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Followed him again, and waited at another. I might have flung him into the river from the Embankment, and I refrained. And then whether it began at a dark corner or in a group of people I cannot tell, but I suddenly discovered that I was following a stranger a stranger of about Mayes's form and stature. It was what I should have expected, and provided for, in London streets at night!
That is the explanation of Mayes's proposals to you to go through a 'form of initiation. If you had consented, the 'form' would have been a process of hypnotism. Once or twice repeated, and you would have been wholly under his control, so that if he willed it and forbade you, you could tell nothing of what he wished kept secret, and you would have committed any crime he might suggest.
Mayes's stronghold was taken, but Mayes had escaped us once again; the cage was in our hands, but the bird had flown. Martin Hewitt, however, had his plans, as he was soon to show.
"Why should Mayes need to send his confederate instructions by written note? We know the nature of his hold over his subordinates, and we know that it means personal communication. Also, the cheque was in Mayes's own hands last night. More, Mayes knows very well that I have read that cypher has known it for some time; otherwise how could we have discovered the bonds in the case of the Lever Key?
And the triangle was suggestive, too." "Were Mayes's victims marked in that way in Hayti?" "No, there was no mark. But" here Mr. Peytral's features assumed a curious expression "there are things which are not believed in this country which are laughed at, in fact, and called superstition.
He seems to have wondered at Mayes's mysterious movements for a long time, and so kept his eye on him and made inquiries. It seems that Mayes sometimes uses a back way, through the window you saw on the opposite side of the little area, by way of that ladder you mentioned. It's quite plain this fellow knows something, from the particulars about that ladder.
As for myself I only remained long enough to ascertain that the police could find no trace of the direction of Mayes's flight in the immediate neighbourhood. They had little to aid them.
I was well enough able to do that, and, indeed, I had only fainted from the pain of the strain on my wrist. Several policemen were in the room, beside Hewitt and Plummer. Mayes's stronghold was in the hands of his enemies. Then I suddenly remembered. "The Admiralty code!" I cried. "It was in the office desk. Have you got it?" "No," Hewitt answered. "Come, Plummer, up the ladder!"
Not that we're likely to get the code from him; that's passed out, sure enough, in Mayes's hands or else his pockets." To this confident expression of opinion Hewitt offered no reply, and presently we alighted at his office, eager to learn if Peytral had given the information Hewitt so much desired.
Moon's description of the successive disappearances of Plummer and myself, and of our continued absence, so aroused Hewitt's suspicions that he instantly procured help from the nearest station, and approached the door of Mayes's office. A knock being unanswered, the door was instantly broken in.
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