Stopping before Joam Dacosta, he could not speak for a second, and
then these words escaped his lips:
"Innocent! Innocent!"
CHAPTER XIX
THE CRIME OF TIJUCO
ON THE ARRIVAL of the judge the mournful procession halted. A roaring
echo had repeated after him and again repeated the cry which escaped
from every mouth:
"Innocent! Innocent!"
Then complete silence fell on all. The people did not want to lose
one syllable of what was about to be proclaimed.
Judge Jarriquez sat down on a stone seat, and then, while Minha,
Benito, Manoel, and Fragoso stood round him, while Joam Dacosta
clasped Yaquita to his heart, he first unraveled the last paragraph
of the document by means of the number, and as the words appeared by
the institution of the true letters for the cryptological ones, he
divided and punctuated them, and then read it out in a loud voice.
And this is what he read in the midst of profound silence:
_Le v?ritable auteur du vol des diamants et de_
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_Ph yjslyddf dzxgas gz zqq ehx gkfndrxu ju gi
l'assassinat des soldats qui escortaient le convoi,_
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_ocytdxvksbx bhu ypohdvy rym huhpuydkjox ph etozsl
commis dans la nuit du vingt-deux janvier mil_
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_etnpmv ffov pd pajx hy ynojyggay meqynfu q1n
huit-cent vingt-six, n'est donc pas Joam Dacosta,_
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injustement condamn? ? mort, c'est moi, les mis?rable_
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_l4msyuhqpz drrgcroh e pqxu fivv rpl ph onthvddqf
employ? de l'administration du district diamantin,_
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out, moi seul, qui signe de mon vrai nom, Ortega.
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