Chapter 17
By the end of the day, the three women had a good-sized stack of messages ready to be discreetly distributed. There were many ways in which coded messages were hidden and passed onto the appropriate people. One way was through the use of poetry. Emilia had originally thought to tackle the task of composing short love poems, cleverly containing the code words, which would reveal the hidden message. However, her first few attempts were so woeful Francoise and Veronique had nearly fallen off their rickety stools they were laughing so hard. Clearly she didn’t have the heart of a poet. In her defence, it was much harder to write decent poetry in a different language!
That particular task taken off her hands, Emilia had concentrated on compiling grocery lists. The order of th
