to be amerced in the same way, saving his necessity (salvo waynagio) should he fall into our mercy, and none of the aforesaid amercements is to be imposed save by the oath of honest and law-worthy men of the neighbourhood. Earls and barons are not to be amerced save by their peers and only in accordance with the manner of their offence. - -[15] No town or free man is to be distrained to make bridges or bank works save for those that ought to do so of old and by right. - -[16] No bank works of any sort are to be kept up save for those that were in defense in the time of King H(enry II) our grandfather and in the same places and on the same terms as was customary in his time. - -[17] No sheriff, constable, coroner or any other of our bailiffs is to hold pleas of our crown. - -[18] If anyone holding a lay fee from us should die, and our sheriff or bailiff shows our letters patent containing our summons for a debt that the dead man owed us, our sheriff or bailiff is permitted to attach and enroll all the goods and chattels of the dead man found in lay fee, to the value of the said debt, by view of law-worthy men, so that nothing is to be removed thence until the debt that remains is paid to us, and the remainder is to be released to the executors to discharge the will of the dead man, and if nothing is owed to us from such a person, all the chattels are to pass to the (use of) the dead man, saving to the dead man's wife and children their reasonable portion. - -[19] No constable or his bailiff is to take corn or other chattels from anyone who not themselves of a vill where a castle is built, unless the constable or his bailiff immediately offers money in payment of obtains a respite by the wish of the seller. If the person whose corn or chattels are taken is of such a vill, then the constable or his bailiff is to pay the purchase price within forty days. - -[20] No constable is to distrain any knight to give money for castle guard if the knight is willing to do such guard in person or by proxy of any other honest man, should the knight be prevented from doing so by just cause. And if we take or send such a knight into the army, he is to be quit of (castle) guard in accordance with the length of time the we have him in the army for the fee for which he has done service in the army. - -[21] No sheriff or bailiff of ours or of anyone else is to take anyone's horses or carts to make carriage, unless he renders the payment customarily due, namely for a two-horse cart ten pence per day, and for a three-horse cart fourteen pence per day. No demesne cart belonging to any churchman or knight or any other lady (sic) is to be taken by our bailiffs, nor will we or our bailiffs or anyone else take someone else's timber for a castle or any other of our business save by the will of he to whom the timber belongs. - -[22] We shall not hold the lands of those convicted of felony save for a year and a day, whereafter such land is to be restored to the lords of the fees. - -[23] All fish weirs (kidelli) on the Thames and the Medway and throughout England are to be entirely dismantled, save on the sea coast. - -[24] The writ called 'praecipe' is not to be issued to anyone in respect to any free tenement in such a way that a free man might lose his court. - -[25] There is to be a single measure for wine throughout our realm, and a single measure for ale, and a single measure for Corn, that is to say the London quarter, and a single breadth for dyed cloth, russets, and haberjects, that is to say two yards within the lists. And it shall be the same for weights as for measures. - -[26] Henceforth there is to be nothing given for a writ of inquest from the person seeking an inquest of life or member, but such a writ is to be given freely and is not to be denied. - -[27] If any persons hold from us at fee farm or in socage or burgage, and hold land from another by knight service, we are not, by virtue of such a fee farm or socage or burgage, to have custody of the heir or their land which pertains to another's fee, nor are we to have custody of such a fee farm or socage or burgage unless this fee farm owes knight service. We are not to have the custody of an heir or of any land which is held from another by knight service on the pretext of some small serjeanty held from us by service of rendering us knives or arrows or suchlike things. - -[28] No bailiff is henceforth to put any man on his open law or on oath simply by virtue of his spoken word, without reliable witnesses being produced for the same. - -[29] No freeman is to be taken or imprisoned or disseised of his free tenement or of his liberties or free customs, or outlawed or exiled or in any way ruined, nor will we go against such a man or send against him save by lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land. To no-one will we sell or deny of delay right or justice. - -[30] All merchants, unless they have been previously and publicly forbidden, are to have safe and secure conduct in leaving and coming to England and in staying and going through England both by land and by water to buy and to sell, without any evil exactions, according to the ancient and right customs, save in time of war, and if they should be from a land at war against us and be found in our land at the beginning of the war, they are to be attached without damage to their bodies or goods until it is established by us or our chief justiciar in what way the merchants of our land are treated who at such a time are found in the land that is at war with us, and if our merchants are safe there, the other merchants are to be safe in our land. - -[31] If anyone dies holding of any escheat such as the honour of Wallingford, Boulogne, Nottingham, Lancaster or of other escheats which are in our hands and which are baronies, his heir is not to give any other relief or render any other service to us that would not have been rendered to the baron if the barony were still held by a baron, and we shall hold such things in the same way as the baron held them, nor, on account of such a barony or escheat, are we to have the escheat or custody of any of our men unless the man who held the barony or the escheat held elsewhere from us in chief. - -[32] No free man is henceforth to give or sell any more of his land to anyone, unless the residue of his land is sufficient to render due service to the lord of the fee as pertains to that fee. - -[33] All patrons of abbeys which have charters of the kings of England over advowson or ancient tenure or possession are to have the custody of such abbeys when they fall vacant just as they ought to have and as is declared above. - -[34] No-one is to be taken or imprisoned on the appeal of woman for the death of anyone save for the death of that woman's husband. - -[35] No county court is to be held save from month to month, and where the greater term used to be held, so will it be in future, nor will any sheriff or his bailiff make his tourn through the hundred save for twice a year and only in the place that is due and customary, namely once after Easter and again after Michaelmas, and the view of frankpledge is to be taken at the Michaelmas term without exception, in such a way that every man is to have his liberties which he had or used to have in the time of King H(enry II) my grandfather or which he has acquired since. The view of frankpledge is to be taken so that our peace be held and so that the tithing is to be held entire as it used to be, and so that the sheriff does not seek exceptions but remains content with that which the sheriff used to have in taking the view in the time of King H(enry) our grandfather. - -[36] Nor is it permitted to anyone to give his land to a religious house in such a way that he receives it back from such a house to hold, nor is it permitted to any religious house to accept the land of anyone in such way that the land is restored to the person from whom it was received to hold. If anyone henceforth gives his land in such a way to any religious house and is