Penny was certain she had deciphered the third word of the code and that it was the same as she had written unintentionally. Quickly she wrote out the entire jumbled message, and under it her translation.
YL GFZKY GLULFFLS
NO TRAIN TOMORROW
“That’s it!” she chortled, bounding up and down in bed.
And then her elation fled away. A puzzled expression settled over her face.
“I have it, only I haven’t,” she muttered. “What can the message mean? There are no trains at Pine Top—not even a railroad station. This leaves everything in a worse puzzle than before!”
CHAPTER
17
STRANGE SOUNDS
Penny felt reasonably certain that she had deciphered the code correctly, but although she studied over the message for nearly an hour, she could make nothing of it.
“No train tomorrow,” she repeated to herself. “How silly! Perhaps it means, no plane tomorrow.”
She worked out the code a second time, checking her letters carefully. There was no mistake.