get the house so that he can investigate the location of the missing fortune. Tommy and Tuppence look over the papers and realise that one of them contains a puzzle anagram. They work it out and the solution is "potatoes". Another of the papers, on the theme of recipes, refers to the trick of burying new potatoes in a tin to keep them fresh for the winter; they realise that this is their lead. They question the gardener to see if the old lady ever used this technique and find out that she did. They dig in the spot and find several tins of potatoes and, in one of the tins, a bag containing two hundred pounds in gold sovereigns, twenty thousand pounds in banknotes, and a string of expensive pearls. Monica Deane and her mother will have their fortune, and the Deanes and the Beresfords will celebrate a happy Christmas. The Ambassador's Boots The Blunt's agency is visited by Randolph Wilmott, the United States Ambassador to Great Britain. He arrived back from a trip to his home country a week ago. Soon after his return, his valet informed him that his kit bag, which carried his initials, had been mistakenly taken by another passenger on board the liner with the same initials – Senator Ralph Westerham, also from the US – but quickly returned by that man's valet. The puzzle is that Mr Wilmott met Mr Westerham yesterday and the Senator denied the mistake, stating that he did not have such an article amongst his luggage during the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. Mr Wilmott knows the matter is a trivial one, but his curiosity has been piqued and he wishes the agency to investigate. At Mr Wilmott's invitation, the Beresfords visit the US Embassy and speak to Richards, his valet, who confirms the basics of the tale told by the Ambassador. Just before the other valet called for the bag, he had started to unpack it and had glimpsed its contents. It contained boots and toilet things, and a tin of bath salts. Tommy wonders if the Ambassador's bag could have been tampered with on the voyage, and Richards recalls the incident of a young lady called Eileen O'Hara being taken ill just outside the Ambassador's cabin, and he having to fetch a doctor for her, leaving the cabin alone. When he returned with the medical man, the