convicted of the same, the gift is to be entirely quashed and such land is to revert to the lord of that fee. - -[37] Scutage furthermore is to be taken as it used to be in the time of King H(enry) our grandfather, and all liberties and free customs shall be preserved to archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, Templars, Hospitallers, earls, barons and all others, both ecclesiastical and secular persons, just as they formerly had. - -All these aforesaid customs and liberties which we have granted to be held in our realm in so far as pertains to us are to be observed by all of our realm, both clergy and laity, in so far as pertains to them in respect to their own men. For this gift and grant of these liberties and of others contained in our charter over the liberties of the forest, the archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, earls, barons, knights, fee holders and all of our realm have given us a fifteenth part of all their movable goods. Moreover we grant to them for us and our heirs that neither we nor our heirs will seek anything by which the liberties contained in this charter might be infringed or damaged, and should anything be obtained from anyone against this it is to count for nothing and to be held as nothing. With these witnesses: the lord S(tephen) archbishop of Canterbury, E(ustace) bishop of London, J(ocelin) bishop of Bath, P(eter) bishop of Winchester, H(ugh) bishop of Lincoln, R(ichard) bishop of Salisbury, W. bishop of Rochester, W(illiam) bishop of Worcester, J(ohn) bishop of Ely, H(ugh) bishop of Hereford, R(anulf) bishop of Chichester, W(illiam) bishop of Exeter, the abbot of (Bury) St Edmunds, the abbot of St Albans, the abbot of Battle, the abbot of St Augustine's Canterbury, the abbot of Evesham, the abbot of Westminster, the abbot of Peterborough, the abbot of Reading, the abbot of Abingdon, the abbot of Malmesbury, the abbot of Winchcombe, the abbot of Hyde (Winchester), the abbot of Chertsey, the abbot of Sherborne, the abbot of Cerne, the abbot of Abbotsbury, the abbot of Milton (Abbas), the abbot of Selby, the abbot of Cirencester, H(ubert) de Burgh the justiciar, H. earl of Chester and Lincoln, W(illiam) earl of Salisbury, W(illiam) earl Warenne, G. de Clare earl of Gloucester and Hertford, W(illiam) de Ferrers earl of Derby, W(illiam) de Mandeville earl of Essex, H(ugh) Bigod earl of Norfolk, W(illiam) earl Aumale, H(umphrey) earl of Hereford, J(ohn) constable of Chester, R(obert) de Ros, R(obert) fitz Walter, R(obert) de Vieuxpont, W(illiam) Brewer, R(ichard) de Montfiquet, P(eter) fitz Herbert, W(illiam) de Aubigne, G. Gresley, F. de Braose, J(ohn) of Monmouth, J(ohn) fitz Alan, H(ugh) de Mortemer, W(illiam) de Beauchamp, W(illiam) de St John, P(eter) de Maulay, Brian de Lisle, Th(omas) of Moulton, R(ichard) de Argentan, G(eoffrey) de Neville, W(illiam) Mauduit, J(ohn) de Baalon and others. Given at Westminster on the eleventh day of February in the ninth year of our reign. - -We, holding these aforesaid gifts and grants to be right and welcome, conceed and confirm them for ourselves and our heirs and by the terms of the present (letters) renew them, wishing and granting for ourselves and our heirs that the aforesaid charter is to be firmly and inviably observed in all and each of its articles in perpetuity, including any articles contained in the same charter which by chance have not to date been observed. In testimony of which we have had made these our letters patent. Witnessed by Edward our son, at Westminster on the twelfth day of October in the twenty-fifth year of our reign. (Chancery warranty by John of) Stowe. - -The key isn't here. 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I. - -Section. 1. - -All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. - -Section. 2. - -The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature. - -No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. - -Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three. - -When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies. - -The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment. - -Section. 3. - -The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote. - -Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes. The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every second Year; and if Vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise, during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such Vacancies. - -No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen. - -The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided. - -The Senate shall chuse their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the Absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States. - -The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present. - -Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law. - -Section. 4. - -The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators. - -The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day. - -Section. 5. - -Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide. - -Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member. - -Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal. - -Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting. - -Section. 6. - -The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place. - -No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office. - -Section. 7. - -All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills. - -Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States: If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law. - -Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill. - -Section. 8. - -The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; - -To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; - -To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; - -To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; - -To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; - -To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; - -To establish Post Offices and post Roads; - -To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; - -To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; - -To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; - -To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; - -To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; - -To provide and maintain a Navy; - -To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; - -To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; - -To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; - -To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And - -To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. - -Section. 9. - -The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person. - -The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it. - -No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed. - -No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken. - -No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State. - -No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another; nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another. - -No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time. - -No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State. - -Section. 10. - -No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. - -No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress. - -No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay. - -Article. II. - -Section. 1. - -The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows: - -Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector. - -The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President. - -The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States. - -No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States. - -In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected. - -The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them. - -Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:--"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." - -Section. 