“No.”
“I will give it to you, directly, at my house. If you receive a telegram from me from Paris, beginning with your name: ‘Ignacio, do thus or so,’ you will know it is in the code.”
“I follow you. What’s up?”
“An affair the Minister is putting through, which we will not let him pull off without getting our share out of him. I will explain it to you, when I come back.”
“How long do you expect to be there?”
“Two weeks at most; but perhaps I’ll come right back.”
INDUCTION
On arriving at the train, Cæsar bought all the evening papers. In one of them he found an article entitled: The Projects of the Minister of Finance, and he read it carefully.
The writer said that the Minister of Finance had never been so closely identified with the Conservative Cabinet as at that moment; that he had plans for a number of projects for the salvation of the Spanish Treasury, which he would briefly explain.
“It’s a witty joke,” thought Cæsar.