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Title: The Double Spy

Author: Dan T. Moore

Illustrator: Sanford Kossin

Release Date: March 26, 2010 [EBook #31788]

Language: English

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THE DOUBLE SPY

By Dan T. Moore

Illustrator: Sanford Kossin

_Meet the man with no name. Nothing cool about this cat. He
was built along the lines of a necktie rack, weighed
slightly more than a used napkin, and was as shy as the ante
in a crooked poker game._

_No sex appeal there, you'd say. Yet within the space of a
few days every woman in the country melted into quivering
protoplasm at the very thought of this mystery man!_

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DEAR EXCELLENCY:

The communicating time will be here soon. I have started this letter
early to be sure it will be ready. This is the first time I have felt
safe when communicating with you. Our enemies at home can solve such
extraordinarily complex ciphers that I have always been uneasy before.
They cannot possibly solve an entirely new language like this one; a
language based on an utterly different theory from our own; with new
symbols; and even set down with a different writing instrument. Our
long periods of study together have brought their reward. Your
Excellency, I appreciate the rare privilege of knowing a language that
only one other person at home knows, and that one person, yourself.

I am having many dangers and horrors in America. As we both realized,
it is impossible to carry out my mission without lots of their money.
I could not even begin my work, nor buy the expensive equipment needed
for my experime