Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon Page #5

Follow in that

order of frequency.

You mean you can

read these figures

as if they were letters

of the alphabet.

Elementary, my

dear Miss Eberli.

Give me one minute

and you shall

have the message.

And what is the

message, Watson?

This fellow Tobel

must have been

pulling our legs.

There's a lot

of gibberish.

L-y-z-I-m-t-h-k.

Reads like an eye

doctor's chart.

Dr. Tobel is a

brilliant scientist.

I saw immediately that

he wouldn't send us

a message so

simple to decipher.

Neither would he have

fixed these top figures

without a meaning.

Then it isn't the alphabet

substitution code.

Yes it is, Watson,

but with a very

clever variation.

You see the one,

two, three figures

means that we skip

letters in that order.

In other words,

observe Watson.

The first letter, which

is I skips one, becomes J.

The second letter, Y,

skips two and becomes A

and the third skips

three and becomes C.

J-a-c...

J-a-c-o-b, D-u-r-r-e-I.

Jacob Durrei, a

Swiss scientist

and friend of

Dr. Tobel's.

P-a-I-a-c-e, C-r-e-s...

Palace Crescent.

Right.

I say Holmes,

this man, Durrei,

must be important.

Obviously, Watson.

He must have some connection

with the bomb sight

or Tobel wouldn't have

taken so much trouble

to see that

I got his name.

Take down the rest

of the message.

J-o-s-e-p-h, Joseph.

E-m-d-d-I-a-c,

number four doesn't

make any sense.

He must have used

some other variations.

Four names and addresses,

Jacob Durrei,

Professor Fallow,

Dr. Kern

and this forth

infernal cipher

which doesn't

get the code.

Christmas boxes.

Watson, I'm beginning

to see the plan.

Dr. Tobel divided his

bomb sight into four parts

just as we brought it

back from Switzerland.

He's given one section

of the mechanism

to each of these

famous scientists.

What a fascinating plan.

You see each

part is useless

without the other three

and undoubtedly none

of these scientists

is known to each other.

Professor Moriarity

also has the code

and we must allow for his

ability to decipher it.

We haven't time to break

the fourth code now.

We must get to the

first three men

before Moriarity does.

Palace Crescent first?

Right.

I'll go and get a taxi.

Miss Eberli,

will you please wait

here till we return?

Thank you.

Yeah, where are

you going, sir?

Jacob Durrei live here?

Yes, but there's

been a bit of trouble

so you can't go in.

Inspector

Lestrade's orders.

Oh, Hey, just

a minute, sir.

That's Mr.

Sherlock Holmes.

Oh, very sorry, sir.

Dead?

Dead as a door nail.

Mr. Holmes, how did

you know about this?

The Yard only got here

fifteen minutes ago.

We'd better hurry Holmes.

There's still time to

save Fallow and Kern.

Too late, Watson.

By this time Fallow

and Kern are dead too.

What?

Deductions again,

Mr. Holmes?

Facts Inspector.

Oh, facts.

But how did you

know about them?

Elementary, my

dear Watson.

This man has been dead

for at least two hours

and Moriarity isn't

wasting any time.

Hello?

This is Lestrade.

Put me on to Mackety.

Hello, Mackety, hello,

this is Lestrade.

Do you know anything

about two men named

Fallow and Kern?

Fallow and Kern?

Both of them?

Oh.

Thank you.

The report only came in

two seconds before

I telephoned.

What on earth are we

going to do, Holmes?

Moriarity's got a big

start and he's got the code?

Note this Watson.

Scotland Yard reports

two murderers.

That makes three in all.

But there were four

boxes and four codes.

Obviously Moriarity

hasn't broken the

fourth code either.

What is the name

of the fourth man?

I can't remember.

What is the name

of the fourth man?

I have forgotten.

What is the name

of the fourth man?

I don't know.

I don't know.

What is the name

of the fourth man?

I can't remember.

What is the name

of the fourth man?

What is the name

of the fourth man?

But Holmes,

don't you realize what

this means to England?

We not only lose the

Tobel bomb sight ourselves

but Germany gets it.

Coventry, Bath,

Plymouth, London.

And not to

mention Norigno.

All over again but with

ten times the effect.

Don't you suppose

I realize that,

Sir Reginald?

Don't you suppose

I give my life

to decode the last

name of that message?

Well there must

be some solution.

Naturally, Watson.

I don't mean to be

rude, I need a drink.

I'm all in.

I can't think anymore.

All these letters

and figures

running through my brain

all twisted around.

Twisted around.

What?

That's it.

That's what?

Twisted around you said.

It's so simple I

never thought of it.

Reverse the slide.

You see, gentlemen.

These figures

are now identical

with the first

three names.

In other words,

all the figures of

name number four

are written backwards

and read from

right to left

until we reverse

the slide

when they read correctly

from left to right.

Now let's work on it.

Pencil Watson.

But, um, why

would Dr. Tobel

want to reverse the

figures of number four.

An added

precaution, Lestrade

in case the cipher should

fall into the wrong hands.

Quite a compliment

to you, Mr. Holmes.

I mean, Tobel

taken for granted

that you would

recognize the difference.

Thank you.

Ohh.

F-r-e-d-e-r-I-c-k,

H-o-f-f-n-e-r,

Frederick Hoffner.

S-I-o-a-n-e S-q-u...

Sloane Square.

We must leave at once.

Wait a minute.

Information?

Will you please

give me the address

of a Frederick Hoffner

in Sloane Square.

I'll break this code.

I'll find the name

of that fourth man

before Holmes does.

There is not

much more time.

The submarine is to

pick us up off Shanese

in six hours.

I've beaten Holmes so far.

We don't need the

confounded submarine

with the bomber

sight in tact.

But Tobel is

unconscious again.

As last resort we

could abandon the code

and take Tobel

to Germany.

We'll try Tobel

again in here.

Wait.

Spilling that

glass of water

was a very

fortunate accident,

my dear street brawler.

Dr. Tobel's perversion

of the cipher

was so simple

that it fooled us.

I was looking for

something ingenious.

This is ingenious.

He simply

reversed the cipher.

F-r-e-d-e-r-I-c-k,

H-o-f-f-n-e-r,

S-I-o-a-n-e.

Frederick Hoffner,

Sloane Square.

Of course.

Hoffner would be the

perfect selection.

Then you want us

to tend to Hoffner?

No, we can use Hoffner.

He's a brilliant

scientist.

If Dr. Tobel doesn't

recover from your persuasion,

Hoffner would be able

to put the four

parts together.

You and Godfrey

will call on Hoffner

and you will

bring him here

with the fourth section

of the bomb sight.

Hurry.

Put up your hands,

Professor Hoffner.

I'll take the box.

We Meet again, Professor.

Sherlock Holmes.

An improvement on

the other make-up.

Don't you think

so, Professor.

So you think you've

beaten me, Holmes?

I have.

The real Hoffner

is safely

in the hands of

Scotland Yard.

But I still have Tobel

and now I shall sell

Germany the inventor

instead of the invention.

You've learned

nothing from him

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