The Haunted Lighthouse by Penny Warner

Author:Penny Warner [Warner, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-60684-362-8
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Published: 2012-11-12T16:00:00+00:00

Code Buster’s Solution found on this page.

The door jerked open.

Geoff stepped out. “I thought you kids were gone.”

“I … I just saw this note on the door—” Cody started to say.

Geoff snatched the note off the back of the door. “Oh, that’s nothing. Bunch of jibberish left by some kid. Go on, now.”

Cody nodded and followed the others down the hill to the gift shop, puzzled over the message she’d found. It had to be a message meant for the Code Busters, but the guard had snatched it out of her hands before she could read the rest.

She entered the store, hoping to find some souvenirs for her family. She especially wanted to buy one of the commemorative diamonds.

M.E. came up behind Cody as she looked at some key chains that featured pictures of the Rock.

“So do you think those coordinates actually point to the Campanile tower?” she whispered.

“Yeah,” Quinn said, pulling up next to Cody. He wore a striped prison cap. Apparently, he’d overheard M.E. in spite of her whispering. “That plus the ABC code message have to be the clues. The Morse code was the only set of marks that wasn’t made by a permanent marker. I doubt the prisoners had markers back in those days. If anyone wanted to leave a permanent message, he’d have to carve it. Besides, those numbers and marks didn’t fit with the other graffiti.”

“But why would someone randomly carve out Morse code and the coordinates for the UC tower?” Luke asked, standing behind them holding an ESCAPED FROM ALCATRAZ PSYCH WARD T-shirt.

“That’s just it,” Quinn answered. “It wasn’t random. I think it was one of Diamond Dave’s gang members. He probably came to visit Dave in prison, but he couldn’t just tell him where the diamonds were hidden in case someone overheard him. So he talked about the lighthouse or brought him a picture of it—and that was a clue. Remember how Dave kept drawing lighthouses? He seemed obsessed with them. He probably knew there was a message waiting for him there when he finally got out of prison.”

“We’ll just have to go to the Campanile bell tower to find out,” M.E. said, shrugging. “Maybe the diamonds are hidden there.”

“Yeah,” Quinn agreed. “We have to check. You never know. And they might still be there after all these years.”

The kids spent the rest of their free time deciding what to buy. Quinn bought himself a tin cup that was painted with black and white stripes and had the word ALCATRAZ stenciled on the side. Luke got the T-shirt he was holding, and another one in a larger size for his grand-mère. Naturally M.E. picked out some striped Alcatraz knee-high socks to wear to school, claiming, “They go with everything!” Cody finally found a duplicate prison-cell key for her dad, an Alcatraz guard badge for her mother, an Alcatraz bookmark for her sister, Tana, and a fake diamond about the size of a walnut for herself.

On the way out of the shop, Cody spotted her dad.

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