
In Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the Dancing Men“, a man reports that his wife, Elsie, became upset when she received several notes with figures of dancing men on them. Holmes went about deciphering the code. He knew that E is the most common letter in the English language and that there was a high probability that the name “Elsie” appeared somewhere in one of the messages. Using this information, can you decipher the messages she recieved and the one message she sent?
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