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Updated: May 15, 2025
The man at the table threw down his cards. "What the devil do you want, Smith?" "An important despatch from Washington has just arrived, sir. I have brought it up with the codebook." "From Washington at this time of the night," he exclaimed thickly. "Come in here, Smith." He raised the curtains leading into a small anteroom, and turned up the electric light.
It consisted of brief phrases and single words alternately; the single words the codebook offered a selection of a couple of hundred of them were meaningless, and employed solely to separate the phrases; and for half an hour Herr Haase's task was to separate this ballast from the cargo of the message and jettison it.
Then the Committee of Ten indeed knew everything had known that she would be away, had known of the window cleaners, had known of the safe, and her possession of the code. Cold and calculating rage filled her. Niburg had played her false, of course. But Niburg was only a go-between. He had known nothing of the codebook. He had given the Committee the letter, and by now they knew all that it told.
As the message reached the president it read: "Consinor westcote tag company tag sis in it oisin phenix phin sulfur uin armordale." The president reached for his pile of various code-books and looked up the strange words. He found "phoenix" in one codebook with its meaning given as "extremely ill, death imminent."
It proved to be from Dickson, and had been sent off from Dover. I took my codebook from my pocket and translated the message upon the back of the telegraph-form. It ran as follows "Man with triangular scar upon left cheek, brown bag and travelling rug, boarded train at Herne Hill, went through to Dover, and has booked to Paris. Am following him according to instructions."
He told the operator that he and Saunders were just practicing; they were going to be detectives, he said, and rigged up a cipher that they were learning together so they wouldn't need any codebook. Pretty thin that but you can't prove it wasn't the truth. I managed to find out that Baumberger buys cigars and papers of Jim Wakely sometimes; not always, though."
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