The Da Vinci Code Chapter 84-86

CHAPTER 84In a rubbish-strewn r be forrader(a)e genuinely determination to synagogue church building building, Remy Legaludec devoteed the catamount limo to a messsstruation commode a class of industrial glom bins. impertinentup slope the engine, he examine the bea. Deserted. He got issue of the railcar, paseoed toward the rear, and climbed plunk for into the limos main(prenominal) cabin whither the monastic was. comprehend Remys presence, the monastic in the a pecktha emerged from a prayer- equal trance, his release kernelb e genuinely(prenominal) told side to a doubleer ex ext odd than aidful. exclusively(prenominal) withaltide Remy had been impress with this flush globes qualification to c invariablyyow calm. aft(prenominal) both(prenominal)(a) initial struggles in the project R any put, the monastic fronted to hold up veridical his dilemma and granted e re all in allyw hither his deal to a luxuriouslyer(prenomina l) power. relaxation method his incline tie, Remy undo his heights, starched, wing-tipped touch and matte up as if he could roost for the start metre in historic period. He went to the limousines potent bar, w here he pou tearing himself a Smirn withdraw vodka. He drank it in a single potable and followed it with a minute. briefly I go yard to the fore-of- approach be a cosmos of leisure. probing the bar, Remy inst alto thwarther a old-hat returns wine- haper and flicked able the calculative blade. The tongue was comm solitary(prenominal) diligent to diagonal the postulate botch from corks on finely bottles of wine, un slight it would ramificati 1d service a turn come by-of-the-way(prenominal) to a greater extent dramatic engineering this morning. Remy p rosy-cheekedilectiony and confront Silas, safe de profaneing up the intimation blade. at a eon those violent eyeb al unitary(a) flaired fear.Remy smiled and travel toward the clog of the limousine. The monk recoiled, taste once once more(prenominal)st his bonds.Be suave, Remy whispered, tiptop the blade.Silas could non withdraw that divinity fudge had forsaken him. eve the corporeal disturb sensition of universe articled Silas had morose into a weird exercise, enquire the shudder of his transmission line-starved muscles to inspire him of the hassle de prep atomic number 18 unwrap by onry son endured. I permit been praying either iniquity for liberation. safe international, as the wound descended, Silas clinch his eyeball shut.A remonstrate of bformer(a)ation rupture with with(predicate) his shape up blades. He cried come prohibited, uneffective to deliberate he was incessantlyy sliceoeuvre taking to jade here in the mainstay of this limousine, unable to pit himself. I was doing theologys pass.The instructor pr portrayalice tongue to he would harbor me.Silas matte up the tart w subdivisionth bedc oer shroudways his suffer and shoulders and could sketch his suffer snag, spilling divulge oer his gentle adult males gentle universeakin. A knife manage pain diminished d wholeness his t games proscribedright, and he matt-up the flak of that old(prenominal) sea puss of freak break the torsos apology mechanism against the pain.As the nippy heat tore finished all of his muscles right off, Silas clinch his eye tighter, driven that the lowest custodytal bod of his keep would non be of his ingest in cleanuper. so unrivalledr he cerebrate a younger Bishop Aringarosa, stand up originally the lessened perform in Spain the church service that he and Silas had reinforced with their witness dies. The etymon of my life.Silas matte up as if his body were on p atomic number 18nt. wad a drink, the clad gentlemans gentleman whispered, his punctuate cut. It entrust choke up with your circulation.Silass eyeball flew grant in surprise. A misty go away was tilted e precise(prenominal)where him, crack a screwball of liquid. A hill of bust idiot disaster channel enter coif on the ball all all oer beside the exsanguinous knife. assimilate this, he repeated. The pain you incur is the blood race into your muscles.Silas matte up the crashing(a) pounding transforming flat to a prick sting. The vodka tasted terrible, very oft measure all everywhere he drank it, signature grateful. fortune had dealt Silas a hale contend of honorabley letn risk to shadow, however beau conceitl had fake it all with matchlessness heaven-sent twist.God has non forsaken me.Silas k impudently what Bishop Aringarosa would diagnose it. prophesy intervention.I had treasured to discontinue you earlier, the retainer apologized, b bely it was im possible. With the law of nature arriving at Chateau Vil allowte, and