2. - -The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment. - -He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments. - -The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session. - -Section. 3. - -He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States. - -Section. 4. - -The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. - -Article III. - -Section. 1. - -The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office. - -Section. 2. - -The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;--to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;--to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;--to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;--to Controversies between two or more States;-- between a State and Citizens of another State,--between Citizens of different States,--between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects. - -In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make. - -The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed. - -Section. 3. - -Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. - -The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted. - -Article. IV. - -Section. 1. - -Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof. - -Section. 2. - -The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. - -A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime. - -No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due. - -Section. 3. - -New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress. - -The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. - -Section. 4. - -The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence. - -Article. V. - -The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate. - -Article. VI. - -All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation. - -This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding. - -The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. - -The key is "KEY". diff --git a/packages/steg/400/@answer.txt b/packages/steg/400/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5dd1805..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/400/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -wilderness fishsticks diff --git a/packages/steg/400/@summary.txt b/packages/steg/400/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 108d6bd..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/400/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Canon.0x0018 diff --git a/packages/steg/400/Makefile b/packages/steg/400/Makefile deleted file mode 100644 index e6e310f..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/400/Makefile +++ /dev/null @@ -1,34 +0,0 @@ -.DELETE_ON_ERROR: - -DESTDIR ?= . - -JPEGS += ww0207-43.jpg ww0870-11.jpg ww1645-44.jpg ww1646-66.jpg ww1646-78.jpg -JPEGS += ww0207-45.jpg ww0870-14.jpg ww1645-52.jpg ww1646-67.jpg ww1647-37.jpg -JPEGS += ww0207-90.jpg ww1645-22.jpg ww1645-53.jpg ww1646-69.jpg ww1647-75.jpg -JPEGS += ww0870-09.jpg ww1645-43.jpg ww1645-55.jpg ww1646-70.jpg ww1647-85.jpg - -PRISTINE = $(addprefix pristine/, $(JPEGS)) -NORMALIZED = $(addprefix normalized/, $(JPEGS)) - -install: $(DESTDIR)/file.zip - -.PRECIOUS: pristine/%.jpg -pristine/%.jpg: - @mkdir -p $(@D) - wget -O $@ http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/wwii-posters/img/$*.jpg - -normalized/%.jpg: pristine/%.jpg image.cmds - @mkdir -p $(@D) - cp $< $@ - exiv2 -m image.cmds $@ - -key.png: key - pbmtext < key | pnmtopng -compression 0 > $@ - -$(DESTDIR)/file.zip: key.png $(NORMALIZED) - ./encode $(NORMALIZED) < key.png > $@ - @echo $(NORMALIZED) - -clean: - rm -rf key.png $(DESTDIR)/file.zip - rm -rf normalized/ \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/steg/400/encode b/packages/steg/400/encode deleted file mode 100755 index 164039c..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/400/encode +++ /dev/null @@ -1,59 +0,0 @@ -#! /usr/bin/python - -## Fetch some public domain images, make a PNG of the key, and encode -## that in the Exif.Image.OriginalRawFileData tags of the images - -import os -import glob -import random -import shutil -import md5 -import sys -import zipfile - -def system(cmd): - ret = os.system(cmd) - if ret: - raise OSError('return value %d: %s' % (ret, cmd)) - -# Read in key image -key_png = sys.stdin.read() - -# Duplicate two photos, give them a chance to bindiff -jpegs = sys.argv[1:] -random.shuffle(jpegs) -for fn in jpegs[:2]: - root, ext = os.path.splitext(fn) - jpegs.append(fn) -random.shuffle(jpegs) - -bytes_per_photo = len(key_png) / len(jpegs) - -zipf = zipfile.ZipFile(sys.stdout, 'w') -for i in range(len(jpegs)): - fn = jpegs[i] - - cmd1 = 'set Exif.Canon.0x0019 %d' % i - - offset = i * bytes_per_photo - if i == len(jpegs) - 1: - bytes = key_png[offset:] - else: - bytes = key_png[offset:offset + bytes_per_photo] - bytes_str = ' '.join(str(ord(c)) for c in bytes) - cmd2 = 'set Exif.Canon.0x0018 "%s"' % bytes_str - - # Now apply our devious stuff - system('exiv2 -M\'%s\' -M\'%s\' %s' % (cmd1, cmd2, fn)) - - # Read it in - contents = open(fn, 'rb').read() - - # Find the new file's md5 checksum - checksum = md5.new(contents).hexdigest() - - # Make a new zip file entry - zi = zipfile.ZipInfo(checksum + '.jpg') - zi.compress_type = zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED - zi.external_attr = 0644 << 16L - zipf.writestr(zi, contents) diff --git a/packages/steg/400/image.cmds b/packages/steg/400/image.cmds deleted file mode 100644 index d54ddd9..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/400/image.cmds +++ /dev/null @@ -1,145 +0,0 @@ -set Exif.Image.Make Ascii "Canon" -set Exif.Image.Model Ascii "Canon PowerShot S2 IS" -set Exif.Image.Orientation Short "1" -set Exif.Image.XResolution Rational "180/1" -set Exif.Image.YResolution Rational "180/1" -set Exif.Image.ResolutionUnit Short "2" -set Exif.Image.DateTime Ascii "2009:04:23 10:10:34" -set Exif.Image.YCbCrPositioning Short "1" -set Exif.Image.ExifTag Long "186" -set Exif.Photo.ExposureTime Rational "1/60" -set Exif.Photo.FNumber Rational "40/10" -set Exif.Photo.ExifVersion Undefined "48 50 50 48" -set Exif.Photo.DateTimeOriginal Ascii "2009:04:23 10:10:34" -set 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Exif.Photo.CustomRendered Short "0" -set Exif.Photo.ExposureMode Short "0" -set Exif.Photo.WhiteBalance Short "0" -set Exif.Photo.DigitalZoomRatio Rational "2592/2592" -set Exif.Photo.SceneCaptureType Short "0" -set Exif.Canon.0x0002 Short "2 600 230 172" -set Exif.Canon.0x0003 Short "0 0 0 0" -set Exif.Canon.0x0000 Short "0 0 0 0 0 0" -set Exif.Canon.0x0000 Short "18 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0" -set Exif.Canon.0x0013 Short "0 0 0 0" -set Exif.Canon.ImageType Ascii "IMG:PowerShot S2 IS JPEG" -set Exif.Canon.FirmwareVersion Ascii "Firmware Version 1.00" -set Exif.Canon.OwnerName Ascii "" -set Exif.Canon.ModelID Long "23330816" -set Exif.Canon.0x000d Long "0 1 0 598 37 0 4294967278 37 0 0 6 10 556 575 384 4294967284 4294967293 597 364 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 77 92 236 160 255 20 247 69 251 56 54 82 244 0 0 1042 1302 82 244 4294967287 938 1602 1727 938 1 867 283 598 556 0 4294967293 0 0 0 0 0 0 2988 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 3136 3320 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3300 20 5" -set Exif.Canon.0x0018 Byte "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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b/packages/steg/50/text.txt deleted file mode 100644 index f9fd8fa..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/50/text.