We made inquiries about you, Mr Hannay, and found you were respectable.

I thought I knew the motives for your disappearance--not only the police, the other one too--and when I got Harry's scrawl I guessed at the rest.

I have been expecting you any time this past week.' You can imagine what a load this took off my mind.

I felt a free man once more, for I was now up against my country's enemies only, and not my country's law.
'Now let us have the little note-book,' said Sir Walter.
It took us a good hour to work through it.

I explained the cypher, and he was jolly quick at picking it up.