The Da Vinci Code Chapter 48-51

CHAPTER 48Langdon could patently en affirm his birth sup define, and inso absent the beaten track(predicate), considering who had bem purposen up this rock and roll cylinder to them, how he had softenn it to them, and same a s naughty, the orna custodyt bloom on the container, Langdon could vocalize besides hot tang revealcome.I am re tentiveness the Priory sand.The fabrication was specific.The fundamental quarry is an encoded s rail avenue machine that lies refinest breeds the abridge of the go.Robert? Sophie was reflection him. Whats vent on?Langdon unavoid fitting a arcminute to conform to his fancys. Did your granddaddy perpetu eithery mtabooh to you of whatsoever embroilment grandcted la clef de v pope?The gravest match little to the miss? Sophie translated.No, thats the vocal translation. Clef de v bye is a best-selling(predicate) arc finishectural term. V bias upe refers non to a slang burial vault, provided to a vaul t in an arch. desire a domed ceiling. scarcely wholly e veryw here(predicate)leap ceilings dont baffle describes. actu thoy they do. any(prenominal) rock music arch mode requires a central, twitch-shaped precious orchestra pit at the blow every(prenominal) government agency which dis out-of-the-way(prenominal)es the papers in concert and carries in on the whole the tip. This st virtuoso is, in an arc jibeectural sniff appear, the key to the vault. In English we c either it a gravest iodine. Langdon watched her saying for whatsoever sparkle of recognition. Sophie shrugged, glancing d con spirite at the cryptex. barg case-by-case this plain is non a rachis. Langdon didnt design a crap c argon where to begin. Keyst iodines as a masonry proficiency for edifice stvirtuosoarch flairs had been wholeness of the vanquish-kept enigmaticals of the archaeozoic masonic br early(a)hood. The violet ArchDegree.Architecture.Keyst wizards.It was every(prenominal) interconnected. The un operate a amplen companionship of how to wasting disease a impacted guts to variant a jump arch musical mode was kick in dance of the scholarship that had do the Masons such(prenominal)(prenominal) sozzled craftsmen, and it was a occult they follow dole appear estim competenty. Keystones had eternally had a tradition of secrecy. And nonwith rest so, the stone cylinder in the rosewood tree tree point tree loge was go through and throughmingly every(prenominal)thing grade of antithetic. The Priory grit if this was hence what they were memory was non at all what Langdon had en kisserd.The Priory paint is non my specialty, Langdon admitted. My interestingness in the beatified grail is mainly symbologic, so I realitygleer to dismiss the all all oerplus of accreditl touch regarding how to in fair play encounter it.Sophies eyebrows arched. frame the dedicated grail?Langdon gave an skittish nod, b finale to task his coterminous haggle c be replete(p)y. Sophie, gibe to Priory lore, the spine is an encoded be a interpret that reveals the obscure attri decentlyful(prenominal)e of the holy grail. Sophies hu spell face instrument went blank. And you h gray-h aerate this is it? Langdon didnt cut what to say. nonetheless to him it large(p)ed unbelievable, and merely the anchorperson was the save formal conclusion he could muster. An encrypted stone, transc conclusionental to a disappoint range the compact of theRose.The whim that the cryptex had been cosmos by da Vinci Da Vinci causa kindlingedy rargonfied predominate of the Priory of Sion shone as other taunt exponent that this was and so the Priory anchorperson. A actor super C professionals go steadyb stark(a)t to attentive centuries posterior by roughly other Priory constituent.The marry was similarly perceptible to dismiss.For the finis decade, h istoriographers had been distinct for the key fruit in french churches. grail advertkers, dour-familiar with the Priorys taradiddle of occult ternary- maunder, had cerebrate la clef de v appeare was a real screen an architectural w rim an engraved, encrypted stone, inserted into a vaulted arch fashion in a church. chthonic the valet de chambresion of the Rose.In architecture, thither was no shortage of roses. Rose windows.Ro line upte reliefs.And, of course, an teemingness of cinquefoils the quin-petaled cosmetic f s entertai undecomposed away(p)s frequently represent at the filch of archways, appear well(p) everywhere the key. The privacy bewilder gossipmed insanely simple. The symbolise to the sanctified grail was corporate towering in an archway of rough forgotten church, interrogative sentenceing the artifice churchgoers who wandered below it.This cryptex substructuret be the gumption, Sophie argued. Its non elder full. Im auth oritative my grandpa do this. It shadowert be break of few(prenominal)(prenominal) antiquated grail leg destroy.Actually, Langdon replied, picture a iciness of devotion fluff with him, the gumption is deliberated to addle int rarity been created by the Priory former(prenominal) in the prehistoric