Chapter 15 Chapter fifteen

"I should have known," Qiu Peng said. She drank as much old brandy as she could to refresh her shattered nerves, and looked at Tommy, at Mr. Grant, and at Alberto with a smile.Albert was sitting there with a pint of beer in front of him, grinning so hard that he couldn't close his mouth. "Qiupeng, tell us everything." Tang Mi urged her to explain everything. "You speak first." "I don't have much to say." Tang Mi said. "I discovered the secret of the transmitter purely by accident. I thought I could get away with it, but Haidak is too shrewd to hide it from him."

Qiu Peng nodded and said: "He called Mrs. Spurrow right away. Then she ran out in the driveway by the gate with a hammer and waited. She had only been away from the card table for about three minutes. I did notice that she came back a little Out of breath, but I didn't suspect her." "After that," Tang Mi said. "It's Albert's credit. He smelled 'Smuggler's Row' all the way like a hound. I also snored for help. He understood immediately, and then he went to report the news. Mr. Grant. The two of them arrived very late that night. I contacted them again by snoring, and it was agreed that I should not move for a while, so that when their ship arrives, I can catch them all."

Mr. Grant incidentally explained his part of the story. "When Haidak went out this morning, our brothers occupied the 'smugglers' resting place'. This evening, their boat was captured." "Then," Tang Mi said. "It's your time." "Well, I've been a fool all along. I've suspected everybody here, but not Mrs. Spurrow. I did feel threatened, as if I were in danger. Once, I overheard that Mentioned the phone call on the fourth of that month. This feeling only came after I heard that phone call. There were three of them. I thought Mrs. Pliner and Mrs. O'Rourke were the most dangerous. Big mistake. Really dangerous people It's the inconspicuous Mrs. Spurrow."

"I was confused until he disappeared. Tommy knew this. At that time, Albert and I were planning a plan, so Tony Marston fell from the sky. At first, it seemed as if It's nothing, just the kind of young people who usually pursue Deborah. But there are two things that make people have to use their brains. First, after I talked with him, I became more and more convinced that I hadn't I've seen him, and he hasn't been to our house. Second, although he seems to know all about my activities in Lehanton, he thinks Tommy is in Scotland. That seems questionable. If he knows about us , he should know Tang Mi's situation. Because my actions are more or less unofficial activities, so I find this strange."

"Mr. Grant told me there's fifth column operations everywhere, and they pick the least likely places to do them. So why don't they send a guy pretending to be Deborah's gang?" , to lie to us? I'm not sure, but I'm still alert enough, so I made up a password to communicate with each other, of course! Our real password is a postcard, but I'm sure Tony told a lie and told him the password of 'Gu Peng Wan Li, Wan Li Peng Cheng'." "And so he took the bait, which is what I had hoped for. I got a letter this morning, and that's where his tell comes out."

"I've already arranged everything in advance. Just call the tailor and say no to sample. That's the notification that the fish has been hooked." "Ah!" Albert said. "I didn't think it was that weird. I took a bakery's wagon to it. We dumped a bunch of stuff at the gate. Probably anise..., maybe something that smells like anise." "Later," Qiu Peng continued, "I walked out of the Xiaoyao Hotel and cast myself into the trap. Of course, the bakery's truck followed me to the train station without any difficulty. When I was buying a ticket, someone came up behind me, I heard that I want to buy a train ticket to Yalu. After that, if you are not careful, it may be very difficult."

"Hounds are always good at smelling," said Mr. Grant. "They found your trail at the station, and later smelled the soles of your shoes worn on the tires. We followed this clue to the bush, then up to the cross of stones, and then followed you across the grassland. Enemy behold When you leave, they also drive away from that place, how do they know that we have caught up with you without any effort?" "But," said Albert, "I was still taken aback. Because, I knew you were in the house, but I didn't know if you would be in danger. We climbed in through the back window just in time for rescue." you."

"I knew you would come," Qiu Peng said. "I was just trying to stall for as long as I could. If I hadn't seen you opening the door behind him, I might have pretended to recruit. But that wasn't the real excitement. Suddenly it all came to me, and I realized how much I Stupid, why didn't you pay attention? This is really exciting." "How did you understand?" Tang Mi asked. "It's the nursery rhyme 'Elder Goose, Granny Goose'." Qiu Peng explained immediately, "I mentioned this nursery rhyme to Haidak, and he immediately turned pale. It wasn't because the nursery rhyme was so boring or superficial. I immediately realized Going there and singing has an effect on him. At the same time, I saw the expression on the face of the woman named Anna, which was very similar to the expression of the Polish woman. Of course, I thought of King Solomon at that time, and I suddenly understood it."

