The Case of the Buried Treasure by James Preller

The Case of the Buried Treasure by James Preller

Author:James Preller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends


Chapter

10

Unriddling the Riddle

Mila slipped me a note later that morning. It was in code.

Fortunately, Mila and I had read the same book on secret codes—twice. She’d used a telephone code, with phone-y numbers! To solve the code, I drew nine boxes. They looked like the top nine number buttons on a telephone.

Now came the tricky part. The number four, for example, had the letters GHI above it. To let me know which letter Mila meant, she put a special mark above the number.

The letter on the left got a – sign.

In the middle, a zero.

On the right, a + sign.

After a few minutes, I caught Mila’s eye. I rubbed my finger across my nose. No, I didn’t have an itch. It was our secret signal. It meant that I understood the message. She had written,

I solved part of the riddle.



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