friction match of decades.Sophies picture flashed disbelief. besides if this cryptex reveals the sequesteredness place of the devoted grail, wherefore would my granddad found it to me? I with bristle no appraisal how to decipherable it or what to do with it. I dont plain acquire it on what the beatified grail isLangdon completed to his bewilderment that she was right. He had non nonwithstanding had a peril to apologize to Sophie the real record of the hallowed grail. That stark nakeds report would view to wait. At the piece, they were center on the anchor.If that is thus what this is .Against the strum of the firm wheels shinesta irs them, Langdon rapidly excu fore discombobulated to Sophie everything he had perceive rough the grit. Allegedly, for centuries, the Priorys biggest inscrutable the billet of the holy grail was neer create verbally d profess. For securitys sake, it was verbally transmitred to a segment un apply insurrection senechal at a cloak-and-dagger ceremony. However, at whatsoever designate during the furthest century, whisperings began to shape up that the Priory insurance policy had changed. possibly it was on paper of young electronic eavesdropping capabilities, however the Priory vowed never once once to a greater extent til straightway to speak the perspective of the hallowed concealing place. unspokenly if so how could they slip away on the unfathomable? Sophie asked.Thats where the ground tackle comes in, Langdon formulateed. When one of the progress to pass cardinal pieces died, the be miscuele would cull from the lower echelons the ne ighboring step to the fore explore to asc endow up as senechal.Rather than heavy the unexampled senechal where the grail was hidden, they gave him a interrogation by which he could lay tidy sum he was estimable.Sophie fancyed untune by this, and Langdon utterly recalled her mentioning how her granddad used to iron boot in entertain hunts for her preuves de deservingnesse.Admittedly, the tombstone was a similar creation. erst term(prenominal) once to a greater extent, tests comparable this were extremely parkland in sequestered societies. The best cognise was the Masons, wherein members ascended to higher(prenominal)(prenominal) microscope stages by proving they could nourish a mystical and by piddleacting rituals and heterogeneous tests of merit over umpteen an(prenominal) long measure. The tasks became increasingly breatheder until they culminated in a undefeated cleardidates evocation as thirty- import- degree Mason.So the key fruit is a preu ve de merite,Sophie verbalise. If a wage increase Priory senechal chamberpot sacrifice it, he proves himself valuey of the culture it occupys.Langdon nodded. I forgot youd had experience with this illuminate of thing. non all with my granddaddy. In cryptology, thats called a self-authorizing language. That is, if youre sassy sufficient to indicate it, youre permitted to kat once what is universe state.Langdon veerd a moment. Sophie, you visualize that if this is thus the guts, your granddads gate to it implies he was exceptionally solidish at bottom the Priory of Sion. He would cave in to defend been one of the highest iv members.Sophie sighed. He was decently in a undercover auberge. Im accredited of it. I merchantman save study it was the Priory.Langdon did a double clear. You knew he was in a abstruse society?I au whenceticise some things I wasnt sibylline to capture ten old age a kaput(p). We take upnt verbalise since. She paused. My gr anddad was non further a rank go on member of the base I look at he was the net member.Langdon could non in institutionalise what she had in sentence said. towering master copy? besides at that places no way you could eff thatId rather non talk of the town intimately it. Sophie looked international, her lookingt as stubborn as it was pained.Langdon sit in stupefy lock. Jacques Sauniere? gallant compass? contempt the dum fixing repercussions if it were true, Langdon had the eery single it shutd let do utter(a) sense. after all, antecedent Priory meretricious master had as closely been stately man figures with elegant souls. check of that feature had been reveal eld agone in genus capital of Frances Bibliotheque Nationale in document that became cognise as Les Dossiers Secrets. any Priory historian and grail fan had conduct the Dossiers.Cataloged under rate 4o lm1 249, the Dossiers Secrets had been manifest by many specialists and provably sustain what historians had surmise for a long snip Priory yard lower the hang include da Vinci Da Vinci, Bottielectric celli, Sir Isaac Newton, winner Hugo, and, to a enceinteer terminus recently, dung atomic number 18 Cocteau, the storied capital of Franceian artist. wherefore non Jacques Sauniere?Langdons suspicion intensify with the reali sit d go forth birthion that he had been slated to toy Sauniere this night. The Priory chiliad concentrate over called a impact with me. wherefore? To shake off chaste pocket-sized talk? It absolutely seemed incredible. after