The Mystery of the Pirate's Treasure by Penny Warner

Author:Penny Warner [Warner, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-60684-458-8
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Published: 2013-11-11T16:00:00+00:00

G-S-R-H R-H H-L U-F-M!

When Cody finished, she traded messages with M.E., blew on the message until it was dry, then held it over a lightbulb. Both girls squealed in delight as the invisible words became visible. Cody quickly translated M.E.’s message:

R D-Z-M-G G-L Y-V Z K-R-I-Z-G-V!

Code Buster’s Key and Solution found on this page, this page.

When the activities were over, Ms. Stad let the students visit the museum store to buy souvenirs. But once again, the Code Busters hung back to talk to Chad as he cleaned up the secret-message supplies.

“Mr. Bour?” Quinn said.

“Aye, call me Chad. Oh, it’s you guys. Did you make anything out of that map or the message?”

“Well,” Quinn said, “we figured out the message. It’s that nursery rhyme, ‘Pop Goes the Weasel.’ Every fourth word is part of the rhyme. We just can’t figure out why he wrote it.”

Chad nodded. “Ah, mates, you see, back in the days of yore, pirates often sent coded messages in rhyme. There were lots of things they didn’t want anyone to know about, as you can imagine.”

“That’s what Ms. Stad said about the nursery rhyme we read in class.” Cody looked at the others.

“So there’s another meaning?” M.E. asked Chad.

“That there be,” Chad said, with a twinkle in his eye. “I’ll give you a hint, but the rest is up to you.”

The Code Busters nodded, eager to get a clue to the message.

“I’ll tell you this—the word ‘monkey’ isn’t about a monkey at all.”

“What’s it mean?” Luke leaned in, frowning.

“It means ‘cannon,’ ” Chad said simply.

“Cannon?” Quinn repeated.

“Can’t you tell us more?” M.E. pleaded.

Cody noticed the gleam in Chad’s eye suddenly disappear. His face darkened, and his deep frown returned. He was staring at something behind the kids. Thinking it might be Ms. Stad, Cody whirled around, ready with an excuse for why they were hanging back.

But in the doorway stood the man with a long gray beard and a woman with a long salt-and-pepper braid down to her waist. Both were thin, had dark, piercing eyes, and wore baggy shirts and jeans.

Cody immediately recognized them from the basilica. The sour expressions hadn’t left their faces.

“Howdy, Chad!” the man said, around the toothpick hanging out of his mouth.

Chad stomped around the table in his cowboy boots toward the pair.

“Get out of here, you slimy bilge rats, before I call the cops!”

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