"I don't know," Billy replied. "What do you say?"
"I say open it," said Archie, promptly.
"Would you?"
"There's nothing else to do. Open it, of course! It is addressed to Bread-and-Butter. Well, we're in Bread-and-Butter. Doctor Luke isn't here. If he were, he'd open it. There is something in this letter that somebody ought to know at once. I'm going to open it."
"All right," Billy agreed.
Archie opened the letter and stared and frowned and pursed his lips.
"What does it say?" said Billy.
"I can't make it out. Have a try yourself. Here—read it if you can."
Billy was confronted by a cryptogram:
Dokr com quk pops goncras im ferd