“I shall write to-night. Remain patient and wait the reply of the Danish police. I’m open to bet anything that your friend was compelled to make himself scarce from Denmark, and carried with him confidential documents which were not his property and with which he had no right to deal.”
“Then if that really turns out so, it also proves another thing.”
“What’s that?”
“Why, if the documents were to be of any commercial value, they must have contained the actual key to the secret.”
“No doubt. The key was written clearly in those manuscript folios, all of which were burned save one,” was Frank’s reply. “It is the context of that document which we must obtain at all costs and at all hazards. And if the dead man has not lied I’m firmly of opinion that it will be found within the city of Copenhagen.”
Chapter Twelve.
Describes an Important Discovery.
Professor Griffin, for a scholar was a man of unusually rapid action.