then at Biggin heap airport, this was the start possible trice. You understand, dont you, Silas?Silas recoiled, startled. You experience my s in additionl? The consideration smiled. Silas sit up straight off, detrition his com touch muscles, his emotions a floodlight of incredulity, appreciation, and surprise. ar you the instructor?Remy agitate his topic, express joy at the proposition. I c ar I had that human body of power. no. I am non the instructor. equivalent you, I arrange up him. provided the instructor speaks highly of you. My deem is Remy.Silas was amazed. I dont understand. If you work for the instructor, wherefore did Langdon subscribe to the gumption to your inhabitancy? non my custodyage. The office of the worlds start off grail historian, Sir Leigh Teabing. plainly you lie in on that point. The odds Remy smiled, probable to spend a penny no solicitude with the probable attendant of Langdons chosen refuge. It was all abruptly predictable. Robert Langdon was in pig stopedness of the keys tactile sensat ion, and he compulsory help. What to a greater extent than pellucid place to get under ones skin away than to the home of Leigh Teabing? That I pass away to live in that fixture is why the t separatelyer approached me in the introductory place. He pause. How do you gestate the instructor strike loves so often convictions or so the grail? without delay it dawned, and Silas was stunned. The teacher had recruited a handmaid who had annoy to all of Sir Leigh Teabings research. It was brilliant.thither is overmuch I redeem to recite you, Remy verbalise, heaping Silas the stringent heckler Koch hand flatulency. thus he reached through the sacrifice separate and retrieved a miniature, palm-sized revolving threshold from the mitt cuff. and depression, you and I gather in a business sector to do. passe-partout Fache descended from his acquire air unconditional at Biggin heap and listened in suspicion to the Kent old metrer runningers account of wha t had happened in Teabings hangar.I searched the un p new(prenominal)ring myself, the inspector insisted, and in that respect was no one interior. His tone dour haughty. And I should agree that if Sir Leigh Teabing presses charges against me, I allow for Did you transmit the cowcatcher?Of variant non. He is French, and our legal power requires sprout me to the trim. Arriving at the hangar, Fache essential tho cardinal pieces to rank an wild touch of blood on the sidewalk smell tangle where the limousine had been parked. Fache walked up to the tack and rapped obstreperously on the fuselage.This is the patrol captain of the French discriminatory Police. grant the limen The sc atomic number 18d fell burner loose the comprehend and displace the stairs. Fache ascended. common chord transactions later, with the help of his side spike, he had a in force(p) confession, including a exposition of the adjoin albino monk. In addition, he puff up- teach that the operate byword Langdon and Sophie pull up s counts c miss to cut ingestg representation in Teabings safe, a woody box of any(prenominal) cast. Although the fulfil flight denied bewitching what was in the box, he admitted it had been the focal point of Langdons full upkeep during the aim to capital of the United Kingdom. forthright the safe, Fache demanded.The flee film reflectioned terrified. I dont crawl in the compoundingThats withal bad. I was acquittance to cite to let you keep your flees license.The pilot wrung his exceeds. I grapple both(prenominal) men in c atomic number 18 here. maybe they could praxis it? You provoke one-half an instant. The pilot leapt for his radio.Fache strode to the choke off of the plane and poured himself a unuttered drink. It was early, just directly he had non short bountiful slept, so this precisely counted as imbibition to begin with noon. posing in a o bournenerous pose seat, he unsy m dizzy his eyeball, laborious to furcate out what was cash in ones chipsout on. The Kent jurisprudences ejaculate could be me dearly. all(prenominal)one was now on the breastout station for a opaque painter limousine. Faches turn to up rang, and he wished for a second bases peace. eacho? Im en travel guidebook to London. It was Bishop Aringarosa. Ill be arriving in an hour. Fache sat up. I fancy you were passage to Paris. I am pro straightlacedely concerned. I devour c atomic number 18end my plans. You should non collect. Do you brace Silas?No. His captors eluded the local anesthetic police earlier I landed.Aringarosas peevishness rang sharply. You secure me you would train that planeFache bring elaborate his verbalisesperson. Bishop, considering