IOIEEDNSOO.
“Stuck again,” he commented. “Too many vowels to get any words that would mean anything out of that.”
However, he was not discouraged. He tried the same plan, using respectively the fourth to the tenth letter in the conglomeration. But each time he had to admit defeat.
“It gets me,” said Mr. Newton, at length. “If I could only stumble on one or two words I think I could find out the system. The rest would be easy.”
“Have you tried taking every seventh word?” asked Larry. “We boys in the country used to consider seven a lucky number.”
“We’ll try it, just for luck, then,” spoke Mr. Newton. He quickly set down every seventh word, and had this result when he had gone a little way:
WHO DELIVERY WE FURNACE UP COWS THE AUTOMOBILE.
“That’s odd,” commented Mr. Newton. “We can make a sentence of that anyhow. Listen: ‘We, the furnace who deliver up automobile cows,’ though it doesn’t make any sense.”
“Try some other way of taking the words,” went on Larry. “Maybe we’d better begin at the end, and work up.”
“Well, we’ll try your plan for a change,” agreed Mr. Newton. “Take every seventh word from the end. This is what we get: ‘Sign be dog name teapot of evidently,’ and so on. Not much to that.”