Ah, we owe you
a great deal, Louise, and we shall not forget it, never. You will
be very careful while I am gone?"
"Absolutely. When will you return to me, Henri?"
"To-morrow morning at the latest. This afternoon the false coaling
station plans are to be turned over to our accomplice in the War
Department and in exchange he is to give us something else - the
secret of which I spoke. You see the trail leads up into high
circles. It is very much more important than you suppose and
discovery might lead to a dangerous international complication just
now."
"Then you are to meet your friend in Washington to-night? When do
you start, Henri? Don't let the time slip by. There must be no
mistake this time as there was when we were working for Japan and
almost had the blue prints of Corregidor at Manila only to lose
them on the streets of Calcutta."
"Trust me. We are to meet about nine o'clock and therefore I leave
on the limited at three-thirty, in about an hour. From the station
I am going straight to the house on Z Street - let me see, the
cipher says the number is 101 - and ask for a man named Gonzales.
I shall use the name Montez. He is to appear, hand over the package
- that thing I have told you about - then I am to return here by
one of the midnight trains.
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