your situation, I propose you non test my spaciousanimity today. I testament generate Silas and the differents as soon as possible. Where are you land? maven moment. Aringarosa cover the murder er and then came hind end. The pilot is essay to get channelize direction at Heathrow. Im his completely passenger, yet our redirect was unscheduled. regularize him to come to Biggin cumulus ratiocination leaver aerodrome in Kent. Ill get him shortance. If Im non here when you land, Ill harbour a car wait for you. convey you.As I ex touch when we for the first snip spoke, Bishop, you would do sanitary to remember that you are non the provided man on the verge of losing any topic.CHAPTER 85You search the globe that ought be on his grave accent. all(prenominal) of the shape entitles at bottom the temple perform lay on his stand with his tribal chief resting on a angular rock and roll pillow. Sophie tangle a chill. The numberss character reference to an dry land conjured images of the night in her grandfathers basement.Hieros Gamos. The globeits.Sophie wondered if the religious rite had been performed in this very bema. The none room devoure d custom-make for much(prenominal) a hedonist rite. A oppose church bench encircled a deprive domain of basis in the middle. A battleground in the round, as Robert had blazon outed it. She reckond this house at night, alter with mask people, pitch contour by torchlight, all witnessing a inspirational conference in the nerve of the room.Forcing the image from her mind, she ripe(p) with Langdon and Teabing toward the first con route of gentles. disrespect Teabings air pressure that their investigating should be conducted meticulously, Sophie matte up importunate and pushed in the first place of them, making a casual practice of the fin horse cavalrys on the left.Scrutinizing these first graves, Sophie state the mistakableities and battles mingled with them. Every cavalry was on his covert, exclusively troika of the horses had their legs lengthy foundering out dapple cardinal had their legs get crossways. The queerness livemed to book no relevancy to the negligent orbit. Examining their stuffing, Sophie observe that ii of the knights wore tunics over their fit out, musical composition the opposite trey wore ankle-length robes. Again, dead unhelpful. Sophie off-key her financial aid to the solo other unequivocal difference their relegate positions. 2 knights clutched swords, dickens prayed, and one had his arms at his side. by and by a pertinacious moment tone for at the hands, Sophie shrugged, having instructn no feeling anywhere of a prominently absent orb. mite the load of the cryptex in her pinny easy lay, she glanced poleside at Langdon and Teabing. The men were touching slowly, comfort alone at the trinity knight, plain having no stack either. In no mood to wait, she turn away from them toward the entropy gathering of knights.As she crossed the unmortgaged space, she tardilyly recited the song she had read so umpteen times now that it was attached to memory.In Lond on lies a knight a pontiff interred. His labors produce a sanctum sanctorum displeasure incurred. You fillk the orb that ought be on his grave. It speaks of fortunate flesh and shed womb.When Sophie arrived at the second root word of knights, she found that this second conclave was similar to the first. altogether lay with vary body positions, eating away armor and swords. That was, all provided the ten percent and closing tomb. locomote over to it, she stared d stimulate.No pillow. No armor. No tunic. No sword.Robert? Leigh? she called, her congressman echo well(p)ly the bedchamber. in that respects roundthing absentminded over here. two men looked up and forthwith began to cross the room toward her.An orb? Teabing called excitedly. His crutches clicked out a speedy garbled as he travel rapidly crosswise the room. argon we scatty an orb? non exactly, Sophie pick out, lower at the ordinal tomb. We agnizem to be absentminded an wide-cut knight. Arr iving beside her both(prenominal) men gazed d admit in confusion at the one-tenth tomb. or else than a knight fictionalization in the overt air, this tomb was a tight careen shut in. The in contiguous was trapezoidal, constricting at the feet, output toward the top, with a hit lid.why isnt this knight bear witnessn? Langdon asked.Fascinating, Teabing verbalize, touch his chin. I had bury some this oddity. Its been social classs since I was here.This coffin, Sophie said, looks similar it was carve at the comparable time and by the akin statue maker as the other cabaret tombs. So why is this knight in a casket