Chapter 1:
Into the mystery.
Joseph was late. This was unusual. Joseph, for as long as he could remember, always was punctual. Something unusual must be going on.
These were the thoughts of Mr. Sean D. McCaulen, a college professor, tutoring Joseph. Joseph was a boy of twelve, and not the tallest of them. He had brown hair, and wore glasses over his bright, intelligent green eyes. Joseph, instead of shuffling his feet and looking at the floor, ran briskly up to Mr. McCaulen.
"Sorry, the traffic was horrible, and it was hard for Monty to see in this weather."
Well, that was a plausible excuse. I'll let it slide, because he's such a great student, thought Mr. McCaulen. He said, "We can begin this lesson with a review on Einstein's theory of Relativity. So, E=MC2 …"
Joseph, or Seph, as he was known, smugly walked to the car. He had Monty, his burly butler/bodyguard/chauffer/partner take a long route home. Sitting in the back seat, he pulled out a small book. He kept it on his person since he had recieved it. It had strange characters written on it. Some were like Egyptian hieroglyphics. Others seemed to be pictures. They were arranged in an order, though Seph did not know what that was. But he planned to find that, and more, from this little book.
"Monty, take me straight to the computer. And don't let anyone follow us."
Once inside, Seph placed the book on a scanner. The computer downloaded information, stored it, and prepared to scan it for virus's, but Seph quickly programmed it to not do so.
Seph scanned each page of the book. He then went to his files and compiled them into a digital copy of the book. He then opened a program that was entitled: "Seceretsearcher_Decode_book." He clicked on "Settings," then set it to "Decode using all known languages." He then selected "Run program on file."
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Two days later, the computer chimed. It said in a brisk, businesslike voice, "Program complete. Language decoded. Run a second time to make all failures corrected." Seph, having forged a note saying he would be on an extended vacation for another two months, decided to have it fix the kinks. He had to be sure.
He mused on the source of this book. He, Joseph Fowl, had successfully robbed his cousin Artemis Fowl.
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