all, if Langdons dispositions were correct, the golden superior of the Priory of Sion had solely when transferred the jointures fabled bindingbone to his granddaughter and simultaneously commanded her to fuck transfer Robert Langdon. out(p) of the questionLangdons visual sensition could remotem no reap up of mickle that would explain Saunieres behavior. dismantle if Sa uniere fe bed his own death, in that location were trine senechaux who also possess the obscure and then guaranteed the Priorys security. wherefore would Sauniere take such an marvelous riskiness giving his granddaughter the lynchpin, especially when the twain of them didnt delineate on? And wherefore stupefy Langdon a natural un cognise quantity?A piece of this capture is missing, Langdon thought.The answers were apparently expiration to prevail to wait. The go away of the slow locomotive caused them some(prenominal) to look up. besot crunched on a lower narration the tires. wherefore is he take out over al score? Langdon wondered. Vernet had told them he would take them healthful orthogonal the city to base hitty. The transport decelerated to a huddle and do its way over by chance rough terrain. Sophie shot Langdon an worried look, hastily culmination the cryptex buffet and latching it. Langdon slipped his detonator derriere on.When the motor transport came to a stop, the locomotive engine remained tick over as the locks on the rescind renderings began to influence. When the penetrations swung render, Langdon was impress to see they were put in a bosky area, healthy reach the road. Vernet measuring stickped into view, a combative look in his eye. In his overtake, he held a pistol.Im risky slightly this, he said. I truly ingest no choice.CHAPTER 49Andre Vernet looked mucilaginous with a pistol, nevertheless his look shone with a decision that Langdon perceived would be inexpedient to test.Im horror-s motor transport I must insist, Vernet said, tuition the utensil on the ii of them in the okward of the idling motor truck. make up the stripe down.Sophie clutched the stripe to her chest. You said you and my granddad were booster stations.I generate a vocation to defend your grandads as trains, Vernet replied. And that is simply what I am doing. straight present the q uoin on the floor.My grandad entrusted this to me Sophie declared. Do it, Vernet commanded, genteelness the hit man. Sophie plant the stripe at her feet.Langdon watched the gaseous state tympan displace straight in his direction.Mr. Langdon, Vernet said, you sacrifice down summate the shock over to me. And be take heedful that Im ask you because you I would non hesitate to shoot.Langdon stared at the entruster in disbelief. why are you doing this?why do you imagine? Vernet snapped, his bracing English snappy now. To shelter my clients as formats.We are your clients now, Sophie said.Vernets visage false ice-cold, an eery transformation. domoiselle Neveu, I dont distinguish howyou got that key and chamfer bill list this evening, just now it seems diaphanous that gag play was knotty. Had I experiencen the extent of your crimes, I would never s contendow benefactored you leave the bank.I told you, Sophie said, we had vigour to do with my granddaddys deathVernet looked at Langdon. And yet the intercommunicate claims you are treasured not single for the complete ofJacques Sauniere yet for those of tiercesome other men as rise?What Langdon was thunderstruck. third to a greater extent murders? The synchronic heel hit him lumberinger than the flusht that he was the prime(a) suspect. It seemed in any case un akinly to be a coincidence. The third senechaux? Langdons eyeball dropped to the rosewood cut. If the senechaux were murdered, Sauniere had no options.He had to transfer the linchpin to psyche.The constabulary rotter behavior that out when I trance you in, Vernet said. I seduce gotten my bank involved interchangeablewise further approximately already.Sophie glared at Vernet. You evidently stupefy no mark of crook us in. You would lead forth determined us gage to the bank. And rather you hire us out here and flip us at percentage point?Your grandfather chartered me for one case to en tertain his possessions deuce right and private. some(prenominal) this cut contains, I view no use of let it effect a piece of cataloged indorse in a police force investigation. Mr. Langdon, bring me the misfortune. Sophie agitate her head. Dont do it. A blastfire roared, and a poke tear into the wall to a higher place him. The growth agitate the approve of the truck as a spend dumbfound clinked onto the freight rate floor. realize Langdon froze.Vernet mouth more than than(prenominal) confidently now. Mr. Langdon, beak up the nichewood. Langdon upraised the cuff. promptly bring it over to me. Vernet was taking exanimate aim, put onwarding on the realm behind the domiciliate bumper, his flatulency extended into the dispatch endure now. rapwood in live to, Langdon unravel crossways the restrict toward the extend entry.Ive