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“We need to find a na,” Sam said

“Napoleon’s Gold,” Re

“Works for me”

Selma said, “Okay, Napoleon’s Gold I suspect he meant it to work like this: Find one bottle, decode it with the book, then follow the riddle to another bottle—”

Saht on: “Then use that label’s code with the book and the first bottle to decode the next line—”

“And its riddle, which leads to yet another bottleand so forth The good news is—and this is another guess—I don’t think there’s any sequence to the code—in other words, Laurent designed it so any bottle would lead to another riddle”

Reht, why did he hide three bottles together at d’If?”

“No idea We ht find out down the road”

“We’re ignoring the elephant in the room,” Sam said “We know for sure one of the bottles is lost—the shard from the Poco the last riddle—the one that points us to Napoleon’s Gold”

“I was thinking the sauess on’t know until we reach the end”

“Selma, what are the chances the bottle Kholkov recovered in Ruood?” Sam asked

“Slim Unless they have a codebook, that is And based on how he’s been on your heels every step of the way, I’d say they’re lost”

“Here’s elephant nuet our hands on the Rum Cay bottle”

“Which means,” Sam said, “a trip into the lion’s den”

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