[PW] ? flee at once ...

[Sea Wasp]

blau7103 at comcast.net wrote:
> The story that someone once sent a telegram to some friends saying 
>"all is discovered, flee at once," and one or more of them left town 
>is often attributed to Mark Twain, and sometimes to Arthur Conan Doyle 
>or G. K. Chesterton . . . can anyone provide a source citation that would 
> make this more than apocryphal?
> 

	I would suspect this comes from one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 
stories -- i.e., an event VERY like this happens in one of the 
Sherlock Holmes stories, wherein a letter that seemed mostly like 
irrelevant nonsense ("The supply of game in London is going steadily 
up...") turned out to be a code (read every third word) which said to 
the recipient "The game is up. Hudson has told all. Fly for your life."


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