By the "sample" in the letter was meant a sample of the explosive.
The "other business at hand" was spoken of as of tremendous
importance, more vital to the safeguards of Britain than the other
points mentioned in the letter.
There were sub-agents working at Cromarty. I did not know who they
were; they simply made their reports to me, signing their German
Secret Service number. I took up their points with Berlin. Well, the
"other business in hand" was to put a certain British army officer
under a monthly retaining fee of 100?? for which in the event of war
he was to commit an act of unspeakable treason and treachery on a
certain harbor defense.
I had judged my jurymen right, for they were very little impressed by
this letter. It was all too vague and even the fluent language of a
Crown Prosecutor does not impress a hard-headed Scotchman. I was
feeling in high spirits indeed, when I saw one of the attendants
approach Sir Anderson and deliver a document that had been handed into
court. I at once recognized it and my heart dropped into my shoes.
The Solicitor General read the document and smiled. I knew they had
me.
In addressing the court the Solicitor General produced two pieces of
thin paper--the same that had been brought in on the previous
afternoon.
"I have got to show the court," he said impressively, "the most deadly
code ever prepared against the safeguards of Great Britain.
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