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"
"
They
may
have
gone
tonight
,
"
someone
said
.
"
Not
they
.
They
have
their
own
snug
secret
way
,
and
they
wo
n't
be
hurried
.
I
know
Germans
,
and
they
are
mad
about
working
to
a
plan
.
Where
the
devil
can
I
get
a
book
of
Tide
Tables
?
"
Whittaker
brightened
up
.
"
It
's
a
chance
,
"
he
said
.
"
Let
's
go
over
to
the
Admiralty
.
"
We
got
into
two
of
the
waiting
motor-cars
--
all
but
Sir
Walter
,
who
went
off
to
Scotland
Yard
--
to
"
mobilize
MacGillivray
"
,
so
he
said
.
We
marched
through
empty
corridors
and
big
bare
chambers
where
the
charwomen
were
busy
,
till
we
reached
a
little
room
lined
with
books
and
maps
.
A
resident
clerk
was
unearthed
,
who
presently
fetched
from
the
library
the
Admiralty
Tide
Tables
.
I
sat
at
the
desk
and
the
others
stood
round
,
for
somehow
or
other
I
had
got
charge
of
this
expedition
.
It
was
no
good
.
There
were
hundreds
of
entries
,
and
so
far
as
I
could
see
10.17
might
cover
fifty
places
.
We
had
to
find
some
way
of
narrowing
the
possibilities
.
I
took
my
head
in
my
hands
and
thought
.
There
must
be
some
way
of
reading
this
riddle
.
What
did
Scudder
mean
by
steps
?
I
thought
of
dock
steps
,
but
if
he
had
meant
that
I
did
n't
think
he
would
have
mentioned
the
number
.
It
must
be
some
place
where
there
were
several
staircases
,
and
one
marked
out
from
the
others
by
having
thirty-nine
steps
.
Then
I
had
a
sudden
thought
,
and
hunted
up
all
the
steamer
sailings
.
There
was
no
boat
which
left
for
the
Continent
at
10.17
p.m.
Why
was
high
tide
so
important
?
If
it
was
a
harbour
it
must
be
some
little
place
where
the
tide
mattered
,
or
else
it
was
a
heavy-draught
boat
.
But
there
was
no
regular
steamer
sailing
at
that
hour
,
and
somehow
I
did
n't
think
they
would
travel
by
a
big
boat
from
a
regular
harbour
.
So
it
must
be
some
little
harbour
where
the
tide
was
important
,
or
perhaps
no
harbour
at
all
.
