about three
o’clock
I got rid of the innkeeper for the afternoon , for I was getting very warm in my search for the cypher . As I told you , it was a numerical cypher , and by an elaborate system of experiments I had pretty well discovered what were the nulls and stops . The trouble was the key word , and when I thought of the odd million words he might have used I felt pretty hopeless . But about three o'clock I had a sudden inspiration . The name Julia Czechenyi flashed across my memory . Scudder had said it was the key to the Karolides business , and it occurred to me to try it on his cypher . It worked .