Cologne, Germany           Townsend realized he couldn’t save Tyning, but he had the German papers.           He thought they might be the rumored invasion plan of Switzerland and he wanted to hand them off to British officials as quickly as possible.           He slipped away while managing to look like he was helping to extinguish the blazing truck. *           At first, it appeared the plans for Operation CAPQuellwasser had blown off the desk when the windows imploded. But after Feuermacht and Hess searched the entire office, they knew the documents had been stolen. Tyning was still lying on the floor and the Germans searched him, making sure his continued unconsciousness wasn’t a ruse to steal the plan.           Tyning didn’t have the papers on him.           Feuermacht threw a chair against the wall. He was incensed that he had not taken the dossier with him when they rushed out of the office. He suspected his invasion strategy would eventually surface in the British War Office, although the Brits would not be able to decipher the encryption without an Enigma machine.           The strategist's mind raced. He could easily reproduce the strategy for the German high command and they could act upon it immediately. But he still had to get the original plan back from the British before they could decode it. Feuermacht kicked the unconscious soldier. That's when he noticed a heavy gold band bearing an aristocratic crest, circling the man's finger. He crouched down to take a closer look.           “What is it?” asked Hess. “What have you found?”           “A British coat of arms.” Feuermacht answered as he looked past the soldier’s broken nose and blackened eyes and finally recognized the face of Lord William Tyning.           As the Astor’s guest, Feuermacht had attended many of their parties and had occasionally seen Tyning at them. He had even overheard Tyning talking about his sister, Lady Victoria Méliès.           Feuermacht's deductive reasoning kicked into high gear. He had recently met Major George Thorpington, who had bragged about his position in the British War Office and his responsibility for cataloguing classified documents. Feuermacht believed the Major had mentioned being an old family friend of Tyning.           The pieces fit together, giving Feuermacht a likely solution to his problem.           He informed Hess about the link between The War Office, Thorpington, Lady Méliès and their prisoner, William Tyning. He explained how the Nazis could use Tyning as bait. The operative word was immediacy. If the British and the Swiss had time to digest the simplicity of the invasion plan, the strategy would be useless. They needed to retrieve the dossier before it could be catalogued and studied.           Hess ordered Feuermacht back to England. The faster Feuermacht could convince the good Major he could “save” William Tyning, the better the Germans’ chances were for saving Operation CAPQuellwasser. ***