This telegram, sir"-- unfolding it--"is from my private secretary, a most careful and trustworthy man of affairs.

I feel certain, Don Luis, that he would not have sent this telegram unless he had had the strongest reasons.

Now, in our office code a wire relating to a wreck of Train Thirteen--there's no such train on our schedule--means always just one thing.

The significance of this telegram is, 'Don't on any account put through the impending deal.'" If Don Luis Montez felt any inward start he controlled his facial expression wonderfully.
"Senor Haynes," he replied, "I don't understand the meaning of your code message.

You have no deal here to put through.