Blood for the Baron!

Nice letter QF
And wonderful annotation - entrance examination by any chance.

Baron, I have the photographs you require.
I have done one of each side opened, and again with each of the permutations.
Isn't there some sort of Red Shadow medal for dedication to the cause?
("Yes" mutters under his breath 'El Baroni' doesn't shoot you in the face.)

Anyhoo, here is the decoder... finally, after nearly 5 years.

Hopper wrote:Nice letter QF
And wonderful annotation - entrance examination by any chance.

Indeed, my agent was pointing me in the direction of either the Royal Shakespeare Company or a Prussian Studentenverbindung but in the first instance I applied way, way too early and was told to büggeröff. All of which ultimately led me to enter a lunatic asylum at precisely the right moment.

Hopper wrote:Baron, I have the photographs you require.

'HURRY, SHADOWS! DEATH AWAITS THOSE WHO ARE TOO SLOW!'.
'NO, PLEASE, MASTER! I NEARLY FINISHED! ONLY FIVE YEARS TOO … URRRRRRGH.’