X-Git-Url: https://git.njae.me.uk/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=2012%2F1a.plaintext;fp=2012%2F1a.plaintext;h=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hb=50f2a1425d9523aaff91ea81fa098a59f44b69cd;hp=ce786bd98c1a59101fbc280c133c344ca83bb293;hpb=40661006e4ba6b1f8541c1cb58dea1ecfd5265a4;p=cipher-training.git diff --git a/2012/1a.plaintext b/2012/1a.plaintext deleted file mode 100644 index ce786bd..0000000 --- a/2012/1a.plaintext +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ -My Dear Charles, - -I have decyphered the first section of my Uncle’s will and I am deeply saddened and perplexed by it. I had hoped that it would explain the sad circumstances of his death and allow me to remember him with the affection I recall from my childhood. Of course I knew that Tiberius had been engaged in secret government work prior to the War, but I had refused to believe that he could have had anything to do with those foul new weapons that so scarred my generation. I am not sure that I want to read the rest of his letter to me. Before I read it I could not have accepted that he had collaborated with the enemy, but I had not realized that he was acquainted with Hahn, a fact I read with distaste, and his claim to have maintained that relationship at the request of the government is the worst sort of self-justification. - -I am puzzled by Tiberius’s strange instruction that I should decypher the document. It seems a trivializing, if not to say frivolous, request. It is hard to square this with the suicide note of a traitor, but perhaps I have been here on Malta for too long. It is many years since I spent time in the company of friends or relatives and, though I find the solitude consoling, it makes me a poor judge of character. - -I am sorry to say that I am ashamed of my Uncle and I have decided not to continue with this unpleasant game. I will have nothing more to do with him, but I see no need to add to the embarrassment of his friends and family and I would ask you to maintain the greatest discretion in your communications concerning this disappointing document, as I have done in encrypting this letter. - -Yours sincerely, - -Nicholas \ No newline at end of file