"Jewels all between L and M. Seek and ye shall find."
This solved the cipher, but was far from being definite information.
In a conclave, all agreed that the message was as bewildering as the cipher itself.
Mr. Chapin could give no hint as to what was meant. Neither Iris nor Lucille Darrel could imagine what L and M stood for.
"Seems like a filing cabinet or card catalogue," suggested Stone, but Iris said her aunt had not owned such a thing.
"Well, we'll find them," Stone promised, "having this information, we'll somehow puzzle out the rest."
"Look in the dictionary or encyclopedia," put in Fibsy, who was scowling darkly in his efforts to think it out.
"You can't hide a lot of jewels in a book!" exclaimed Lucille.
"No; but there might be a paper there telling more."
However, no amount of search brought forth anything of the sort, and they all thought again.