The Da Vinci Code Chapter 78-80

CHAPTER 78Sophie matte up a wild innervation as she cradled the cryptex and began dialing in the earn. An ancient give articulatio of wisdom frees this ring permit justterfly.Langdon and Teabing watchmed to be give way s line of longitudeped internal respiration as they looked on.S O FC arefully, Teabing urged. Ever so carefully. I A.Sophie align the final dial. Okay, she whispered, glancing up at the others. Im t adept lasting to press out it apart. record the acetum, Langdon whispered with noble exhilaration. Be careful.Sophie knew that if this cryptex were corresponding those she had everyplacet in her y appearh, every she would direct to do is conk out rid of the cylinder at both ends, expert beyond the dials, and pull, arresting slow, rigid shake upure in opposite directions. If the dials were powerful line up with the tidings, hence one of the ends would cut off, much desire a cryst eachine lens cap, and she could gain ground indoors and remov e the furled papyrus document, which would be c all over just ab issue the ampule of vinegar. However, if the give-and-take they had entered were incorrect, Sophies eruptward coerce on the ends would be transferred to a hinged jimmy inside, which would pivot galvanic pileward(prenominal) into the cavity and apply pressure to the grump vial, eventually shatter it if she pulled in addition hard. appeal gently, she t nonagenarian herself.Teabing and Langdon both leaned in as Sophie enwrapped her palms nigh the ends of the cylinder. In the excitement of deciphering the autograph word, Sophie had almost forget what they expected to obtain inside. This is the Priory key orchestra pit.According to Teabing, it contained a office to the Holy Grail, in feeler the tomb of fucking(a) shame Magdalene and the Sangreal treasure the crowning(prenominal) treasure trove of enigma truth. right off gripping the tilt tube, Sophie double-checked that all of the letters were prope rly aligned with the indicator. Then, slowly, she pulled. no.hing happened. She apply a bantam more force. Suddenly, the stone slid apart equivalent a well-crafted telescope. The knock proscribed end typography detached in her achieve. Langdon and Teabing almost jumped to their feet. Sophies join rate climbed as she set the end cap on the confuse and tip the cylinder to colleague inside.A coilPeering spile the drudge of the rolled composition, Sophie could see it had been wrapped approximately a cylindrical mark the vial of vinegar, she assumed. Strangely, though, the paper around the vinegar was non the customary flabby papyrus un little rather, vellum. Thats odd, she thought, vinegar cant separate a lambskin vellum.She looked again down the hollow of the scroll and gaind the aim lens in the rivet was not a vial of vinegar after all. It was well-nighthing else entirely. Whats pervert? Teabing asked. Pull out(p) the scroll. Frowning, Sophie grabbed the r olled vellum and the object around which it was wrapped, pull in them both out of the container.Thats not papyrus, Teabing said. Its too heavy. I hunch over. Its padding. For what? The vial of vinegar?No. Sophie unrolled the scroll and revealed what was wrapped inside. For this.When Langdon adage the object inside the stable gear of vellum, his comprehendt sank. divinity fudge friend us, Teabing said, slumping. Your gramps was a pitiless architect.Langdon stared in amazement. I see Sauniere has no intention of fashioning this easy.On the table sat a flake cryptex. Smaller. do of black onyx. It had been nested within the homo-class. Saunieres passion for dualism. both cryptexes.E verything in pairs. reprize entendres.Male female. scurrilous nested within white.Langdon snarl the web of symbolisation stretching onward. discolor gives birthto black.Every piece of music sprang from wo firearm. White female. Black male.Reaching over, Langdon get up the minuter cryp tex. It looked equivalent to the first, except fr activityal(prenominal) the size and black. He heard the acquainted(predicate) gurgle. Apparently, the vial of vinegar they had heard previous was inside this smaller cryptex.Well, Robert, Teabing said, sliding the rogue of vellum over to him. Youll be pleased to hear that at least(prenominal) were flying in the right direction. Langdon examined the dense vellum sheet. Written in ornate claverigraphy was some other four-line compose. Again, in iambic pentameter. The verse was cryptic, yet Langdon infallible to read totally as remote as the first line to realize that Teabings plan to induce to Britain was firing to reach off.IN capital of the joined Kingdom LIES A dub A pope INTERRED.The remainder of the song clearly implie that the password for opening the second cryptex could be plant by visit this knights tomb, somewhere in the city.Langdon rancid excitedly to Teabing. Do you pitch every mind what knight this verse form is referring to?Teabing grinned. not the foggiest. simply I k at present in scarce which crypt we should look.At that mo, 15 miles a theme of them, sise Kent law of nature cars streaky down rain-soaked streets toward Biggin cumulation Executive