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Updated: May 25, 2025
She played men and men played her but the man that had won was not yet to be found. Two only of those whom she tried had failed to succumb to her fascinating alluringness and these two she had loved, and still did both love and hate. "Returning then to the code-book and the letter," said she. "How about the latter; have you found Carpenter susceptible to persuasion?"
A discreet knock at the door heralded the entrance of a messenger, who laid an envelope on the table and silently disappeared. "Western Union," muttered the superintendent. "This may be something else from Pinkerton's, Sir Hilary. Don't go yet." And, tearing open the envelope, he crossed the room and pulled down a code-book. In a little he had deciphered the cable. "We're getting closer," he said.
"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.
A flagstaff stood in the garden on a grassy platform, half-way down the cliff-side, and the boy at his earnest wish had been given charge of it. On weekdays, as a rule he hoisted two flags an ensign on the gaff, and a single code-flag at the mast-head; but on Sundays he usually ran up three or four, and with the help of the code-book spelt out some message to the harbour.
"Your hunch as to the key-word is partially correct," she replied slowly, "but it does not, however, reach quite to the last conclusion. I may not explain now, Marston. Do you go to the meeting, with the code-book as your only exhibit. It should be indisputable proof of your good faith, and our honest belief that the letter does not concern the United States.
None moved, or but slightly. There was no putting together of heads, no consulting. Evidently all had been carefully prearranged. "Look on the table, Countess. You will find there some papers you will perhaps recognize." She took a step toward the table and glanced down. The code-book lay there. Also the letter she had sent by Peter Niburg. She made no effort to disclaim them.
It took more than an hour; at the end, as a full measure of good faith and because it was of no further use to him he having preserved a copy Marston insisted that Carpenter retain the original of the French code-book and have a copy made, after which the book could be returned to him at the Chateau. During this hour and more his hand was in and out in his side coat-pocket.
"I don't know yet." Vaux smiled. "All right; go ahead, my dear Miss Erith. You're officially detailed for this delightful job. Do it your own way, but do it " "Thank you so much!" " In twenty-four hours," he added grimly. "Otherwise I'll turn it over to the P.I." "Oh! That IS brutal of you!" "Sorry. But if you can't get the code-book in twenty-four hours I'll have to call in the Service that can."
Having finished, she destroyed, by burning, a number of papers watching until the last ash had turned from dull red to smoking gray. The code-book she hesitated over, but at last, with a shrug of her shoulders, she returned it to its hiding-place in the jewel case. Coupled with her bitterness was a sense of relief. Only when the papers were destroyed had she realized the weight they had been.
So back by the water-front, where he spent a pleasant and interesting forenoon. At one o'clock there were still no signs of Mitchell. So Steve, Mahomet-like, sought his office. The mise-en-scene was admirable. A well-littered desk, two 'phones, code-book, directory, typewriter, file-books, a busy bookkeeper, a fair stenographer no detail was omitted.
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