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Queen Elizabeth's Secret Agents
Cecil's Men Capture Charles Bailly
Cecil’s network is put on high alert by intelligence from a source in Catholic Europe. As a result he catches Charles Bailly, a Catholic courier carrying coded letters addressed to someone called Forty.
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