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,190 +0,0 @@ -PREAMBLE - -Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, - -Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people, - -Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law, - -Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations, - -Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, - -Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms, - -Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge, - -Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction. - - - - -Article 1. - - * All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. - - -Article 2. - - * Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty. - - -Article 3. - - * Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. - - -Article 4. - - * No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms. - - -Article 5. - - * No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. - - -Article 6. - - * Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. - - -Article 7. - - * All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination. - - -Article 8. - - * Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law. - - -Article 9. - - * No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. - - -Article 10. - - * Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him. - - -Article 11. - - * (1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. - * (2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed. - - -Article 12. - - * No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks. - - -Article 13. - - * (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. - * (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country. - - -Article 14. - - * (1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. - * (2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. - - -Article 15. - - * (1) Everyone has the right to a nationality. - * (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality. - - -Article 16. - - * (1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution. - * (2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses. - * (3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. - - -Article 17. - - * (1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. - * (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property. - - -Article 18. - - * Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. - - -Article 19. - - * Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. - - -Article 20. - - * (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. - * (2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association. - - -Article 21. - - * (1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. - * (2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country. - * (3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures. - - -Article 22. - - * Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality. - - -Article 23. - - * (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. - * (2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. - * (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. - * (4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests. - - -Article 24. - - * Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. - - -Article 25. - - * (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. - * (2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection. - - -Article 26. - - * (1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. - * (2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace. - * (3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. - - -Article 27. - - * (1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. - * (2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author. - - -Article 28. - - * Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized. - - -Article 29. - - * (1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible. - * (2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. - * (3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. - - -Article 30. - - * Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein. - -The key is "KEY". diff --git a/packages/steg/60/@answer.txt b/packages/steg/60/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 2278f54..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/60/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Share the software diff --git a/packages/steg/60/@summary.txt b/packages/steg/60/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 9dbdfe2..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/60/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -pngtopnm -alpha file.png | dd bs=1 skip=15 | zcat diff --git a/packages/steg/60/Makefile b/packages/steg/60/Makefile deleted file mode 100644 index 894ce21..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/60/Makefile +++ /dev/null @@ -1,25 +0,0 @@ -IMG = http://woozle.org/~neale/images/starwarsplan.jpg - -.DELETE_ON_ERROR: - -install: file.png - cp $< $(DESTDIR)/$$(md5sum file.png | awk '{print $$1;}') - -src.jpg: - wget -O $@ $(IMG) - -%.pbm: %.jpg - jpegtopnm $< > $@ - -alpha.pgm: src.pbm text.txt - echo "P5" > $@ - awk '(i++ == 1) { print; }' $< >> $@ - echo "255" >> $@ - m4 -DKEY="$(shell cat key)" text.txt | zip - - >> $@ - awk 'BEGIN{for(i=0;i<500000;i++)printf("\377");}' >> $@ - -file.png: alpha.pgm src.pbm - pnmtopng -alpha alpha.pgm src.pbm > $@ - -clean: - rm -f file.png alpha.pgm src.pbm diff --git a/packages/steg/60/src.jpg b/packages/steg/60/src.jpg deleted file mode 100644 index fc60e2f..0000000 Binary files a/packages/steg/60/src.jpg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/steg/60/text.txt b/packages/steg/60/text.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 36355a7..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/60/text.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,187 +0,0 @@ -What's GNU? Gnu's Not Unix! - -GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it. (1) Several other volunteers are helping me. Contributions of time, money, programs and equipment are greatly needed. - -So far we have an Emacs text editor with Lisp for writing editor commands, a source level debugger, a yacc-compatible parser generator, a linker, and around 35 utilities. A shell (command interpreter) is nearly completed. A new portable optimizing C compiler has compiled itself and may be released this year. An initial kernel exists but many more features are needed to emulate Unix. When the kernel and compiler are finished, it will be possible to distribute a GNU system suitable for program development. We will use TeX as our text formatter, but an nroff is being worked on. We will use the free, portable X window system as well. After this we will add a portable Common Lisp, an Empire game, a spreadsheet, and hundreds of other things, plus on-line documentation. We hope to supply, eventually, everything useful that normally comes with a Unix system, and more. - -GNU will be able to run Unix programs, but will not be identical to Unix. We will make all improvements that are convenient, based on our experience with other operating systems. In particular, we plan to have longer file names, file version numbers, a crashproof file system, file name completion perhaps, terminal-independent display support, and perhaps eventually a Lisp-based window system through which several Lisp programs and ordinary Unix programs can share a screen. Both C and Lisp will be available as system programming languages. We will try to support UUCP, MIT Chaosnet, and Internet protocols for communication. - -GNU is aimed initially at machines in the 68000/16000 class with virtual memory, because they are the easiest machines to make it run on. The extra effort to make it run on smaller machines will be left to someone who wants to use it on them. - -To avoid horrible confusion, please pronounce the `G' in the word `GNU' when it is the name of this project. -Why I Must Write GNU - -I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way. I cannot in good conscience sign a nondisclosure agreement or a software license agreement. For years I worked within the Artificial Intelligence Lab to resist such tendencies and other inhospitalities, but eventually they had gone too far: I could not remain in an institution where such things are done for me