The Ibex Mystery - Part 3

Lair of the Mounties! Represent Episode 36 in Lair of the Mounties. Being the third and the concluding part of the I-Bex robbery. In this story we find Inspector Blair beginning to see a solution of the biggest problem in his career.

The mysterious succession of gold robberies. First the cross-channel boat I-Bex, and then the Atlantic liner, Altonia. A stuffed on high seas and robbed of bullion shipments. The circumstances point to a deep-blade plot in which not private gangs but nations are involved.

With Commander Reed of the British Naval Intelligence, Blair is at CUM Seton in Devonshire. They are lucky shot. Blair has just succeeded in deciphering one of the mysterious wireless messages sent by the pirate concerned.

Reed old man, we've got it. Good heavens, but they'd never use a simple code like that. I don't think it's simple. If we hadn't picked up that key notation, we'd never have got it anyway.

Well, here it is. Prepare to intercept liner Arcadia, leaving Southampton 4pm Saturday. Twelve. And then there's a nautical position given. Attitude and longitude and so forth. See where it is, Reed? Oh, that's simple. It's off the Irish coast.

Not far from where the Lusitania was put down. It's an ideal place for a submarine to lie up. And that's tomorrow night. Yes. Tomorrow's the night. But this time they lose out. That's if this message isn't a fake.

We'll be on hand with half the British Navy. I don't see what use that is. Just means there won't be any gold robbery. That's all it does mean. What's your idea Blair? I was thinking there ought to be some way to drop in on this party after it gets nicely started.