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"You’re welcome to try, my lord But they’ll only waste your time with jibber-jabber They won’t act There’s so hout the department and the entire police district, it’s impossible to knoho to trust" Ransoation on my own"

"How can I help?" Gabriel asked

"Actually, it’s Lady St Vincent’s help that I need Before I explain, you should know there’s a stinger at the end of it"

Gabriel stared at hi into his coat pocket, Ransoes tucked inside He extracted a slip of paper and showed it to Pandora "Do you recognize this, ht from the printer’s office"

"Yes, it’s the little scrap I found at the printer’s works It looks like a sa It was the reason I followed Mrs O’Cairre out to the warehouse She’d dropped it, and I thought she raphic samples," Ransom said "It’s a cipher key A combination of alphabet letters that are used to decipher coded es"

Pandora’s eyes widened with interest "How exciting!"

That drew a quick smile from him "Actually, in es--police and criraphic experts to help unravel all the ain "Yesterday I caram that couldn’t be deciphered with the latest cipher key froestured with the slip of paper--"and it worked"

"What does it say?" Pandora asked

"It was sent to a known leader of Caipíní an Bháis, the group of radicals Mrs O’Cairre was connected with It concerns a reception that will be held at the Guildhall to, he carefully tucked the cipher key back into the notebook "The telegram was sent by someone in the Ho "How do you know that?"

"Usually, telegrams sent from the Home Office are written on blanks printed with a special nue It’s called a frank nuraraph office are instructed toabused A clerk saw a frank nuainst procedure, and passed it to me It was a careless mistake for the sender not to have used an unidentified blank"

"Why in God’s name would someone from the Home Office conspire with Irish anarchists?" Gabriel asked