"Nothing of any value to us," said the captain. "I think we might give the letters back to the prisoner. His people idolise him, evidently. Well, the only thing left is this." He took up a crumpled piece of music paper. "Schwank seems to write music in his spare time--a setting of the Hymn of Hate perhaps. Our find is no use. Very good, Amory, that’s all." But Kenneth, rendered suspicious of everything by his recent discoveries, remembered that he had found a similar piece of music paper in the trench some weeks before. "Before you tear that up, sir," he said, "I think I’d let Randall have a look at it. We found a paper like it in our trench." "You think there may be something in it?" "I’m rather suspicious, sir, but I’d rather say no more until Randall has seen it." The captain sent a man to find Harry. When he arrived, Kenneth asked him whether he still had the piece of music paper he had found. After rummaging in his pocket Harry drew the paper out. The two pieces were laid side by side. "Well?" said the captain, when Harry had examined them for a few moments. The other officers crowded round in an interested group. "They are not alike except in one particular," said Harry: "that neither is a recognisable tune." He whistled the notes. "Very ugly, certainly," said the captain. "Any further suggestion, Amory?" "What do you call that note in music?" Kenneth asked Harry, pointing to the first note on Stoneway’s paper. "B flat," said Harry. "And the next?" "E, then D, then E again; the next is A sharp above the stave." "What are you driving at, Amory?" asked the captain. "I was wondering if I could make a word out of it, but _bedea_ doesn’t begin any word either in English or German that I know of. Try the other paper." "F sharp, A, G, E," said Harry. "It’s the sharps and flats that bother me," said Kenneth. "Do they ever call them anything else?" "No ... Wait a bit. The Germans call B flat B, and B natural H. I remember toiling away at a fugue on the name BACH years ago. I say, give me a minute. I’ve got a notion." He sat down at the table, took out pencil and began to write the names of the notes on the lines and spaces, beginning with A on the second leger line below the stave. Having written H on the third line, instead of writing A on the second space he wrote I, and on the third space J. Then he paused, looking reflectively at the notes originally written. Except in the case of B flat, all the accidentals were sharps. "We’ll try this," he said. On the third space he wrote C sharp, and called it K, and so proceeding, completed the alphabet by writing two notes, the second sharpened, on each line and space. Z fell on the third space above the stave. "Now try again," he said to Kenneth. Kenneth took up von Schwank’s paper, and read off the names of the notes in this new notation. The first four letters were _Sage_. "That’s good German," he said. "Go on," said the captain. "This is very interesting."