against my will. - -So that I can continue to use computers without dishonor, I have decided to put together a sufficient body of free software so that I will be able to get along without any software that is not free. I have resigned from the AI lab to deny MIT any legal excuse to prevent me from giving GNU away. -Why GNU Will Be Compatible with Unix - -Unix is not my ideal system, but it is not too bad. The essential features of Unix seem to be good ones, and I think I can fill in what Unix lacks without spoiling them. And a system compatible with Unix would be convenient for many other people to adopt. -How GNU Will Be Available - -GNU is not in the public domain. Everyone will be permitted to modify and redistribute GNU, but no distributor will be allowed to restrict its further redistribution. That is to say, proprietary modifications will not be allowed. I want to make sure that all versions of GNU remain free. -Why Many Other Programmers Want to Help - -I have found many other programmers who are excited about GNU and want to help. - -Many programmers are unhappy about the commercialization of system software. It may enable them to make more money, but it requires them to feel in conflict with other programmers in general rather than feel as comrades. The fundamental act of friendship among programmers is the sharing of programs; marketing arrangements now typically used essentially forbid programmers to treat others as friends. The purchaser of software must choose between friendship and obeying the law. Naturally, many decide that friendship is more important. But those who believe in law often do not feel at ease with either choice. They become cynical and think that programming is just a way of making money. - -By working on and using GNU rather than proprietary programs, we can be hospitable to everyone and obey the law. In addition, GNU serves as an example to inspire and a banner to rally others to join us in sharing. This can give us a feeling of harmony which is impossible if we use software that is not free. For about half the programmers I talk to, this is an important happiness that money cannot replace. -How You Can Contribute - -I am asking computer manufacturers for donations of machines and money. I'm asking individuals for donations of programs and work. - -One consequence you can expect if you donate machines is that GNU will run on them at an early date. The machines should be complete, ready to use systems, approved for use in a residential area, and not in need of sophisticated cooling or power. - -I have found very many programmers eager to contribute part-time work for GNU. For most projects, such part-time distributed work would be very hard to coordinate; the independently-written parts would not work together. But for the particular task of replacing Unix, this problem is absent. A complete Unix system contains hundreds of utility programs, each of which is documented separately. Most interface specifications are fixed by Unix compatibility. If each contributor can write a compatible replacement for a single Unix utility, and make it work properly in place of the original on a Unix system, then these utilities will work right when put together. Even allowing for Murphy to create a few unexpected problems, assembling these components will be a feasible task. (The kernel will require closer communication and will be worked on by a small, tight group.) - -If I get donations of money, I may be able to hire a few people full or part time. The salary won't be high by programmers' standards, but I'm looking for people for whom building community spirit is as important as making money. I view this as a way of enabling dedicated people to devote their full energies to working on GNU by sparing them the need to make a living in another way. -Why All Computer Users Will Benefit - -Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air. (2) - -This means much more than just saving everyone the price of a Unix license. It means that much wasteful duplication of system programming effort will be avoided. This effort can go instead into advancing the state of the art. - -Complete system sources will be available to everyone. As a result, a user who needs changes in the system will always be free to make them himself, or hire any available programmer or company to make them for him. Users will no longer be at the mercy of one programmer or company which owns the sources and is in sole position to make changes. - -Schools will be able to provide a much more educational environment by encouraging all students to study and improve the system code. Harvard's computer lab used to have the policy that no program could be installed on the system if its sources were not on public display, and upheld it by actually refusing to install certain programs. I was very much inspired by this. - -Finally, the overhead of considering who owns the system software and what one is or is not entitled to do with it will be lifted. - -Arrangements to make people pay for using a program, including licensing of copies, always incur a tremendous cost to society through the cumbersome mechanisms necessary to figure out how much (that is, which programs) a person must pay for. And only a police state can force everyone to obey them. Consider a space station where air must be manufactured at great cost: charging each breather per liter of air may be fair, but wearing the metered gas mask all day and all night is intolerable even if everyone can afford to pay the air bill. And the TV cameras everywhere to see if you ever take the mask off are outrageous. It's better to support the air plant with a head tax and chuck the masks. - -Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free. -Some Easily Rebutted Objections to GNU's Goals - -"Nobody will use it if it is free, because that means they can't rely on any support." - -"You have to charge for the program to pay for providing the support." - -If people would rather pay for GNU plus service than get GNU free without service, a company to provide just service to people who have obtained GNU free ought to be profitable. (3) - -We must distinguish between support in the form of real programming work and mere handholding. The former is something one cannot rely on from a software vendor. If your problem is not shared by enough people, the vendor will tell you to get lost. - -If your business needs to be able to rely on support, the only way is to have all the necessary sources and tools. Then you can hire any available person to fix your problem; you are not at the mercy of any individual. With Unix, the price of sources puts this out of consideration for most businesses. With GNU this will be easy. It is still possible for there to be no available competent person, but this problem cannot be blamed on distribution arrangements. GNU does not eliminate all the world's problems, only some of them. - -Meanwhile, the users who know nothing about computers need handholding: doing things for them which they could easily do themselves but don't know how. - -Such services could be provided by companies that sell just hand-holding and repair service. If it is true that users would rather spend money and get a product with service, they will also be willing to buy the service having got the product free. The service companies will compete in quality and price; users will not be tied to any particular one. Meanwhile, those of us who don't need the service should be able to use the program without paying for the service. - -"You cannot reach many people without advertising, and you must charge for the program to support that." - -"It's no use advertising a program people can get free." - -There are various forms of free or very cheap publicity that can be used to inform numbers of computer users about something like GNU. But it may be true that one can reach more microcomputer users with advertising. If this is really so, a business which advertises the service of copying and mailing GNU for a fee