Gnomes are trouble #2

Harlow finally figured out the answer and set the pointer to that number. The door opened. He walked into the second compartment. Again there was a door and a lock with numbers and a pointer. The second door also had tacked to it a piece of paper with strange looking number sentences scribbled on the paper.

“Ah”, thought Harlow, “Once again I need to figure the answer to 4 & 3 and set to pointer to that number. The pattern in these examples looks harder. Let me think. Let me think.”

2 & 4 = 14
3 & 5 = 23
1 & 3 = 7
5 & 2 = 17
4 & 3 = __

It took Harlow a little while but he finally figured out the answer and set the pointer to that number. The door opened. He rushed out of the cage and hurried down the road to Alber’s village. Harlow didn’t want any more of the gnomes’ mischief.