‘and what’s more, I don’t believe there is any.’
Tommy sighed and brought the tips of his fingers together in the most approved Sherlock Holmes fashion.
‘Exactly. Yet you read the papers as much – in fact, more than I do. But I have observed and you have not. If you will look at today’s Daily Leader, you will see that in the middle of the downstroke of the D is a small white dot, and there is another in the L of the same word. But in yesterday’s paper the white dot is not in DAILY at all. There are two white dots in the L of LEADER. That of the day before again has two dots in the D of DAILY. In fact, the dot, or dots, are in a different position every day.’
‘Why?’ asked Tuppence.
‘That’s a journalistic secret.’
‘Meaning you don’t know, and can’t guess.’
‘I will merely say this – the practice is common to all newspapers.’
‘Aren’t you clever?’ said Tuppence. ‘Especially at drawing red herrings across the track. Let’s go back to what we were talking about before.’
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