ought to be successful enough to pay for its advertising and more. This way, only the users who benefit from the advertising pay for it. - -On the other hand, if many people get GNU from their friends, and such companies don't succeed, this will show that advertising was not really necessary to spread GNU. Why is it that free market advocates don't want to let the free market decide this? (4) - -"My company needs a proprietary operating system to get a competitive edge." - -GNU will remove operating system software from the realm of competition. You will not be able to get an edge in this area, but neither will your competitors be able to get an edge over you. You and they will compete in other areas, while benefiting mutually in this one. If your business is selling an operating system, you will not like GNU, but that's tough on you. If your business is something else, GNU can save you from being pushed into the expensive business of selling operating systems. - -I would like to see GNU development supported by gifts from many manufacturers and users, reducing the cost to each. (5) - -"Don't programmers deserve a reward for their creativity?" - -If anything deserves a reward, it is social contribution. Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs. - -"Shouldn't a programmer be able to ask for a reward for his creativity?" - -There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive. But the means customary in the field of software today are based on destruction. - -Extracting money from users of a program by restricting their use of it is destructive because the restrictions reduce the amount and the ways that the program can be used. This reduces the amount of wealth that humanity derives from the program. When there is a deliberate choice to restrict, the harmful consequences are deliberate destruction. - -The reason a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness. This is Kantian ethics; or, the Golden Rule. Since I do not like the consequences that result if everyone hoards information, I am required to consider it wrong for one to do so. Specifically, the desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity. - -"Won't programmers starve?" - -I could answer that nobody is forced to be a programmer. Most of us cannot manage to get any money for standing on the street and making faces. But we are not, as a result, condemned to spend our lives standing on the street making faces, and starving. We do something else. - -But that is the wrong answer because it accepts the questioner's implicit assumption: that without ownership of software, programmers cannot possibly be paid a cent. Supposedly it is all or nothing. - -The real reason programmers will not starve is that it will still be possible for them to get paid for programming; just not paid as much as now. - -Restricting copying is not the only basis for business in software. It is the most common basis because it brings in the most money. If it were prohibited, or rejected by the customer, software business would move to other bases of organization which are now used less often. There are always numerous ways to organize any kind of business. - -Probably programming will not be as lucrative on the new basis as it is now. But that is not an argument against the change. It is not considered an injustice that sales clerks make the salaries that they now do. If programmers made the same, that would not be an injustice either. (In practice they would still make considerably more than that.) - -"Don't people have a right to control how their creativity is used?" - -"Control over the use of one's ideas" really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult. - -People who have studied the issue of intellectual property rights (6) carefully (such as lawyers) say that there is no intrinsic right to intellectual property. The kinds of supposed intellectual property rights that the government recognizes were created by specific acts of legislation for specific purposes. - -For example, the patent system was established to encourage inventors to disclose the details of their inventions. Its purpose was to help society rather than to help inventors. At the time, the life span of 17 years for a patent was short compared with the rate of advance of the state of the art. Since patents are an issue only among manufacturers, for whom the cost and effort of a license agreement are small compared with setting up production, the patents often do not do much harm. They do not obstruct most individuals who use patented products. - -The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part. The copyright system was created expressly for the purpose of encouraging authorship. In the domain for which it was invented--books, which could be copied economically only on a printing press--it did little harm, and did not obstruct most of the individuals who read the books. - -All intellectual property rights are just licenses granted by society because it was thought, rightly or wrongly, that society as a whole would benefit by granting them. But in any particular situation, we have to ask: are we really better off granting such license? What kind of act are we licensing a person to do? - -The case of programs today is very different from that of books a hundred years ago. The fact that the easiest way to copy a program is from one neighbor to another, the fact that a program has both source code and object code which are distinct, and the fact that a program is used rather than read and enjoyed, combine to create a situation in which a person who enforces a copyright is harming society as a whole both materially and spiritually; in which a person should not do so regardless of whether the law enables him to. - -"Competition makes things get done better." - -The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way. If the runners forget why the reward is offered and become intent on winning, no matter how, they may find other strategies--such as, attacking other runners. If the runners get into a fist fight, they will all finish late. - -Proprietary and secret software is the moral equivalent of runners in a fist fight. Sad to say, the only referee we've got does not seem to object to fights; he just regulates them ("For every ten yards you run, you can fire one shot"). He really ought to break them up, and penalize runners for even trying to fight. - -"Won't everyone stop programming without a monetary incentive?" - -Actually, many people will program with absolutely no monetary incentive. Programming has an irresistible fascination for some people, usually the people who are best at it. There is no shortage of professional musicians who keep at it even though they have no hope of making a living that way. - -But really this question, though commonly asked, is not appropriate to the situation. Pay for programmers will not disappear, only become less. So the right question is, will anyone program with a reduced monetary incentive? My experience shows that they will. - -For more than ten years, many of the world's best programmers worked at the Artificial Intelligence Lab for far less money than they could have had anywhere else. They got many kinds of non-monetary rewards: fame and appreciation, for example. And creativity is also fun, a reward in itself. - -Then most of them left when offered a chance to do the same interesting work for a lot of money. - -What the facts show is that people will program for reasons other than riches; but if given a chance to make a lot of money as well, they will come to expect and demand it. Low-paying organizations do poorly in competition with high-paying ones, but they do not have to do badly if the high-paying ones are banned. - -"We need the programmers desperately. If they demand that we stop helping our neighbors, we have to obey." - -You're never so desperate that you have to obey this sort of demand. Remember: millions for defense, but not a cent for tribute! - -"Programmers need to make a living somehow." - -In