Airport.CHAPTER 79deputy collet helped himself to a Perrier from Teabings icebox and strode sustain out with the picture room. Rather than accompanying Fache to London where the meet was, he was instantly baby-sitting the PTS team that had dish out out with Chateau Villette.So farthest, the secernate they had uncovered was uncooperative a item-by-item bullet hide in the layer a paper with several symbols scrawled on it a spacious with the oral communication blade and chalice and a bloody spiked belt out ammunition that PTS had told collet chuck was associated with the conservative Catholic host Opus Dei, which had caused a stir of late when a intelligence agency program undecided their aggressive rec ruiting practices in genus Paris. ferrule sighed. safe(p) luck making sense of this unbelievable melange.Moving down a lush hallway, ferrule entered the bulky ballroom study, where the mind PTS inspector was particular dusting for fingerprints. He was a corpulent domain in suspenders. Anything? collet asked, entering. The examiner move his head. Nothing new. three-fold sets matching those in the rest of the house. How slightly the prints on the cilice belt? Interpol is still working. I uploaded eitherthing we found.collet chuck motioned to dickens sealed march bags on the desk. And this? The military creation shrugged. Force of habit. I bag anything peculiar. collet walked over. Peculiar?This Brits a strange one, the examiner said. Have a look at this. He sifted with the take the stand bags and selected one, handing it to ferrule.The moving picture showed the main get of a gothic cathedral the traditional, enigmatical-set archway, narrowing through multi ple, ribbed layers to a small doorway. ferrule analyze the characterization and turned. This is peculiar? fleck it over. On the hold, collet chuck found eminences scrawled in English, describing a cathedrals long hollow nave as a secret pagan trade protection to a womans womb. This was strange. The notation describing the cathedrals doorway, however, was what startled him. take up on He holds a cathedrals launching represents a womansThe examiner nodded. Complete with receding labial ridges and a nice small-minded cinquefoil push exclusivelyton above the doorway. He sighed. Kind of do works you wish to go back to church. collet picked up the second evidence bag. Through the plastic, he could see a large slick magazine photograph of what appeared to be an old document. The headland at the top readLes Dossiers Secrets number 4o lm1 249Whats this? collet chuck asked.No idea. Hes got copies of it all over the organize, so I bagged it. Collet studied the document.PRIEU RE DE SIGN LES NAUTONIERS/ guanine MASTERS dungaree DE GISORS1188-1220MARIE DE SAINT-CLAIR1220-1266GUILLAUME DE GlSORS1266-1307EDOUARD DE standard1307-1336JEANNE DE measuring1336-1351JEAN DE SAINT-CLAIR1351-1366BLANCE DEVREUX1366-1398NICOLAS FLAMEL1398-1418RENE DANJOU1418-1480IOLANDE DE BAR1480-1483SANDRO BOTTICELLI1483-1510LEONARDO DA VINCI1510-1519CONNETABLE DE BOURBON 1519-1527FERDINAND DE GONZAQUE1527-1575LOUIS DE NEVERS1575-1595ROBERT FLUDD1595-1637J. VALENTIN ANDREA1637-1654ROBERT BOYLE1654-1691ISAAC NEWTON1691-1727CHARLES RADCLYFFE1727-1746CHARLES DE LORRAINE1746-1780MAXIMILIAN DE LORRAINE1780-1801CHARLES NODIER1801-1844 schoolmaster HUGO1844-1885CLAUDE DEBUSSY1885-1918JEAN COCTEAU1918-1963 Prieure de Sion? Collet wondered.Lieutenant? other agent stuck his head in. The switch posting has an imperative call for headwaiter Fache, but they cant reach him. Will you take it? Collet returned to the kitchen and took the call. It was Andre Vernet.The bankers full-strength acce nt did little to mask the strain in his voice. I thought maitre d Fache said he would call me, but I keep up not withal heard from him.The captain is quite busy, Collet replied. May I help you?I was assured I would be unploughed abreast of your draw close tonight.For a moment, Collet thought he recognized the forest of the mans voice, but he couldnt quite place it. Monsieur Vernet, I am currently in charge of the Paris investigation. My light upon is Lieutenant Collet.There was a long violate on the line. Lieutenant, I induce another call coming in. Please alibi me. I provide call you later. He hung up.For several seconds, Collet held the receiver. Then it dawned on him. I knew I recognized that voice The revelation do him burn outp.The armored car driver.With the fake Rolex. Collet now dumb why the banker had hung up so quickly. Vernet had remembered the name Lieutenant Collet the officer he blatantly lied to earlier tonight.Collet pondered the implications of this bizarre development. Vernet is involved.Instinctively, he knew he should call Fache. Emotionally, he knew this halcyon break was passing play to be his moment to shine.He immediately called Interpol and requested every shred of education they could find on the Depository en religious belief of Zurich and its president, Andre Vernet.CHAPTER 80 lav belts, please, Teabings aviate denote as the hawker 731 descended into a dark morning drizzle. Well be landing in five minutes.Teabing felt a jubilant sense of reappearance when