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The
name
Julia
Czechenyi
flashed
across
my
memory
.
Scudder
had
said
it
was
the
key
to
the
Karolides
business
,
and
it
occurred
to
me
to
try
it
on
his
cypher
.
It
worked
.
The
five
letters
of
"
Julia
"
gave
me
the
position
of
the
vowels
.
A
was
J
,
the
tenth
letter
of
the
alphabet
,
and
so
represented
by
X
in
the
cypher
.
E
was
U
=
XXI
,
and
so
on
.
"
Czechenyi
'
gave
me
the
numerals
for
the
principal
consonants
.
I
scribbled
that
scheme
on
a
bit
of
paper
and
sat
down
to
read
Scudder
's
pages
.
In
half
an
hour
I
was
reading
with
a
whitish
face
and
fingers
that
drummed
on
the
table
.
I
glanced
out
of
the
window
and
saw
a
big
touring-car
coming
up
the
glen
towards
the
inn
.
It
drew
up
at
the
door
,
and
there
was
the
sound
of
people
alighting
.
There
seemed
to
be
two
of
them
,
men
in
aquascutums
and
tweed
caps
.
Ten
minutes
later
the
innkeeper
slipped
into
the
room
,
his
eyes
bright
with
excitement
.
"
There
's
two
chaps
below
looking
for
you
,
"
he
whispered
.
"
They
're
in
the
dining-room
having
whiskies-and-sodas
.
They
asked
about
you
and
said
they
had
hoped
to
meet
you
here
.
Oh
!
and
they
described
you
jolly
well
,
down
to
your
boots
and
shirt
.
I
told
them
you
had
been
here
last
night
and
had
gone
off
on
a
motor
bicycle
this
morning
,
and
one
of
the
chaps
swore
like
a
navvy
.
"
I
made
him
tell
me
what
they
looked
like
.
One
was
a
dark-eyed
thin
fellow
with
bushy
eyebrows
,
the
other
was
always
smiling
and
lisped
in
his
talk
.
Neither
was
any
kind
of
foreigner
;
on
this
my
young
friend
was
positive
.
I
took
a
bit
of
paper
and
wrote
these
words
in
German
as
if
they
were
part
of
a
letter
--
...
"
Black
Stone
.
Scudder
had
got
on
to
this
,
but
he
could
not
act
for
a
fortnight
.
I
doubt
if
I
can
do
any
good
now
,
especially
as
Karolides
is
uncertain
about
his
plans
.
But
if
Mr
T.
advises
I
will
do
the
best
I.
...
"