the short run, this is true. However, there are plenty of ways that programmers could make a living without selling the right to use a program. This way is customary now because it brings programmers and businessmen the most money, not because it is the only way to make a living. It is easy to find other ways if you want to find them. Here are a number of examples. - -A manufacturer introducing a new computer will pay for the porting of operating systems onto the new hardware. - -The sale of teaching, hand-holding and maintenance services could also employ programmers. - -People with new ideas could distribute programs as freeware, asking for donations from satisfied users, or selling hand-holding services. I have met people who are already working this way successfully. - -Users with related needs can form users' groups, and pay dues. A group would contract with programming companies to write programs that the group's members would like to use. - -All sorts of development can be funded with a Software Tax: - -Suppose everyone who buys a computer has to pay x percent of the price as a software tax. The government gives this to an agency like the NSF to spend on software development. - -But if the computer buyer makes a donation to software development himself, he can take a credit against the tax. He can donate to the project of his own choosing--often, chosen because he hopes to use the results when it is done. He can take a credit for any amount of donation up to the total tax he had to pay. - -The total tax rate could be decided by a vote of the payers of the tax, weighted according to the amount they will be taxed on. - -The consequences: - - * The computer-using community supports software development. - * This community decides what level of support is needed. - * Users who care which projects their share is spent on can choose this for themselves. - -In the long run, making programs free is a step toward the post-scarcity world, where nobody will have to work very hard just to make a living. People will be free to devote themselves to activities that are fun, such as programming, after spending the necessary ten hours a week on required tasks such as legislation, family counseling, robot repair and asteroid prospecting. There will be no need to be able to make a living from programming. - -We have already greatly reduced the amount of work that the whole society must do for its actual productivity, but only a little of this has translated itself into leisure for workers because much nonproductive activity is required to accompany productive activity. The main causes of this are bureaucracy and isometric struggles against competition. Free software will greatly reduce these drains in the area of software production. We must do this, in order for technical gains in productivity to translate into less work for us. -Footnotes - -(1) The wording here was careless. The intention was that nobody would have to pay for *permission* to use the GNU system. But the words don't make this clear, and people often interpret them as saying that copies of GNU should always be distributed at little or no charge. That was never the intent; later on, the manifesto mentions the possibility of companies providing the service of distribution for a profit. Subsequently I have learned to distinguish carefully between "free" in the sense of freedom and "free" in the sense of price. Free software is software that users have the freedom to distribute and change. Some users may obtain copies at no charge, while others pay to obtain copies--and if the funds help support improving the software, so much the better. The important thing is that everyone who has a copy has the freedom to cooperate with others in using it. - -(2) This is another place I failed to distinguish carefully between the two different meanings of "free". The statement as it stands is not false--you can get copies of GNU software at no charge, from your friends or over the net. But it does suggest the wrong idea. - -(3) Several such companies now exist. - -(4) The Free Software Foundation raises most of its funds from a distribution service, although it is a charity rather than a company. If *no one* chooses to obtain copies by ordering them from the FSF, it will be unable to do its work. But this does not mean that proprietary restrictions are justified to force every user to pay. If a small fraction of all the users order copies from the FSF, that is sufficient to keep the FSF afloat. So we ask users to choose to support us in this way. Have you done your part? - -(5) A group of computer companies recently pooled funds to support maintenance of the GNU C Compiler. - -(6) In the 80s I had not yet realized how confusing it was to speak of "the issue" of "intellectual property". That term is obviously biased; more subtle is the fact that it lumps together various disparate laws which raise very different issues. Nowadays I urge people to reject the term "intellectual property" entirely, lest it lead others to suppose this is one coherent issue. The way to be clear is to to discuss patents, copyrights, and trademarks separately. See the Confusing Words and Phrases that are Worth Avoiding page. - -The key is "KEY". diff --git a/packages/steg/70/@answer.txt b/packages/steg/70/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 06b1fb9..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/70/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -blowers-Merak-imaginary diff --git a/packages/steg/70/@summary.txt b/packages/steg/70/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 6884edf..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/70/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -embedded in comment in .docx diff --git a/packages/steg/70/test2.docx b/packages/steg/70/test2.docx deleted file mode 100644 index 768ae8f..0000000 Binary files a/packages/steg/70/test2.docx and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/steg/steg.mk b/packages/steg/steg.mk deleted file mode 100644 index fbcad46..0000000 --- a/packages/steg/steg.mk +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ -$(eval $(call STANDARD_PUZZLE, steg)) - -STEG_SUBMAKES = $(wildcard packages/steg/*/Makefile) -STEG_SUBCLEANS = $(patsubst %/Makefile, %/clean, $(STEG_SUBMAKES)) - -steg-clean: $(STEG_SUBCLEANS) - -packages/steg/%/clean: - $(MAKE) -C $(@D) clean diff --git a/packages/webapp/10/,binary.png b/packages/webapp/10/,binary.png deleted file mode 100644 index 81cecbf..0000000 Binary files a/packages/webapp/10/,binary.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/packages/webapp/10/,ctf.css b/packages/webapp/10/,ctf.css deleted file mode 100644 index 4f1b798..0000000 --- a/packages/webapp/10/,ctf.css +++ /dev/null @@ -1,62 +0,0 @@ -html,body { - height: 100%; - min-height: 100%; - background-color: #000000; - background-image: url(",binary.png"); - background-repeat: repeat; - margin: 0; - padding: 0; -} - -#wrapper { - min-height: 100%; - height: 100%; - width: 800px; - margin: 0 auto; - border-left: 2px solid #009900; - border-right: 2px solid #009900; - font: .9em monospace; - color: #009900; - padding: 0; - background: #000; -} - -#content { - padding: 2em 1.5em 2em 1.5em; -} - -#footer { - padding: 0; - margin: 0; - height: 2em; - line-height: 2em; - width: 800px; - text-align: center; -} - -input { - background-color: #222; - color: #fff; - border: 1px solid #009900; - padding: 1px 2px 1px 2px; -} - -h1,h2,h3,h4 { - padding-bottom: 5px; -} - -.vertsep { - width: 100%; - height: 1px; - padding: 0; - margin: 2em auto 2em auto; - border-bottom: 1px dotted #222; -} - -.error { - padding: 1em; - background: #fff; - color: red; - border: 1px solid red; - font-weight: bold; -} diff --git a/packages/webapp/10/1.cgi b/packages/webapp/10/1.cgi deleted file mode 100755 index 91ddffd..0000000 --- a/packages/webapp/10/1.cgi +++ /dev/null @@ -1,32 +0,0 @@ -#!/usr/bin/python - -import cgi -import cgitb - -print 'Content-Type: text/html' -print '' - -print ''' - - - 1 - - - - -
-
-

