The Genius Files #3: You Only Die Twice by Dan Gutman

Author:Dan Gutman
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins

“Don’t Be Cruel” came out of the speakers. For the rest of the night, Coke and Pep would not be able to get those words out of their heads.

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Go to Google Maps (http://maps.google.com).

Click Get Directions.

In the A box, type Dillon SC.

In the B box, type Columbia SC.

Click Get Directions.

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Chapter 21

A GIFT

When Pep woke up the next morning, the first thing she did was to go outside and look for signs of anything suspicious. Sure enough, taped to the exterior of the RV right near her window was an envelope. Pep ripped it open and found a slip of paper with this written on it …

OGO THT LEV INI RGO OM

“I knew it!” she said as she ran inside to show it to her brother.

“What does it mean?” Coke asked.

“I don’t know,” Pep replied, “yet.”

The family got a late start that day because Mrs. McDonald did a load of laundry in the campground washing machine and Coke did a dump to clear out the RV holding tank. Finally, around ten o’clock, they left South of the Border and were on I-95 South again. A billboard said PEDRO SAD THAT YOU ARE LEAVING.

Dr. McDonald hoped to make it halfway across South Carolina, to Columbia, before lunchtime. It would be a little more than a hundred miles.

As usual, Mrs. McDonald had her head in a guidebook.

“We could stop off at the Rice Museum in Georgetown,” she mused out loud.

“Please tell me the Rice Museum is named after somebody named Rice,” said Coke. “Jerry Rice, the football player? Condoleezza Rice?”

“Actually, no, it’s a museum about rice,” said Mrs. McDonald.

“No!” the kids shouted.

“They can’t have a museum about rice!” Coke whined. “It can’t be true!”

It was true, but much to the relief of Coke and Pep, their mother did not insist on visiting the Rice Museum.

Pep took out her notebook and examined the cipher that had been taped to the RV in the middle of the night: OGO THT LEV INI RGO OM. Coke opened his backpack and read over the instructions that came with the fireworks he had bought.

When I-95 intersected with Route 20 near Florence, South Carolina, Dr. McDonald pulled off the road and into a service station. It was one of those big ones, with a dozen pumps and a convenience store.

“We need to gas up,” he announced.

“Why didn’t you gas up when we were at South of the Border?” Mrs. McDonald asked him. “There was a gas station there.”

“I forgot, okay?” he replied. “I’m not perfect.”

“Are you and Mom fighting?” Pep asked from the backseat.

“No!”

Dr. McDonald inserted his credit card into the slot on the pump to pay for the gas.

CARD DENIED flashed on the little screen as the credit card popped back out.

“What?!”

“Is there a problem, dear?” asked Mrs. McDonald.

“The stupid machine won’t take my credit card,” he replied.

He tried again, and again the card was denied. Mrs. McDonald hopped out and went to see if she could help. An attendant saw that they were having trouble and came over.

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