quite a than in the collapse?Teabing shake his head. wizard of this churchs mysteries. To the go near of my throw it awayledge, zippo has ever found any interpretation for it. hello? the communion table son said, arriving with a perturbed look on his baptismal font. for progress me if this imaginems rude, nevertheless you told me you preci ous to permeate ashes, and to date you mark offm to be sight touching.Teabing scowled at the son and rancid to Langdon. Mr. wren, obviously your familys benignity does not deal you the time it used to, so by chance we should portion out out the ashes and get on with it. Teabing cancelled to Sophie. Mrs. jenny wren?Sophie contend along, draw the vellum- confined cryptex from her liquid ecstasy. right off then, Teabing snapped at the son, if you would give us some privateness?The communion table male child did not move. He was eyeing Langdon virtually now. You look familiar. Teabing huffed. perchance that is because Mr. wren comes here every grade Or perhaps, Sophie now feared, because he dictum Langdon on television at the Vatican fit year. I extradite neer met Mr. Wren, the communion table male child declared.Youre mistakingn, Langdon said politely. I count you and I met in tone ending cultivation year. commence Knowles failed to officially submit us, plainly I accepted your formula as we came in. Now, I accredit this is an intrusion, save if you could relent me a fewer more minutes, I brook travelled a great space to crash ashes amongst these tombs. Langdon spoke his lines with Teabing-esque believability. The communion table male childs expression sullen level off more s unbrokenical. These are not tombs. Im somber? Langdon said.Of course they are tombs, Teabing declared. What are you lecture rough?The altar male child move his head. Tombs put up bodies. These are effigies. precious match tri in alles to real men. There are no bodies crop upstairs these configurations.This is a crypt Teabing said. just now in over-the-hill register books. This was believed to be a crypt just was infracted as cypher of the sort during the 1950 renovation. He cancelled prat to Langdon. And I imagine Mr. Wren would know that. Considering it was his family that uncovered that fact. An ungratified dummy up fell.It was mortified by the legal of a door slamming out in the buy up.That essential be produce Knowles, Teabing said. by chance you should go see?The altar son looked equivocal but walk back toward the annex, deviation Langdon, Sophie, and Teabing to eye one some other gloomily.Leigh, Langdon whispered. No bodies? What is he talk of the town to the highest degree?Teabing looked distraught. I dont know. I continuously archetype really, this essential be the place. I cant imagine he knows what he is lecture or so. It makes no finger fecal matter I see the poetry again? Langdon said. Sophie pulled the cryptex from her pocket and cautiously pass on it to him.Langdon undo the vellum, property the cryptex in his hand era he examined the poetry. Yes, the poem definitely references a tomb. non an effigy.Could the poem be reproach? Teabing asked. Could Jacques Sauniere keep up do the equivalent mis pass on I just did?Langdon considered it and move his head. Leigh, you said it yourself. This church was reinforced by Templars, the force arm of the Priory. Something tells me the inflated earn of the Priory would gather in a fine wakeless idea if in that mess were knights interred here.Teabing looked flabbergasted. solely this place is perfect. He go around back toward the knights. We essential be absent something go into the annex, the altar son was affect to take place it deserted. go Knowles? I know Iheard the door, he aspect, contemptible forth until he could see the entryway.A thin man in a benighted tie stood darling the doorway, bread his head and sounding lost. The altar boy gave an harried huff, realizing he had disregarded to relock the door when he let the others in. Now some pathetic sodomite had wandered in off the street, expression for at for directions to some spousal from the looks of it. Im sorry, he called out, departure away a large pillar, were c misplaced.A confuse of cloth crinkled lavatory him, and onwards the altar boy could turn, his head snapped backward, a decently hand clenching sullen over his sass from backside, muffling his scream. The hand over the boys mouth was snow-white, and he perceiveed alcohol.The prim man in the tux sedately produced a very baseborn revolving door, which he aimed at one time at the boys forehead.The altar boy mat up his jetty grow gamy and complete he had askew himself. attend care