So I hadn’t deciphered his key at all, or maybe he had just set up a false key to discourage the code translator. But I reflected, he had to include the key as I thought his clues were. There was no letter or note given to me besides the notebook itself. It took some rumination, but I told myself, since he had revealed a decipher method, maybe he intentionally had the first line decode as gibberish so that it would discourage the person who attempted to translate it and immediately fail. It might just be a blind to discourage continued decoding using the given method. If one assumed it was purposely given and purposely did not work on the first line, any other attempt using something else would surely fail. So I tried the second line and now I decoded the following: “Congratulations Uncle, if you can read this” I had indeed figured out his code. I proceeded to finish the entire notebook. It follows: “you obviously learned a thing or two from your association from Mr. Holmes. You really have not given yourself enough credit or intelligence in your writing about Holmes’s cases. I have written this reminiscence to further apologize and explain myself. My heart is heavy that I caused the death of Aunt Christy, an innocent bystander that I foolishly involved in affairs concerning that devil Moriarty. I will have an accounting with him if at all possible, but first I must ensure his devise is destroyed. It is so horrendous I cannot allow it to fall into anyone’s hands. I don’t know if I can get Moriarty and the weapon in one stroke. So I have had to give you the mission of eliminating the Professor if I cannot. I have given Hans the necessary maps and papers to get you into the Professor. If I can eliminate the device and his expert team without deadly consequences to myself, I will help you track him down and finish him. But I do not think that will be possible, as he is not traveling with us and the devise, but taking a train later. I must rely on you to finish the Professor. I am writing this while I am waiting for the Zeppelin to arrive and transport our weapon to a fishing boat manufacturing factory that is being converted to a weapon’s development lab. It is located on the remote peninsula of Eastern Russia. The Kaiser threw a royal fit and has banished Moriarty and his devise to a remote location, until he can create a safe and reliable engine of destruction that can be used on an enemy battleship instead of his own troops. He knows the weapon can be devastating from the explosion of the first devise. He just wants to have it developed far enough away that it can be kept secret and distant enough incase it unpredictably blows again. The Professor had ranted and wailed to his expert team. He has had many conferences with them about what had happened. He believes he knows, but will not specifically explain to his scientists what he believes is a totally new phenomena. He in fact yelled at them they were too stupid to understand even if he explained it to them. This of course did not enamor the Professor to the scientists who were some of the brightest Prussian minds that the Kaiser could press into his service. He has sworn to them his fundamental management of the experiment was proper. He had just not known the extent of the result. Instead of creating a hardened projectile it had itself become a super explosive that could destroy a battleship on its own. He would not just rip out the bottom hull, but decimate the entire ship. Now that he had seen the result of his device, he swore he could contain the experiment with slight necessary modifications and would not allow it to be mishandled to cause any more unexpected explosions and deadly cost. I was attending these meeting as his personal bodyguard. He again treated me as such and did not care if I overheard his conversations with his experts. He rightly thought I could not follow their conversations technically at all, but I did understand the gist of the dangerousness of the device if not its workings, I knew its potential and its necessary elimination. So I will be accompanying the device at the Professor’s insistence. He is unwittingly guarding his hen house with the fox. The blast of his first device has obliterated all traces of the subversive equipment that was brought in. The Professor was unaware of any attempt at sabotage. So, he is wary of Prussian secret police, but does not suspect me or my agents, as far as I know. He hasn’t pressed me on the status of missing Fritz. He is too busy with getting his project moved and set up; he has left the rest of his Agencies schemes to his lower associates. Let me tell you my tale of disciplined and committed working for British Intelligence as an expatriate patriot to disciplined and committed and working for British Intelligence as a Christian. I had actually joined the M Agency before I had my spiritual epiphany; I was working my way into the good graces of the Professor. It is by the Grace of God that He revealed Himself to me, even in my unbelief and my clandestine work posing as a hardened criminal. I am unburdening myself to you Uncle, because I feel I owe you, not an excuse, but an explanation. I know Aunt Christy’s fondest wish is that you join her in Heaven, where I believe she awaits us both. Also, I have no real friends in my line of work who I would or could reveal who and what I am. I know I will probably fill every page of this small notebook with my account, but I don’t think I will have a chance to do this in person. I have a premonition; I think I will be meeting my Lord Jesus before I see you again. In fact, I have little option but to attempt a plan that surly will cause my demise. But my duty is to finish my task, even at the cost of my life. So I probably won’t even talk with you in person again. Maybe my tale will show you why I believe even though before I was unconcerned about eternity.