From the Office of the Mayor
Saturday, May 10
Dear Tattler,
Sorry about the fishwrapper comment.
We still don’t know what all of this number stuff on the radio means.
You will recall Miss Theriot discovered that the mysterious numbers on the radio had changed, and thinking it had something to do with coded messages, she sent us both number sequences. I asked for help in decoding them. So far no one has made any progress in decoding either sequence.
Maybe we’re missing something, so let’s try again. Here are the numbers from Miss Theriot’s notes, with the strange double zeros and pauses and all.
The first message:
1, 40, 50, 50, 4 … 0, 11, 91, 90, 91, 92, 00, 11, 40, 30, 5 … 1, 61, 20, 50, 11, 90, 5 … 0, 80, 51, 21, 6 (long pause, repeat)
The second message:
0, 12, 02, 00, 51, 31, 62, 0 … 1, 41, 5 … 1, 20, 11, 40, 40, 91, 40, 7 … 0, 80, 51, 80, 5 (long pause, repeat)
Miss Theriot thought the long pause was the end of the sequence. Maybe the other pauses are the ends of words?
Please help if you can. I’ll pay L$2,500 to the first person who can decode both of them, or half of that if someone decodes one.
—Henri