The Curse Of The Ancient Emerald - Plot & Excerpts
“Anything?” I asked, slipping into the booth next to her. She shifted over to give me room. “Not yet. There doesn’t seem to be any pattern. It just looks like random numbers.” “Except for the last line,” Joe pointed out. “That’s obviously the time we need to solve it by.” I checked the last line. 11 o’. Short for eleven o’clock. Fair enough. One point to Joe. “Okay,” I said, “let’s break it down.” Joe studied the piece of paper. “There is kind of a pattern. Each pair of numbers is preceded by a word. Of 18–16. By 61–12. For 750,000–11 o’.” “Could they be referring to biblical passages?” asked Chet around a mouthful of fries. The waitress approached while Amber checked her laptop. I ordered a chocolate shake and Joe ordered a club sandwich. “I don’t think so,” Amber said eventually. “I mean, they could be. But there’s an 18–16 in the books of Proverbs, Luke, Revelation, Exodus . . . pretty much all of them.” “Probably not that,”
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