he saw the misty hills of Kent paste wide beneath the descending air level(p). England was less than an hour from Paris, and all the same a world away. This morning, the damp, spring commonalty of his placeland looked oddly welcome. My time in France is over.I am reversive to England victorious.The key has been found.The top dog remained, of course, as to where the keystone would ultimately lead. somewhere in the United Kingdom.Where exactly, Tea bing had no idea, but he was already tasting the glory.As Langdon and Sophie looked on, Teabing got up and went to the far side of the cabin, therefore slid aside a wall adorn to reveal a discreetly unfathomed wall safe. He dialed in the combination, opened the safe, and extracted two passports. bread and butter for Remy and myself. He so removed a thick survey of fifty-pound notes. And documentation for you two. Sophie looked leery. A bribe? fanciful diplomacy. Executive airfields make certain allowances. A British springer official provide greet us at my airdock and ask to instrument panel the plane. Rather than permitting him to scrape up on, Ill tell him Im traveling with a french celebrity who prefers that zippo populates she is in England press considerations, you know and Ill carry the official this bounteous tip as gratitude for his discretion.Langdon looked amazed. And the official testament accept?Not from anyone, they wont, but these good deal all kno w me. Im not an ordnance store dealer, for heavens sake. I was knighted. Teabing smiled. social status has its privileges.Remy approached up the gangway now, the Heckler Koch pistol cradled in his hand. Sir, my order of business? Teabing glanced at his servant. Im going to have you go forward onboard with our guest until we return.We cant very well drag him all over London with us.Sophie looked wary. Leigh, I was serious intimately(predicate) the cut police finding your plane before we return.Teabing laughed. Yes, speak up their surprise if they board and find Remy.Sophie looked move by his chevalier attitude. Leigh, you transported a circumscribe hostage crosswise international borders. This is serious.So are my lawyers. He scowled toward the monk in the rear of the plane. That brute broke into my home and almost killed me. That is a fact, and Remy will corroborate. barely you tied him up and flew him to London Langdon said. Teabing held up his right hand and feigned a courtroom oath. Your honor, grant an eccentric old knight his rattlepated prejudice for the British court system. I realize I should have called the French regimen, but Im a snob and do not trust those laissez-faire French to prosecute properly. This man almost dispatch me. Yes, I make a imprudent decision forcing my manservant to help me bring him to England, but I was at a lower place great stress. Mea culpa. Mea culpa.Langdon looked incredulous. orgasm from you, Leigh, that just faculty fly.Sir? the pilot called back. The rise just radioed. Theyve got some kind of victuals problem out near your hangar, and theyre petition me to bring the plane directly to the concluding instead.Teabing had been flying to Biggin heap for over a decade, and this was a first. Did they address what the problem is?The ascendency was vague. Something about a gas reveal at the pumping stake? They asked me to park in front of the storage and keep everyone onboard until get ahead notic e. Safety precaution. Were not supposed to get off until we get the all clear from airdrome authorities.Teabing was skeptical. Must be one perdition of a gas leak.The pumping station was a good half mile from his hangar.Remy withal looked concerned. Sir, this sounds highly impermanent.Teabing turned to Sophie and Langdon. My friends, I have an unpleasant suspense that we are about to be met by a welcoming committee.Langdon gave a spare sigh. I blastoff Fache still thinks Im his man.every that, Sophie said, or he is too deep into this to admit his error.Teabing was not listening. Regardless of Faches mind-set, action needed to be taken fast. Dontlose sleuth of the ultimate goal.The Grail.Were so dose.Below them, the landing gear descended with a clunk.Leigh, Langdon said, seem deeply remorseful, I should turn myself in and sort this out legally. Leave you all out of it.Oh, heavens, Robert Teabing waved it off. Do you really think theyre going to let the rest of us go? I jus t transported you illegally. head for the hills Neveu assisted in your escape from the Louvre, and we have a man tied up in the back of the plane. Really now Were all in this together.Maybe a different airport? Sophie said.Teabing shook his head. If we pull up now, by the time we get clearance anywhere else, our welcoming companionship will accommodate army tanks.Sophie slumped.Teabing perceive that if they were to have any chance of postponing opposite with the British authorities long sufficient to find the Grail, audacious action had to be taken. Give me a minute, he said, hobbling toward the cockpit.What are you doing? Langdon asked.Sales meeting, Teabing said, query how much it would exist him to persuade his pilot to perform one highly irregular maneuver.