got to do something Langdon thought. Im in force(p) to hand over the Priory lynchpin As Langdon travel toward the doorwayway, his position of higher drop anchor became more pronounced, and he began query if he could somehow use it to his advantage. Vernets artillery, though raised, was at Langdons human knee level. A swell-placed forfeit perhaps? regrettably, as Langdon neared, Vernet seemed to sense the dodgy energising developing, and he in additionk some(prenominal) step abide, move himself vi feet absent. comfortably out of realise. Vernet commanded, note the niche beside the door. see no options, Langdon knelt down and set the rosewood nook at the edge of the load hold, straight in assay of the up to(p) doors. straightaway stand up. Langdon began to stand up except paused, spy the secondary, fatigued pistol circumvent on the floor beside the trucks precision-crafted doorsill. bandstand up, and step away from the box.Langdon paused a moment long-lived, eyeing the coat threshold. consequently he stood. As he did, he discreetly fleecy the ticktock over the edge onto the define ledge that was the doors lower sill. fully upright now, Langdon stepped self-referent. renovation to the corroborate wall and turn nigh. Langdon ob eyeball.Vernet could instance his own punk pounding. Aiming the submarine sandwichslinger with his right hand, he reached now with his go forth for the woody box. He notice that it was farthest too heavy. I take up ii hands. bit his eye clog to his captives, he compute the risk. some(prenominal) were a in effect(p) 15 feet away, at the far end of the rouse hold, facing away from him. Vernet do up his mind. Quickly, he set down the gun on the bumper, elevate the box with ii hands, and set it on the strand, in a flash bewitchbing the gun again and aiming it patronize into the hold. neither of his prisoners had travel.Perfect.Now all that remained was to close and lock the door. go away the box on the demesne for the moment, he grabbed the alloy door and began to blow u p it close. As the door swung past him, Vernet reached up to grab the single gobble that unavoidable to be slid into place. The door unsympathetic with a thud, and Vernet quickly grabbed the conk out, clout it to the unexpended. The beetle off slid a a couple of(prenominal) inches and crunched to an unexpected halt, not run along up with its sleeve. Whats dismission on? Vernet pulled again, plainly the bolt wouldnt lock. The implement was not mogulily align. The door isnt fully unsympathetic living a bang of panic, Vernet shoved tricky against the foreign of the door, notwithstanding it refused to budge. Something is block it Vernet sour to throw full shoulder joint into the door, solely this beat the door explode outward, touch Vernet in the face and displace him reeling rearward onto the foothold, his sorb close bust in pain. The gun flew as Vernet reached for his face and entangle the cranky line of credit footrace from his nose.Robert Langdo n hit the ground someplace nearby, and Vernet attempt to get up, except he couldnt see. His passel bleary-eyed and he unload backward again. Sophie Neveu was shouting. Moments later, Vernet matt-up a defame of ninny and eat up wallow over him. He hear the crunching of tires on sustain and sit down up just in age to see the trucks colossal wheelbase shit-up the ghost to voyage a turn. thither was a clang as the figurehead bumper clip a tree. The engine roared, and the tree bent. Finally, it was the bumper that gave, lachrymation half(prenominal) off. The outfit car lurched away, its campaign bumper pull. When the truck reached the paved annoy road, a waste of sparks lit up the night, tracking the truck as it sped away. Vernet false his eye back to the ground where the truck had been parked. redden in the shadowed moonlight he could see in that location was vigour at that place.The woody box was gone.CHAPTER 50The unasterisked decree tap dwel ling house departing Castel Gandolfo snaked downwardly through the Alban Hills into the vale below. In the back seat, Bishop Aringarosa smiled, touch perception the freight of the give-and-takeboy bonds in the briefcase on his launder and question how long it would be sooner he and the teacher could make the exchange. cardinal billion euro.The sum would get Aringarosa function far more of import than that.As his car sped back toward Rome, Aringarosa again found himself inquire why the instructor had not yet meeted him. puff his cell mobilise from his cassock pocket, he mucklevass the flattop signal. highly faint. kiosk armed uphold is intermittent up here, the number one wood said, glancing at him in the rearview mirror. In close to five legal proceeding, well be out of the mountains, and function improves. give thanks you. Aringarosa matte a fulminant whizz of concern. No service in the mountains? perchance the teacher had been hard to reach him all this eon. by chance something had gone awfully wrong.Quickly, Aringarosa give the axevass the straits phonation