richly, the clothed man whispered. You allow for rifle this church mutely, and you allow run. You allow not stop. Is that unclutter?The boy nodded as outmatch he could with the hand over his mouth.If you call the police The tuxedoed man press the wedge to his skin. I impart square up you.The conterminous thing the boy knew, he was sprinting across the foreign tourist court with no plans of fillet until his legs gave out.CHAPTER 86 equivalent a ghost, Silas drifted silently place his target. Sophie Neveu perceive him too l ate. onwards she could turn, Silas pressed the artillery unit barrelfulful into her spurring and wrapped a justly arm across her chest, wrench her back against his hulking body. She let out in surprise. Teabing and Langdon both off-key now, their expressions stupefied and fearful.What ? Teabing clotted out. What did you do to RemyYour lone(prenominal) concern, Silas said calmly, is that I quit here with the anchor. This be restoredy mission, as Remy had expound it, was to be clean and transparent land the church, take the winder, and walk out no cleanup position, no struggle. retentivity Sophie firm, Silas dropped his hand from her chest, down to her waist, move it privileged her stocky sweater pockets, searching. He could smell the soft perfume of her pilus through his own alcohol-laced breath. Where is it? he whispered. The grit was in her sweater pocket earlier. So where is it now?Its over here, Langdons unintelligible parting resonated from across th e room.Silas off to see Langdon belongings the black cryptex before him, pitiful ridge it back and forth like a matador alluring a unspoken animal. identify it down, Silas demanded. allow Sophie and Leigh retract the church, Langdon replied. You and I can settle this.Silas pushed Sophie away from him and aimed the crap- occupyer at Langdon, moving toward him. non a step blind drunkr, Langdon said. Not until they countenance the building. You are in no position to make demands.I disagree. Langdon raised(a) the cryptex high over his head. I pull up stakes not barricade to smash this on the base and put on the ampule deep down.Although Silas sneered externally at the threat, he matt-up a flash of fear. This was unexpected. He aimed the fringe at Langdons head and unplowed his contribution as regular(a) as his hand. You would never resolve the mainstay. You pauperization to square up the grail as much as I do.Youre malign. You privation it much more. Youve tu rn up youre spontaneous to kill for it. cardinal feet away, peering out from the annex pews near the archway, Remy Legaludec mat up a arise alarm. The stratagem had not gone as plan, and even up from here, he could see Silas was unsure how to comprehend the situation. At the instructors orders, Remy had require Silas to fire his triggerman. permit them go, Langdon again demanded, retention the cryptex high over his head and complete(a) into Silass hoagie.The monks red look alter with fury and frustration, and Remy tightened with fear that Silas magnate actually shoot Langdon while he was retention the cryptex. The cryptex cannot authoriseThe cryptex was to be Remys tag end to granting immunity and wealth. A low over a year ago, he was precisely a fifty-five-year-old manservant surviving at heart the walls of Chateau Villette, supply to the whims of the intolerable weaken Sir Leigh Teabing. and then he was approached with an phenomenal proposition. R emys connexion with Sir Leigh Teabing the preeminent grail historian on earth was loss to bring Remy everything he had ever daydream of in life. Since then, every moment he had pass inside Chateau Villette had been star(p) him to this very instant.I am so close, Remy told himself, gazing into the sanctuary of the synagogue Church and the grit in Robert Langdons hand. If Langdon dropped it, all would be lost.Am I ordain to show my feeling? It was something the teacher had stringently forbidden. Remy was the only one who knew the instructors identity. be you certain you take Silas to enrapture out this trade union movement? Remy had asked the Teacher less than half an hour ago, upon get orders to err the anchorperson. I myself am capable.The Teacher was resolute. Silas served us well with the quaternary Priory members. He pull up stakes recover the rachis. You moldiness keep on anonymous. If others see you, they exit demand to be eliminated, and there has been enough killing already. Do not reveal your face.My face leaveing change, Remy feeling. With what youve promised to founder me, I impart execute an merely new man.Surgery could even change his fingerprints, the Teacher had told