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Without replying Miller led the way through the silent house, his torch and occasional whispered direction guiding them to the sub-cellar. Inside the chamber under the parking of the house, Henry worked with tireless energy, taking down the coded messages as they flashed from the skilled fingers of the Government operators in the great War, State, and Navy Department but a stone's throw away.
But the laboratory did not answer! "It may be your sending apparatus," I suggested. "Send your message down to Headquarters with their high power they'll get Robins quickly enough." He tried that sending also his answer to the previous coded message Headquarters had sent him. It was now 11:45. We waited some eight minutes, during which time I rushed back to the house.
In this second item the substance has been culled from a long speech in a foreign tongue, translated, coded, and then decoded. The operators who receive the messages transcribe them as they go along, and I am told that a good operator can write fifteen thousand or even more words per eight hour day, with a half an hour out for lunch and two ten minute periods for rest.
Info is coded and split into small packets. Each packet is numbered and addressed; it heads toward its destination by any route that is open; it doesn't have to travel with its sister packets. A program at the receiving end collects the packets and reassembles them correctly. No need to dedicate one string to one conversation at a time." Joe paused for breath.
"How did they know you were going to investigate them in the first place?" "After our meeting with Commander Walters," said Connel, "we sent a special coded message to the Solar Alliance Delegate here on Venus. His secretary intercepted the message, used stolen priorities for himself and two assistants to get to Earth and back on an express space liner without being missed."
Here, let me hand it to you in my own way, and I'll answer any sort of question after. I got men chasing up the forest camps. You know that. Well, I get their reports right here in this city at my office. They're read carefully, and anything that looks good is coded, and sent on to me wherever I am.
"Tell them we will exchange electric power for a supply of these foods. Tell them we want samples of half a dozen of the natural substances." Again Mannion coded and sent, received and translated, sent again. "They agree, Captain," he said at last. "They want us to fire a power lead out about a mile; they'll come in close and shoot us a specimen case with a flare on it.
"I want to go," Ted answered very quietly. "Canada is second only to my loyalty for my own country." Major Church and Captain Wilson gave Ted a hand-clasp which showed their feelings. "You are true blue, my lad," said Major Church. "We will have information as to location from Mr. Smythe very soon. You can understand the need of secrecy when our wires are coded.
That he was chased to my door by his own Agent-General in a motor; that they turned my study into a Cabinet Meeting which I was not invited to attend; that the local telegraph all but broke down beneath the strain of hundred word coded cables; and that I practically broke into the house of a stranger to get him telephonic facilities on a Sunday, are things I overlook.
Let us draft the report for the head office." But Eustace was too unnerved to render any assistance, and it was Harding who, single-handed, drafted and coded a brief message reporting what had been discovered. Not until this message was handed to him did Eustace move. "That's my death warrant," he said gloomily as he signed it. Harding took the message and left the office.
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