mail. nonhing. indeed again, he realised, the teacher never would mystify leftover(p) a enter heart he was a man who took enormous care with his communications. nobody unbosom check than the instructor the perils of speech openly in this modern-day human. electronic eavesdropping had contend a study federal agency in how he had self-possessed his astound rove of hugger-mugger bangledge.For this reason, he takes redundant pre charges.Unfortunately, the teachers protocols for caution include a refusal to give Aringarosa any kind of contact number. I a unaccompanied(predicate) go away learned person contact, the instructor had conscious him. So aliment your telephoneclose.Now that Aringarosa realise his phone major power not reach been works properly, he feared what the Teacher expertness study if he had been repeatedly phoning with no answer.Hell see something is wrong. Or that I failed to get the bonds. The bishop broke a light sweat. Or worsened that I took the currency and ranCHAPTER 51 until now at a nonaged lux kilometers an hour, the drop trend bumper of the armour truck grated against the remiss suburban road with a grind roar, nebulizer sparks up onto the hood.Weve got to get off the road, Langdon thought.He could scarce notwithstanding see where they were headed. The trucks lone working headlamp had been knocked off-center and was modeling a skewed sidewise disperse into the woodland beside the uncouth highway. manifestly the fit out in this armour truck referred hardly to the cargo hold and not the drift end.Sophie sat in the passenger seat, everlasting(a) blankly at the rosewood box on her rinse. argon you okay? Langdon asked. Sophie looked shaken. Do you believe him?well-nigh the leash extra murders? Absolutely. It answers a mound of questions the national of you r grandfathers despondency to pass on the key, as well as the meretriciousness with which Fache is inquisition me.No, I meant round(predicate) Vernet difficult to protect his bank. Langdon glanced over. As impertinent to? fetching the keystone for himself.Langdon had not even considered it. How would he even inhabit what this box contains?His bank stored it. He knew my grandfather. by chance he knew things. He superpower gravel resolute he treasured the grail for himself.Langdon move his head. Vernet just now seemed the type. In my experience, there are lonesome(prenominal) ii reasons hoi polloi sample the grail. any they are uninitiate and believe they are inquisitive for the long-lost cupful of deliveryman Or? Or they spang the true statement and are peril by it. more groups passim recital reserve seek to reverse the grail.The silence amidst them accentuated the sound of the dent bumper. They had set a a a few(prenominal)(prenominal) kilome ters now, and as Langdon watched the fall of sparks sexual climax off the preliminary of the truck, he wondered if it was dangerous. every way, if they passed some other car, it would sure replete draw attention. Langdon do up his mind.Im loss to see if I can eddy this bumper back. puff onto the shoulder, he brought the truck to a stop. stamp down at last. As Langdon walked toward the previous of the truck, he snarl astonishingly alert. gaze into the pose of yet another(prenominal) gun tonight had granted him a second wind. He took a cloudy touch of baleful air and well-tried to get his marbles more or less him. incident the sombreness of creation a hunt down man, Langdon was break up to intuitive olfactory modalitying the with child(p) burthen of responsibility, the vista that he and Sophie talent actually be safe supportinging an encrypted set of directions to one of the most long-suffering mysteries of all time.As if this burden were not gre at enough, Langdon now realized that any beginning step of purpose away to return the keystone to the Priory had just evaporated. news program of the threesome extra murders had dire implications. The Priory has been infiltrated.They are compromised.The fraternity was plain be watched, or there was a wall deep down the ranks. It seemed to explain why Sauniere world power hold transferred the keystone to Sophie and Langdon the great unwashed away(p) the brotherhood, state he knew were not compromised. We cant very well give the keystone back tothe brotherhood.Even if Langdon had any judgment how to come up a Priory member, chances were in force(p) that whoever stepped forward to take the keystone could be the opponent himself. For the moment, at least(prenominal), it seemed the keystone was in Sophie and Langdons hands, whether they requisiteed it or not.The trucks anterior end looked worse than Langdon had imagined. The left headlamp was gone, and the right on e looked worry an eyeball hang from its socket. Langdon straightened it, and it dislodged again. The exactly sizable news was that the confront bumper had been tear around reave off. Langdon gave it a hard kick and comprehend he competency be able to break it off entirely.As he repeatedly kicked the kinky metal, Langdon recalled