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Could she steal out on tiptoe, throw one over his head, and escape with the paper before he could stop her? Even then, unless she had time to lock him in, what chance would she have of leaving the building? She watched him write, without undue haste, but referring every now and then to the code-book by his side.
"Sir: "I home the honour to report that the matter with which you have entrusted me is now entirely cleared up. "This short preliminary memorandum is merely to refresh your memory concerning the particular case herewith submitted in detail. "In re Herman Laufer: "The code-book, as you recollect, is Stormonth's English Dictionary, XIII Edition, published by Wm.
"Show him in!" he snapped, and swept the paper from the desk and into a drawer.... "Good-morning, sir!" as Marston bowed on the threshold; then, without any preliminaries: "What success?" "I have the French code-book," Marston replied. "With you?" Marston drew out the slender book. "It embraces all their codes, I believe," he remarked.
And often a word had to be repeated three or four times before it was answered, but at the fourth letter of "Zwaartzkopjesfontein" the answering signal was plainly given, followed by DDDD, which, although not in the code-book, is an expression well understood by all signallers. All that night it rained, and the men in their wretched bivouacs sang through it all with a most admirable heroism.
That morning a big packet of those typed reports in French had arrived in the usual registered, orange-coloured envelope, and after she had read them over to the Baronet, he had given her the key, and she had got out the code-book. Then, at his instructions, she had written upon a yellow telegraph-form a cipher message addressed to the mysterious "Meteforos, Paris." It read, when decoded:
The answers to his telegrams did not begin to arrive till noon, and then they were only formulae acknowledging receipt, which he did not need his code-book to decipher.
Stormonth's English Dictionary!" "By ginger!" he said. "I believe it's the code-book! Where is your cipher letter, Miss Erith!" The girl produced it with hands that trembled a trifle, spread it out under the light. Then she drew from her pocket a little pad and a pencil. "Quick," she said, "look for page 17!" "Yes, I have it!" "First column!" "Yes." "Now try the twentieth word from the top!"
"Well, it looks queer to me," burst out Jukes, greatly exasperated, and flung off the bridge. Captain MacWhirr was amazed at these manners. After a while he stepped quietly into the chart-room, and opened his International Signal Code-book at the plate where the flags of all the nations are correctly figured in gaudy rows.
In signalling by the navy code, the sentence to be sent is looked up in the code-book and its corresponding number is obtained. This number is never more than four figures, on account of the necessity of setting the signal with the least delay.
Therefore I sat down at the little desk and at once commenced to decode it. It was in the German spy-cipher, the same used all over the world by German secret agents the most simple yet at the same time the most marvellous and complicated code that the world has ever known. The keys to the code were in twelve sentences that one committed to memory. Hence no code-book need ever be carried.
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