Spy School Revolution by Stuart Gibbs
Author:Stuart Gibbs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2020-10-06T00:00:00+00:00
14 CHEMISTRY
âThe Agencyâ
Vienna, Virginia
April 17
0745 hours
Catherine Hale was waiting for us on the ground below the tree house. She had sent Mike up to see if I was there, while she stood guard down below, keeping an eye out for the Croatoan. It had never occurred to her that our burrow might have been compromised.
As I had hoped, she and Mike had managed to escape their pursuers on horseback, although Mike hadnât enjoyed it one bit. âI donât get why people like riding horses at all,â he muttered to me as we climbed down from the tree house. âIt feels like someone spent an hour kicking me in the crotch.â
I noticed he was walking bowlegged due to his sore nether regions.
Jawa and Chip were excited to see Catherine; both had major schoolboy crushes on her. Suddenly, neither was in any hurry to leave. Instead, they stayed to hear what my revelation was, despite the fact that Chip had Zoeâs unconscious body slung over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.
âWe need to read between the lines,â I explained, holding up Washingtonâs message so that everyone could see it.
âYou mean, look for a hidden meaning?â Mike asked. âBecause the message seems awfully straightforward to me. The Croatoan has been captured and destroyed.â
I shook my head. âThereâs no hidden meaning. We need to literally read between the lines. I think thereâs another message here. An invisible one.â
âOf course!â Jawa exclaimed, grasping what I meant. âItâs like what we learned in History of Spying!â
âYou learned something in History of Spying?â Chip asked blankly. âI fell asleep in every class.â
âMe too,â Mike agreed. âProfessor Weeks is a bore.â
Jawa gave Catherine a sly Arenât these other guys idiots? look and then tried to impress her with his knowledge of espionage. âWashington and his spies used invisible ink on a regular basis throughout the Revolutionary War and the early days of the country. Although they referred to it as âsympathetic ink.âââ
âBut how do you know thereâs anything invisible written on this message?â Chip asked me. âSince itâs, well⦠invisible.â
âI canât guarantee thereâs anything,â I admitted, âbut it would explain why Washington went to so much trouble to hide this message. Thereâs not too much to the part you can see. So maybe thereâs something important in the part that we canât see.â
âVery clever, Benjamin,â Catherine said in an admiring tone that made Chip and Jawa give me dirty looks. âIf there truly is an invisible message here, then this document would be quite a clever bit of deception. If the Croatoan intercepted it, theyâd mistakenly believe that Washingtonâs spies thought they had been vanquished. Which would then trick the Croatoan into dropping their guard.â
âAnd it would also explain why Washington used such a sucky code,â Mike added. âBecause heâd want the Croatoan to be able to crack it.â
âRight,â I agreed.
Chip snatched the message from my hands. âSo how do we find out if thereâs anything invisible here?â He squinted at it, as if that would somehow make the words appear.
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