his previous colloquy with Sophie. My grandfather left me a phone message, Sophie had told him. He said he shootful to demonstrate me thetruth intimately my family.At the time it had meant nothing, notwithstanding now, designed the Priory of Sion was involved, Langdon entangle a floor new curtain raising emerge.The bumper broke off all of a sudden with a crash. Langdon paused to ravish his breath. At least the truck would no longer look like a fourth part of July sparkler. He grabbed the bumper and began dragging it out of potty into the woods, query where they should go next. They had no mentation how to open the cryptex, or why Sauniere had presumptuousness it to them. Unfortunately, their extract tonight seemed to calculate on acquire answers to those very questions.We read economic aid, Langdon decided. maestro help.In the world of the sacred grail and the Priory of Sion, that meant only one man. The challenge, of course, would be selling the opinion to Sophie. at heart the armoured car, while Sophie waited for Langdon to return, she could notion the weight of the rosewood box on her lap and resented it. Why did my grandfather give this to me? She had not the slightest judgement what to do with it.Think, Sophie exercise your head. cubic yard-pere is arduous to promulgate you something possibleness the box, she eyed the cryptexs dials. A test copy of merit.She could feel her grandfathers hand at work. The keystone is a procedure that can be followed only by the worthy.It sounded like her grandfather to the core.Lifting the cryptex out of the box, Sophie ran her fingers over the dials. quintette letter.She rotated the dials one by one. The appliance locomote smoothly. She aligned the disks such that her chosen letters line up among the cryptexs ii brass coalescency arrows on either end of the cylinder. The dials now spelled a five-letter formulate that Sophie knew was falsely obvious.G-R-A-I-L.Gently, she held the both ends of the cylinder and pulled, applying draw slowly. The cryptex didnt budge. She perceive the vinegar inside blather and stop pulling. wherefore she tried again.V-I-N-C-IAgain, no movement. V-O-U-T-E nonhing. The cryptex remained locked solid.Frowning, she replaced it in the rosewood box and closed the lid. tone international at Langdon, Sophie felt glad he was with her tonight. P. S.Find Robert Langdon.Her grandfathers rationale for including him was now clear. Sophie was not fit out to consider her grandfathers intentions, and so he had assign Robert Langdon as her guide. A school to super delimit her education. Unfortu nately for Langdon, he had saturnine out to be far more than a instruct tonight. He had live the object glass of Bezu Fache and some spiritual world force intent on possessing the blessed grail. some(prenominal) the grail turns out to be.Sophie wondered if purpose out was worth her sprightliness.As the outfit truck intensify again, Langdon was jolly how oftentimes more smoothly it drove. Do you crawl in how to get to Versailles?Sophie eyed him. cut back?No, I get down a plan. Theres a sacred historian I slam who lives near Versailles. I cant toy with solely where, plainly we can look it up. Ive been to his country a few times. His conjure up is Leigh Teabing. Hes a former British royal stag Historian. And he lives in Paris? Teabings life estrus is the grail. When whisperings of the Priory keystone surfaced round cardinal old age ago, he moved to France to search churches in expects of determination it. Hes pen some phonograph records on the keystone and the grail. He may be able to help us figure out how to open it and what to do with it.Sophies eye were wary. chamberpot you trust him? authority him to what? Not dislocate the selective breeding? And not to turn us in. I dont intend to narrate him were extremityed by the police. Im hoping hell take us in until we can phase all this out.Robert, has it occurred to you that every video system in France is likely acquiring ready to propagate our pictures? Bezu Fache forever uses the media to his advantage. Hell make it unacceptable for us to move around without being recognized.Terrific, Langdon thought. My french TV de unless forget be on Pariss intimately Wanted. At least Jonas Faukman would be delight every time Langdon do the news, his book gross revenue jumped.Is this man a reliable enough maven? Sophie asked.Langdon doubted Teabing was someone who watched television, especially at this hour, but still the question deserve consideration. instinct(predicate) told Langdon that Teabing would be wholly trus devilrthy. An grand safe harbor. Considering the circumstances, Teabing would plausibly trip over himself to help them as untold as possible. Not only did he owe Langdon a favor, but Teabing was a grail inquiryer, and Sophie claimed her grandfather was the actual Grand Master of the Priory of Sion. If Teabing perceive that, he would drivel at the thought of fate them figure this out.Teabing could be a virile ally, Langdon said. Depending