The Works of George W. M. Reynolds — page 246: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THE RESULT 229 Our meaning can be better conveyed by placing in juxta- position the proper alphabet and the alphabet according to which Lady Bess’s note was written: abcdefghijklmnopgqrstuvwxy Z Imnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk Thus / served for a, m for b, n for c, and so on. We must likewise observe that instead of the capital letter I, when expressing the first person, astar (*) was used in the hiero- glyphic calligraphy. (COMMUC 0)(0)() SS (S(O)