I've only a note to scribble to Senator Henderson." Warrington found the desk.

Upon it lay a tablet.

He wrote hurriedly: "Start your campaign; I am in it now to the last ditch." As he re-read it, he observed a blur in the grain of the paper.

On closer inspection he saw that it was a water-mark.

He had seen one similar, but where?
His heart began thumping his ribs.