Chapter – 6
Our first find
When the
boards fell in, we saw that there were about 20-30 old bronze coins scattered
on beneath the big boards (we later found out that these were useless except
for collections). But this wasn’t the valuable thing, for beneath the coins,
lay an extremely thin sheet of some metal (which we all found later to be
gold!), on this, a lot of letters were inscribed as following– ‘YMJHMTPNSLRJYFQFDFWIQTSLMFXNSNYMNIIJSYMJWJH NUJTKRFPNSLYMJZSXJJSXJJS’
At first as
you might imagine, it looked like a different language to us, but as Jack
thought, there were not many languages in the roman script, which this code was
written on. So the gold sheet was immediately entrusted to me and Martha in
order to break the ‘code’. This one code was so easy to crack that Martha did
it in 10 minutes. I will now tell you how to decode it – You just have to move
each letter ahead 5 times, in other words, ‘a”
will become ‘F’ and ‘b’ will become ‘G’ etc … Here is the entire decoded
message provided by me – ‘the choking
metal a yard long has in it hidden the recipe of making the unseen seen’
Now this was
another riddle at which we set our brains to work at. At least, we could cancel
some of the possibilities in our mind as our house was very big and rambling
while a part of our house was very new.
After some
thinking, Jack suddenly got an idea, he said,” You now that the word ‘yard’ is
used as a measurement as well as our front yard you know. As for the ‘choking
metal’ part, it must mean something metallic on the yard which is stuck in some
way. Now the ‘hidden recipe of making the unseen seen’, we will only find out
when we find the ‘chocking metal’!”We all, as you might imagine, were very
impressed with this idea of Jack’s. We set off for the yard.
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