“What’s the first letter?”
“A.”
“What’s the second?”
“B.”
“And the third?”
“C.”
“What’s the twenty-sixth?”
“Z.”
“You know your alphabet anyway,” laughed Grant. “Now this is how the code works; a is the first letter so we call it one, b is the second so we call that two, and so on all the way through. For instance, the letter s would be number nineteen, and t would be twenty. Do you see the idea?”
“Yes, I see that,” said George. “Explain the rest.”