The Twyford Code

by Janice Hallett

Then she gets a flourish in her voice and says: the past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.

The secret to concealment is movement. If you want to hide things in plain sight you need a busy place, where people pass by on their daily routines, where one more stranger won’t stand out. Alternatively, keep your contraband on the move. Sounds riskier but in the long run minimizes the likelihood of discovery; plus, you can change and limit the number of folk who know where it’s kept.

He sighs like he’s blowing out the queen’s candles.

No word of a lie, he’d call a job off halfway through. Takes courage that. There’s a basic human need to make time already spent seem worthwhile.

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That answers our question, doesn’t it? she whispers. That’s what Edith Twyford and her husband are trying to communicate. The gold transported to Canada during Operation Fish was stolen by the enemy.

Listen to this, Steve. The Christian fish symbol is derived from ick this [DecipherItTM language: Greek, modern] the Greek word for fish, whose letters form an ACROSTIC that secretly reads Jesus Christ, son of God our savior. Hence the fish became a secret symbol for Christians at a time when they were persecuted.

So the old girl hides a message about the gold being in Rushton tunnel for nine months.

It made good business sense. Can’t trust an addict.

Only, since Andy put me on the payroll I got less money, not more. Worse even than that, Andy were cool with me.

He hadn’t liked it when the missus spoke up. Offended him somehow. Funny, when you ask for money, people take it personal.