@XXSpadeMasterXX,
9, !) + 5, * + 19, @)) + 15, &) + 21, $)) + 19,@)) = ***
That obviously is a code used by an undergraduate in writing to his brother knowing that Mamsie opens all his letters and is ever watchful of him sinking into an abyss of moral turpitude which she knows is always lurking in universities to swallow up and deliver unto perdition the sons of gentlefolk.
It means "Nine so far, would you believe, plus five pencilled in and nineteen more at the periphery plus 15 in the small dorm and twenty-one in the large one, so it's ***ing all the way.