MIDNIGHT
`` Forty , '' said Captain Hardy , counting the letters . `` If they use the same cipher they did last time , that 'll make five columns of eight letters each . '' Rapidly he set down the letters in the order indicated , thus : T T E N R H A S E Y G Y U R A I L O E B Then slowly he read off the message : `` ECHO -- BAY -- REVERE -- RENDEZVOUS -- EXACTLY -- AT -- MIDNIGHT . '' With a cry of joy Captain Hardy leaped to his feet . `` We 've got another chance , '' he said . `` Sanders must be going to meet them at Revere Rendezvous -- wherever that is . ''