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Rest easy; your friend is watching over you." Mon. Dudouis reflected a moment, then said: "It is quite clear....the basket....the eight compartments.... From twelve to sixteen means from twelve to four o'clock." "But this H-P, that will wait?" "H-P must mean automobile. H-P, horsepower, is the way they indicate strength of the motor. A twenty-four H-P is an automobile of twenty-four horsepower."
He turned the handle to the left; then to the right. It yielded and unscrewed. The knife was hollow, and served as a hiding-place for a sheet of paper. "Peuh!" he said, "that is not very clever for a man like Arsene. But we mustn't lose any time. You, Dieuzy, go and search the restaurant." Then he read the note: "I trust to you, H-P will follow at a distance every day. I will go ahead.
Delicately, with the aid of a pin, he withdrew a roll of very thin paper, scarcely larger than a toothpick. It was a letter. He unrolled it, and found these words, written in a feminine handwriting: "The basket has taken the place of the others. Eight out of ten are ready. On pressing the outer foot the plate goes downward. From twelve to sixteen every day, H-P will wait. But where? Reply at once.
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