He resolved that the jade should know of his intelligence, and he would attack the citadel by a counterplot of a most rare and excellent device.
Be of good heart; we will set to work presently, and, if it be possible, counterplot this cunning witch.
When I heard how the enemy plotted and Dawson counter-plotted with all those skilled workmen in his detective service, it occurred to me that an enemy with imagination might counter-counterplot by getting men inside Dawson's defences.
We cannot be too thankful that we possess Dawsons to counterplot against the Germans, and that personally we are in no way responsible for the morality of their methods.
The astute Athenian saw that thecounterplot had collapsed.
