The Princess and the Pauper (Arabella and Romeo) novel Chapter 1346

"Hmph, that clueless woman, all her scheming amounts to nothing. She has no idea that Arlen's playing for our team!"

Eunice watched their retreating figures with a curious glint in her eye. Although she didn't have any concrete evidence to reveal who the mole really was, the sight of the trio ascending the stairs together gave her a strong hunch that the traitor wasn't acting alone.

"Arlen, what did that woman say to you earlier?" Calvin whispered urgently as they reached the top of the staircase. "How much does she really know?"

"She blabbed a whole lot of nonsense at first, nothing of value. But then she handed me this USB drive, claimed all the secrets were on it."

Arlen pushed open the door to the study and booted up the computer, plugging in the USB drive.

There it was, an encrypted folder!

Arlen typed in '123456', but the password was incorrect. He tried again, same result.

"Is that woman tricking me?" Arlen's face darkened with suspicion, wondering what kind of game she was playing.

"Earlier, she asked if you remembered, and you said you did. You bragged about not being senile, so why can't you remember now?"

Bess was suddenly skeptical. Could it be that Arlen was deliberately entering the wrong password, planning to keep the contents to himself once they left?

Arlen frowned, irritated. "Bess, what are you insinuating? Are you suggesting that I'm faking the password error so you can't see what's inside?"

"You said that the secret Eunice gave you was simple, but you got it wrong. So, what's the real password?"

"123456."