wiki-illiam #107: q12
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i: Rosa
I've seen SB's tentative answer to this, but it has vanished! Sean can you repost it (SB via googlebooks)
ii: Aymer
Aymer is VALLANCE in Free Fishers (SB via googlebooks)
iii: Reinmar
Reinmar is DR CHRISTOPH in "The Loathly Opposite", a story in The Runagates Club (SB via googlebooks)
iv: Clarence Donne
The Graf OTTO VON SCHWABING, Richard Hannay's foe in various John Buchan novels, was an officer of the Imperial Guard and German spy notorious good with disguise: in Mr Standfast he poses as a Kansan journalist called Clarence Donne (RB via google)
v: Alexander Thomson
SANDY ARBUTHNOT uses this name in The Three Hostages (BBP, google)
vi: Captain Theophilus Digby
In Buchan's The 39 Steps, A freelance spy called Franklin P. Scudder calls on Hannay to ask for help, but is murdered -- the corpse is given the name Digby for reasons I can't recall (PJ)
vii: Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson is ALASTAIR MACLEAN in Midwinter (SB via googlebooks)
viii: James Smith
James Smith is VALDEMAR HARALDSEN in The Island of Sheep
(SB via googlebooks)
ix: Newsom
In The House of the Four Winds, Newsom the chauffeur is really PRINCE JOHN (DDD via googlebooks)
x: Tuke
In Power-house, Tuke is really ROUTH (DDD via googlebooks)
i: Rosa
I've seen SB's tentative answer to this, but it has vanished! Sean can you repost it (SB via googlebooks)
Aymer is VALLANCE in Free Fishers (SB via googlebooks)
Reinmar is DR CHRISTOPH in "The Loathly Opposite", a story in The Runagates Club (SB via googlebooks)
The Graf OTTO VON SCHWABING, Richard Hannay's foe in various John Buchan novels, was an officer of the Imperial Guard and German spy notorious good with disguise: in Mr Standfast he poses as a Kansan journalist called Clarence Donne (RB via google)
SANDY ARBUTHNOT uses this name in The Three Hostages (BBP, google)
In Buchan's The 39 Steps, A freelance spy called Franklin P. Scudder calls on Hannay to ask for help, but is murdered -- the corpse is given the name Digby for reasons I can't recall (PJ)
Andrew Watson is ALASTAIR MACLEAN in Midwinter (SB via googlebooks)
James Smith is VALDEMAR HARALDSEN in The Island of Sheep
(SB via googlebooks)
In The House of the Four Winds, Newsom the chauffeur is really PRINCE JOHN (DDD via googlebooks)
In Power-house, Tuke is really ROUTH (DDD via googlebooks)
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Date: 2012-01-11 10:41 pm (UTC)"Dr. Christoph had gone as medical officer in November '14 to the Ypres Salient with a Saxon regiment, and had spent the winter there. In '15 he had been in Champagne, and in the early months of '16 at Verdun, till he was invalided with rheumatic fever."
"I assumed that this home duty was medical, until he said something about getting rusty in his professional work. Then it appeared that it had been some job connected with Intelligence. 'I am reputed to have a little talent for mathematics,' he said. 'No. I am no mathematical scholar, but, if you understand me, I have a certain mathematical aptitude. My mind has always moved happily among numbers. Therefore I was set to construct and to interpret cyphers, a strange interlude in the noise of war. I sat in a little room and excluded the world, and for a little I was happy.'"
"I had a sudden inspiration.
"I took a sheet of note-paper from the stand, scribbled the word Reinmar on it, and shoved it towards him."
"But it was I who got the big surprise. He stopped thunderstruck, as soon as his eye caught the word, blushed scarlet over every inch of face and bald forehead, seemed to have difficulty in swallowing, and then gasped. 'How did you know?'"
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