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"Roman numerals which sometimes follow, enclosed in a circle, give the position of the word in the paragraph, if it does not, as usual, begin the paragraph. "The phonetic spelling of Holzminden is marked by an asterisk when first employed. "Minus and plus signs are namely used to subtract or to add letters or to connect syllables. Reference to the code-book makes all this clear enough.
The man is that civilian prisoner, Kay McKay, who escaped from Holzminden, and of whom an exact description is available. "The woman is Evelyn Erith. Exact information concerning her is also available. "The situation is one of extremest delicacy and peril. "This must not happen. Yet it is vitally imperative that these two enemy agents should be discovered, seized, and destroyed.
"That's about all," he said "as far as facts are concerned.... They treated me rather badly.... I faced their firing-squads half-a-dozen times. After that bluff wouldn't work they interned me as an English civilian at Holzminden.... They hid me when, at last, an inspection took place. No chance for me to communicate with our Ambassador or with any of the Commission."
After Mount Terrible, with its grim "Great Secret," had come the horrors of the prison camp at Holzminden and its nameless atrocities, his escape to New York, the Hun cipher orders to "silence him," his miraculous rescue and redemption by the girl at his side and now their dual mission to probe the mystery of Mount Terrible.
"I asked you how long ago you escaped from Holzminden camp?" repeated the girl, very pale. "Who told you I had ever been there? wherever that is!" "You were there as a prisoner, were you not, Mr. McKay?" "Where is that place?" "In Germany on the River Weser. You were detained there under pretence of being an Englishman before we declared war on Germany.
"I know you escaped from the Holzminden prison-camp in Germany; that you were inhumanly treated there by the Boche; that you entered the United States Intelligence Service; and that, whatever may be your business here, I am to help further it at your request."
Phonetic spelling is indulged in occasionally I should almost say humorously were it not a Teuton mind which evolved the phonetic combinations which represent proper names not found in that dictionary names like Holzminden and New York, for example. "As for the symbols and numbers, they are not at all obscure. Reference to the dictionary makes the cipher perfectly clear.
He turned to her in his boyish, frank way: "But do you know, Miss Erith, it took me quite a while to analyse the affair and to figure out why they arrested me, lied about me, and treated me so hellishly. "You see, I was kept in solitary confinement and never had a chance to speak to any of the other civilians interned there at Holzminden.
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