Tang Mi snorted angrily. "Qiupeng, if you say this again, I'll kill you with my own hands! Suddenly realized? What did you realize? What does King Solomon have to do with this matter?" "You remember the story of the two women who sued King Solomon over a child? King Solomon said, 'All right. Cut the child in half.' And the pretend mother said, 'All right.' But The real mother said, 'No! Let her take the child!' She couldn't bear to see her child killed, don't you think? Mrs. Spurrow shot and killed the foreign woman that night You all said it was a miracle, because the child could easily have been killed if we hadn't been careful. Of course, if we had paid attention, we would have known it then. If the child had been her own, she would not have Dare to take that risk. It means: Betty is not her own daughter. This is why she must kill that foreign woman."

"why?" "Of course it's because that foreign woman is the child's real mother." Qiu Peng's voice trembled a little. "Poor! Poor desperado! She crossed over to England as a penniless refugee, and Mrs. Spurrow adopted her baby, and she is very grateful." "Why did Mrs. Spurrow adopt the child?" "For the purpose of disguising! It is a clever means of disguising using psychology. No one would have thought that a great spy would drag the child into the whirlpool. I never seriously suspected Mrs. Spurrow, and the main reason was Just here, just because she had such a child. But Betty's own mother missed her very much afterward, and she found Mrs. Spurrow's address, so she came here, and she hung around, waiting Chance. When the last chance came, she took the baby."

"Of course, Mrs. Spurrow was going crazy when she found out that Betty was missing. But, anyway, she didn't want to ask the police for help. So she wrote a letter pretending to be on the floor of her room." Found it. She used this trap to lure Hydak into helping her. Later, when we found the poor woman, she was afraid she would show her feet, so I shot her dead. Not only is she definitely not a person who knows how to use a gun, Besides, she's a good shot! Yes, she killed the poor woman. So I don't feel sorry for her at all, she's a very bad person." Qiu Peng paused, and then continued: "Another thing. It might have given me a hint that Vanda Polanska and Betty looked alike. Whenever I see that woman, I always think of Betty. And one more thing, that is That child played with my shoelaces. In fact, she probably saw Mrs. Spurrow doing that. She imitated it. Not Carl DeNemo! But when Mrs. Spurrow saw her playing with my shoelaces, she Some evidence was placed in Carl's room on purpose for us to discover, so the story of the secret ink soaking the shoelaces is rendered more realistic." "I'm very glad that Carl has nothing to do with this matter." Tang Mi said. "In the past, I felt very fond of this child." "He didn't let our military shoot him? Did he?" Qiu Peng noticed that he used the word "past", so he asked. Mr. Grant shook his head. "He's all right," he said. "Actually, there's one more thing that might surprise you." Qiu Peng laughed, and she said: "I'm so happy! I'm so happy for Sheila! Of course we were foolish enough to mistake Mrs. Priner for an enemy spy." "She has a relationship with the IRA (Irish Republican Army) and nothing else," Mr Grant said: "I used to be a little skeptical of Mrs. O'Rourke, and sometimes of the Carlyles..." "But I suspect Major Brechelle." Tang Mi interjected. "That poor sentimental person, that woman everyone treats as Betty's mother! It turns out she's been working in the dark all along!" "Not some sad, poor woman," said Mr. Grant. "A very dangerous character, and a clever actress. And, sadly, she's British." Qiu Peng said: "Then I don't feel sorry for her at all, and I don't admire her at all. She didn't even do it for the country." She looked at Mr. Grant with a new curiosity. . "Did you find what you were looking for?" Mr. Grant nodded. "It's all in that old, photocopied set of children's books." "It's those bad storybooks that Betty said!" Qiu Peng said in amazement. "It's a 'bad' plot!" said Mr. Grant coldly. "'Jack the Trumpeter' has a detailed plan for our Navy deployment. 'John in the Air' also contains our Air Force deployment. Our Army situation, in that 'There's a little guy with a little gun ' is also correctly recorded." "And what about the 'Elder Goose, Granny Goose'?" Mr Grant said: "That book is still written in invisible ink, which can be revealed if a moderate test drug is used. It has a list of important people. These people are all sworn to serve the enemy and are ready to assist them in their invasion of England. Among them are two policemen. The chief of the bureau, a deputy commander of the air force, two generals, the director of an armory factory, a cabinet minister, and many police inspectors and commanders of the local defense forces, various minor figures in the army and navy, also have our own intelligence department staff." Tang Mi and Qiu Peng stared at him intently. Grant shook his head. "You don't know how powerful German propaganda is. They specialize in appealing to people's psychology, that is, the desire for power, which can also be said to be a kind of greed. These people do not hesitate to sell their country, not for money, but for a kind of exaggeration They are ready to accomplish a task for that country, so they will feel a kind of exaggerated and delusional pride in their own ability. The world is as black as crows, and every country has this situation. A psychology of Hyosung (Lucifer) worship, that is, boasting and desire for personal honor!" He added: "You have to understand that if you have people like that in our government agencies who issue contradictory orders, if you have people who disrupt our military operations, the enemy's plan of aggression is bound to succeed." "So, what now?" Qiu Peng asked. Mr. Grant smiled. "Now," said he, "let them come! We are ready."