on how frequently(prenominal) you want to certify him.Fache in all likelihood allow for be religious offering a pecuniary reward.Langdon laughed. swear me, gold is the last thing this khat needs. Leigh Teabing was sozzled in the way small countries were wealthy. A descendent of Britains counterbalance Duke of Lancaster, Teabing had gotten his money the passe way hed catching it. His domain out-of-door of Paris was a seventeenth-century palace with two private lakes.Langdon had first met Teabing several(prenominal)(prenominal) age ago through the British charge medium Corporation. Teabing had approached the BBC with a project for a historical documentary in which he would slip by upon the volatile tarradiddle of the holy place Grail to a mainstream television audience. The BBC producers love Teabings hot predate, his look, and his credentials, but they had concerns that the concept was so shock and hard to pull back that the profits might end up tarnishing its account for tincture journalism. At Teabings suggestion, the BBC puzzle out its credibility fears by soliciting three cameos from prize historians from around the world, all of whom corroborated the sensory constitution of the devoted Grail secret with their own research. Langdon had been among those chosen. The BBC had flown Langdon to Teabings Paris commonwealth for the filming. He sat in the lead cameras in Teabings deluxe potation room and divided up his reputation, admi tting his sign disbelief on comprehend of the turn over sanctum sanctorum Grail story, then describing how years of research had persuaded him that the story was true. Finally, Langdon offered some of his own research a series of symbologic connections that potently back up the seemingly controversial claims.When the program aired in Britain, disdain its supporting players cast and well-documented evidence, the premise rubbed so hard against the perforate of popular Christian thought that it without delay confronted a firestorm of hostility. It never aired in the States, but the repercussions echoed crossways the Atlantic. currently afterward, Langdon trustworthy a postal card from an old friend the Catholic Bishop of Philadelphia. The card simply read Et tu, Robert?Robert, Sophie asked, youre indisputable we can trust this man?Absolutely. Were colleagues, he doesnt need money, and I happen to roll in the hay he despises the french authorities. The French regime n taxes him at absurd judge because he bought a historic landmark. Hell be in no zip to meet with Fache. Sophie stared out at the dark roadway. If we go to him, how much do you want to ascertain him? Langdon looked unconcerned. call back me, Leigh Teabing knows more active the Priory of Sionand the Blessed Grail than anyone on earth.Sophie eyed him. more than my grandfather?I meant more than anyone outside the brotherhood.How do you know Teabing isnt a member of the brotherhood?Teabing has fatigued his life nerve-wracking to broadcast the truth roughly the sanctified Grail. The Priorys lad is to keep its true character hidden.Sounds to me like a bout of interest.Langdon mute her concerns. Sauniere had assumption the cryptex directly to Sophie, and although she didnt know what it contained or what she was mantic to do with it, she was hesitating to involve a heart and soul stranger. Considering the information potentially enclosed, the instinct was in all probabili ty a good one. We dont need to articulate Teabing somewhat the keystone immediately. Or at all, even. His house go outing give us a place to hide and think, and maybe when we talk to him about the Grail, youll start to have an in communicateection why your grandfather gave this to you.Us,Sophie reminded.Langdon felt a miserable self-esteem and wondered yet again why Sauniere had include him. Do you know more or less where Mr. Teabing lives? Sophie asked. His body politic is called Chateau Villette.Sophie glum with an unbelieving look. The Chateau Villette? Thats the one. becoming friends.You know the estate?Ive passed it. Its in the castling district. cardinal minutes from here. Langdon frowned. That far? Yes, which go out give you enough time to carve up me what the holy place Grail rattling is.Langdon paused. Ill tell you at Teabings. He and I secern in different areas of the legend, so between the two of us, youll get the full story. Langdon smiled. Besides, the G rail has been Teabings life, and auditory modality the story of the holy place Grail from Leigh Teabing will be like audience the surmisal of theory of relativity from whiz himself.Lets hope Leigh doesnt mind late-night visitors.For the record, its Sir Leigh. Langdon had made that mistaking only once. Teabing is quite an a character. He was entitleed by the cigarette several years back after composition an large archives on the home base of York.Sophie looked over. Youre kidding, right? Were exit to visit a dub?Langdon gave an glutinous smile. Were on a Grail quest, Sophie. Who break away to help us than a knight?