A Daughter of Delilah — page 94: what you’re looking at

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A LIVELY SCHEME. 85 told me that it sours the best of men. I have your letter here still, and in answer to it put the cipher in the New York Herald. .I rented a furnished room at the address you wrote to in Brooklyn, and was supposed to be an old woman who went out washing by the day. I passed the place out of curiosity this morning, and observed that it was in the hands of the police.’’ He laughed lightly. ‘You have my last letter?’’ asked Roseberry. ‘‘I should like to see it once more and then destroy it.”’ ‘It is yours,’’ replied Palmer, taking from his pocket- book an artfully constructed enigmatical letter headed ‘‘Hrankfort State Prison,’’ at which Roseberry gazed with mixed emotions. : Attached to it was a solution of the puzzle in the hand- writing of Isabel, which read as follows: “Shall escape midnight of tenth, and board freight car — to tunnel between Covington and Bridgley.’’ ‘That cost me many hours to construct,’’ he laughed. ‘My warden was all right, but one never knows to whom the letters are submitted before they are sent to the mail.’’ ‘You had assistance from the inside?’’ suggested Palmer, adding quickly, ‘‘and outside, too. I hope that you appreciate the fact that I have put my head in the noose equally with you, and that we pull together now, for good or evil?’’ ‘“T have yet to learn what schemes are on foot. I must admit that your appearance is vastly improved by the dye in your hair and mustache. Dark-brown is preferable to -red at any time, and a face the type of yours is the better for being half-hidden by a carefully trimmed beard.’’ Gomicboo CS