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There my reasoning stopped. I made another list, which I headed "Guessed," but I was just as sure of the one as the other.

{{smaller block| (i) Place not harbour but open coast.

(3) Boat small—trawler, yacht or launch.

{3) Place somewhere on east coast between Cromer and Dover.}}

It Struck me as odd that I should be sittingting at that desk with a Cabinet Minister, Field Marshal, two high Government officials, and a French General watching me, while from the scribble of a dead man I was trying to drag a secret which meant life or death for us.