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#### Chapter 4: The Waiter's Tip

Previously: The message said the last chance was a meeting at the Laurel's Diner restaurant at one pm. What's going to happen next?
You were excitingly waiting for your next assignment. And two days later, it came again.
A G I L I n v e s t i g a t i o n I n c .
Spellborough, U.K.
8 May, 2009
Assignment #4
OBJECTIVE: Decipher the Message.
DESCRIPTION: The previous message seemed highly useful. On knowing the message, Mrs. Wright told that the Laurel's Diner was her family's favorite restaurant, and since, the message was derived from a piece of paper in her house's basement, she became very assured that this could only be his husband's message.
She went to the exact place at the exact time. We also sent one of our investigator covertly behind her. After a long wait of few hours, no person came their to meet. But as soon as the emotionally broken lady rose to return, the waiter approached her, and handed her a piece of paper, with weird numbers written on it. He told her that it was given to him along with her photograph, by a gentleman who gave him a large tip and instructions for its timely delivery.
We have captured that piece of paper as an evidence, and we highly suspect that to be a book cipher. Also, the riddle poem in the Mr. Wright's letter advised on 'carefully' reading the 'book'. Maybe that's what he meant.
It might take some manual labor to decrypt it because we don't have automated tool for that. But nonetheless, Use the document available in the Book Cipher section of our Cryptolab, and submit the deciphered message.
CIPHER INFO: Book Cipher.
Encl. (1)

1. Book Cipher Paper Piece.

EVIDENCE
TYPE: Book Cipher
FOUND: The Laurel's Diner, 8th Street, Starrybourne
Date: 7 May, 2009
101, 12, 31, 305, 11, 5, 96, 4, 46, 45, 3, 2, 35
Oh! Emotionally Broken! High hopes, High disappointments. Anyway...
This seems quite a short message. Maybe a deeper clue! Or something unexpected?
Let's decrypt this book cipher.
Solution
done