Web Application Challenge 1

-

Through some manipulation or interpretation of this CGI script - and the HTML page(s) that it generates, a 10 character key can be - found.

-

Find the key!

-
- -
- - -''' - diff --git a/packages/webapp/10/@answer.txt b/packages/webapp/10/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index c6f8085..0000000 --- a/packages/webapp/10/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -ktFfb8R1Bw diff --git a/packages/webapp/10/@summary.txt b/packages/webapp/10/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 1a32b86..0000000 --- a/packages/webapp/10/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -the key is in the generated source. diff --git a/packages/webapp/20/,binary.png b/packages/webapp/20/,binary.png deleted file mode 120000 index 36053bd..0000000 --- a/packages/webapp/20/,binary.png +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -../10/,binary.png \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/webapp/20/,ctf.css b/packages/webapp/20/,ctf.css deleted file mode 120000 index 19b2533..0000000 --- a/packages/webapp/20/,ctf.css +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -../10/,ctf.css \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/webapp/20/2.cgi b/packages/webapp/20/2.cgi deleted file mode 100755 index 3e9b6cd..0000000 --- a/packages/webapp/20/2.cgi +++ /dev/null @@ -1,48 +0,0 @@ -#!/usr/bin/python - -import cgi -import cgitb -cgitb.enable(context=10) - -fields = cgi.FieldStorage() - -print 'Content-Type: text/html' -print '' - - -print ''' - - - 2 - - - -
-
-

Web Application Challenge 2

-

Through some manipulation or interpretation of this CGI script - and the HTML page(s) that it generates, a 10 character key can be - found.

-

Find the key!

-

Question: How many geeks does it take to break a CGI?

-''' - -# key = uq4G4dXrpx -if (fields.has_key('num')): - print ''' -

You entered %d.

- ''' % int(fields['num'].value) - -print ''' -
- Enter an integer: -
-
- -
- - -''' - diff --git a/packages/webapp/20/@answer.txt b/packages/webapp/20/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index f460886..0000000 --- a/packages/webapp/20/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -uq4G4dXrpx diff --git a/packages/webapp/20/@summary.txt b/packages/webapp/20/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index b1c925e..0000000 --- a/packages/webapp/20/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -enter a non-integer into form field and submit. the key is in the resulting traceback. diff --git a/packages/webapp/30/,binary.png b/packages/webapp/30/,binary.png deleted file mode 120000 index 36053bd..0000000 --- a/packages/webapp/30/,binary.png +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -../10/,binary.png \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/webapp/30/,ctf.css b/packages/webapp/30/,ctf.css deleted file mode 120000 index 19b2533..0000000 --- a/packages/webapp/30/,ctf.css +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -../10/,ctf.css \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/packages/webapp/30/3.cgi b/packages/webapp/30/3.cgi deleted file mode 100755 index 63f495b..0000000 --- a/packages/webapp/30/3.cgi +++ /dev/null @@ -1,73 +0,0 @@ -#!/usr/bin/python - -import cgi -import cgitb -cgitb.enable(context=10) - -fields = cgi.FieldStorage() - -print 'Content-Type: text/html' -print '' - - -print ''' - - - 3 - - - -
-
-

Web Application Challenge 3

-

Through some manipulation or interpretation of this CGI script - and the HTML page(s) that it generates, a 10 character key can be - found.

-

Find the key!

- -
-''' - -PRODUCT_NAME = "Monkey of some kind" - -def purchase_success(quantity): - print ''' -

Congratulations, your order for %d "%s" has been placed.

- ''' % (quantity, PRODUCT_NAME) - -# key = BRrHdtdADI -if fields.has_key('quantity') and fields.has_key('product') and fields['product'].value == PRODUCT_NAME: - product = fields['product'].value - quantity = int(fields['quantity'].value) - - purchase_success(quantity) -else: - print ''' - -

SALE: %s

-

Use the order form below to place an order.

- -
- How many would you like? - -

- - -
- ''' % (PRODUCT_NAME, PRODUCT_NAME) - -print ''' - -
- -
- - -''' - diff --git a/packages/webapp/30/@answer.txt b/packages/webapp/30/@answer.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 4023e13..0000000 --- a/packages/webapp/30/@answer.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -BRrHdtdADI diff --git a/packages/webapp/30/@summary.txt b/packages/webapp/30/@summary.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 9e01f5c..0000000 --- a/packages/webapp/30/@summary.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -change the value in the GET request to a non-integer. the key is in the resulting traceback. diff --git a/packages/webapp/webapp.mk b/packages/webapp/webapp.mk deleted file mode 100644 index 131d8eb..0000000 --- a/packages/webapp/webapp.mk +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -$(eval $(call STANDARD_PUZZLE, webapp))