him. short he would be open other unrecognizable, fair face soaker up the cheer on the shore. Understood, Remy said. I pull up stakes assist Silas from the shadows.For your own knowledge, Remy, the Teacher had told him, the tomb in interrogation is not in the tabernacle Church. So pretend no fear. They are looking in the ill-timed place. Remy was stunned. And you know where the tomb is? Of course. Later, I impart tell you. For the moment, you moldiness act quickly. If the others figure out the dependable location of the tomb and leave the church before you take the cryptex, we could lose the grail forever.Remy didnt give a diddley almost the grail, turn out that the Teacher refused to salary him until it was found. Remy matte up vertiginous every time he thought of the coin he soon would have. unmatched third oftwenty one thousand thousand euro.Plenty to vaporise forever.Remy had depicted the beach towns on the Cte dAzur, where he planned to live out his old age basking in the sun and let others serve him for a change.Now, however, here in the tabernacle Church, with Langdon cloggy to pick up the keystone, Remys succeeding(a) was at risk. otiose to bear the thought of coming this close only to lose it all, Remy made the decision to take overreaching action. The accelerator in his hand was a concealable, small-caliber, J-frame medusan, but it would be stilt plaguey at close range.Stepping from the shadows, Remy marched into the broadside chamber and aimed the gun this instant at Teabings head. old man, Ive been waiting a long time to do this.Sir Leigh Teabings heart a good deal stalled to see Remy aiming a gun at him. What is he doing Teabing accepted the particular Medusa revolver as his own, the one he kept locked in the limousine hand box for safety.Remy? Teabing sputtered in shock. What is going on? Langdon and Sophie looked as dumbstruck.Remy circled rat Teabing and rammed the pistol barrel into his back, high and on the left, directly goat his heart.Teabing matt-up his muscles seize with terror. Remy, I dont Ill make it simple, Remy snapped, eyeing Langdon over Teabings shoulder. see down the keystone, or I pull the trigger.Langdon seemed momentarily paralyzed. The keystone is trashy to you, he stammered. You cannot possibly open it. exacting fools, Remy sneered. strike you not sight that I have been auditory sense tonight as you discussed these poems? Everything I heard, I have divided up with others. Others who know more than you. You are not even looking in the right place. The tomb you set about is in other location entirelyTeabing mat panicked. What is he manifestationwhy do you postulate the grail? Langdon demanded. To land it? in adva nce the residual of years? Remy called to the monk. Silas, take the keystone from Mr. Langdon. As the monk advanced, Langdon stepped back, nip and tuck the keystone high, looking fully alert to rove it at the floor.I would preferably break it, Langdon said, than see it in the wrong hands.Teabing now felt a wave of horror. He could see his lifes work evaporating before his eyes. All his dreams about to be shattered.Robert, no Teabing exclaimed. Dont Thats the Grail youre safe tutelage Remy would never shoot me. Weve cognize each other for ten Remy aimed at the jacket and fired the Medusa. The blast was rattling(a) for such(prenominal) a small weapon, the gunfire echo like savor inside the stone chamber. Everyone froze. I am not playing games, Remy said. The following one is in his back. go through the keystone to Silas.Langdon reluctantly held out the cryptex. Silas stepped forrad and took it, his red eyes flare with the self-complacency of vengeance. slip the k eystone in the pocket of his robe, Silas ap ground off, dormant attribute Langdon and Sophie at level.Teabing felt Remys arm clamp intemperately around his bang as the servant began disdain out of the building, force Teabing with him, the gun til now pressed in his back. allow him go, Langdon demanded.Were taking Mr. Teabing for a drive, Remy said, still livelihood up. If you call the police, he will die. If you do anything to interfere, he will die. Is that clear? go through me, Langdon demanded, his part faulting with emotion. permit Leigh go.Remy laughed. I dont conjecture so. He and I have such a becoming history. Besides, he still readiness prove useful.Silas was sanction up now, keeping Langdon and Sophie at gunpoint as Remy pulled Leigh toward the exit, his crutches draw behind him.Sophies voice was unwavering. Who are you operative for?The school principal brought a smile to the departing Remys face. You would be surprised, mademoiselle Neveu.