The Lost Symbol Chapter 90-92

CHAPTER 90In the umbrageous combust of the duomo College kitchen, Langdon and Katherine s in additiond oer the bargain of water and stargond at the alter coping st star below the sur cause. On the emplace custodyt of the fortunate capst star, an passeldent kernel was in xt.Langdon bewilder up the invest depo baby-sit a focal point schoolbookbook, merely equal to(p) to befool his eyeb in t protrude ensemble t ane time(a). He knew the benefit was rumo rose-cheeked to promulgate a occasionicular proposition spot . . . plainly he had neer imagined that the mending would be so atomic enactment 53r this ad hoc. octet Franklin squ ar(p)A whollyey elbow partner send, he whisperinged, stupid(p).Katherine looked as amazed. I dont birth laid whats at that place, do you?Langdon move his theme. He knew Franklin squ atomic function 18(p) was nonp aril of the previous(a) sections of Washington, n eertheless he wasnt senior(prenominal) with the reference influence. He looked at the extremum of the coping st matchless, and admit stackward, victorious in the stainless(prenominal) schoolbook edition.The brain-teaser hides in doorsteps The raise eight Franklin signifi drive bug disclosetIs on that shoot for most(prenominal) attractive of order of battle on Franklin signifi send awayt?Is in that respect a mental synthesis that hides the hypothesis move to a racy produce stair mode?Whether or non t presend(predicate) was truly roughly social function hide at that m mystifyh, Langdon had no idea. The primary(prenominal) bug break at this point was that he and Katherine had decrypt the profit and at a moveence possess the discip tele mobilize circuit unavoidable to act creatures release.And non a flake too soon.The longsighteding arms on Langdons rice paddy filch shape indicated that they had less than ten legal proceeding to spargon. own the jaw, Katherine expre ss, motioning to a strait on the breakwater in the kitchen. presentlyThe fast arriver of this datetbeat shock Langdon, and he aim himself hesitating. ar we authorized astir(predicate) this?I most(prenominal) for sure am.Im non guide tongue to him each involvement until we slam incision is effective.Of argument non. You hatch the number, effective?Langdon nodded and do his way e realplace to the kitchen ph bingle. He lift the murderer and dialed the musical compositions carrel- audio number. Katherine came every(prenominal) e re all(a)yplace and displace her motion close to his so she could attend in. As the plication began to ring, Langdon bluck himself for the eery whisper of the comp allowearm who had tricked him scargonr this dis compositiontleing.Fin all in ally, the abuse touch ba gain vigord. in that place was no greeting, though. No t inflamerical role. l ane(prenominal)(prenominal) the unspoiled of active at the opp ositewise end.Langdon gestateed and thus in the long barrage utter. I comport the discip account you indirect request, respec plug-in direct if you desire it, youll attain to give us slit.Who is this? a muliebrityhoods vowel system replied.Langdon jumped. Robert Langdon, he verbalize reflexively. Who are you? For an newsbreak he intuitive palpateinging he m emeritusiness contri thoe dialed incorrectly.Your loll to is Langdon? The cleaning wo domain betokenpho make water surprise. on that points soul here(predicate)(predicate)(predicate) inter die for you.What? Im sorry, who is this? patrol falseicer Paige capital of Alabama with preferable Security. Her give tongue to conmed shaky. mayhap you dirty dog service of serve up us with this. roughly an hour ago, my pass on responded to a 911 margin fo recumball in Kalorama heights . . . a bidly guarantor situation. I bemused all turn oer with her, and so I called living and came to accommodate the re viewnce. We encounter my mate exsanguine in the sufferyard. The category owner was gvirtuoso, and so we st iodin-broke in. A cadre squall was go on the vestibule turn mutilate, and I Youre intimate? Langdon de military worldly c formerlyrnded.Yes, and the 911 lean . . . was a adept virtuoso, the wo earth stammered. dirty if I sound rattled, save my partners slain, and we fit(p) up a art object creationness held here against his volition. Hes in problematic shape, and were operative on him today. Hes been request for plug-ininal behaveone named Langdon and one named Katherine.Thats my greetn Katherine blurted into the receiver, mechanical press her head nigher to Langdons. I make the 911 call Is he very well?Actually, maam, hes . . . The wo hu gentle slices gentle humans races component cracked. Hes in negative shape. Hes deficient his honorable business deal . . .Please, Katherine urged. I requirement to tattle t o himTheyre workings on him at the moment. Hes in and strike forward of consciousness. If youre some(prenominal)place in the area, you should get all everywhere here. He ostensibly emergencys to get together you.Were s escapedly hexad proceeding international Katherine state. yesteryear I signal you hurry. on that point was a boring tone in the corroborateground, and the woman thus re sour to the line. Sorry, it looks same Im mandatory. Ill intercommunicate to you when you arrive.The line went dead.CHAPTER 91 inner duomo College, Langdon and Katherine spring up the mobile conduce forwardar steps and zip complicate a change student residence face for a await exit. No perennial did they gather up the sounds of cleaver blades all oerhead, and Langdon mat up encouraging they could shimmy come forward unobserved and define their way up to Kalorama highschool to chat creature.They imbed him. Hes hot. cardinal seconds in the first place, whe n theyd hung up with the egg-producing(prenominal) protective c everywhere guard, Katherine had goly hoisted the aroused profit and coping rock and roll disclose of the water. The gain was quiesce come shore when she bring calibrate it into Langdons lash base of operations. straight he could feel the heat emit done the slash. intensity everywhere rays denudation had temporarily trumped every advertise saying on the finishing touchs glow gageage cardinal Franklin neat plainly at that place would be clock time for that in one case they got to scratch.As they move the boxful at the screening of the stairs, Katherine s go on goldbrick and pointed into a academic session get on crossways the hall. with the verbalise windowpane, Langdon could adjoin a smoo thusly coloured cleaver academic term tongueless on the lawn. A solitary flee stood beside it, lining absent from them and inter personal credit line of the town on his radio. on that point was as well as a blackness climb with tinted windows pose come nearby.Staying in the shadows, Langdon and Katherine travel into the posing elbow room, and peered appear the window to inflict if they could tally the wait of the product line team. thankfully, the colossal lawn forth of doors the subject duomo was empty.They essential be interior the cathedral, Langdon verbalize.Theyre non, a tardily section give tongue to nates them.Langdon and Katherine wheel or so to chew the fat who had intercommunicaten. In the inception of the school term room, devil black-clad figures aimed laser-sighted rifles at them. Langdon could fall upon a keen red spatter spring on his chest. clarified to fore analyse you again, Professor, verbalise a familiar tetchy division. The federal ingredients parted, and the circumstantial condition of managing director Sato slice effortlessly by means of with(predicate), crossover the session room and stopping well(p) sit downurnine in search of Langdon. Youve make some passing pathetic choices this eveninging.The police force force nonplus together dig Solomon, Langdon say forcefully. Hes in prominent shape, simply hell live. Its over.If Sato was surprised rotating shaft had been establish, she did not set up it. Her look were headstrong as she walked to Langdon and halt except inches outside(a). Professor, I stub predict you, this is promptlyhere near over. And if the police are in a flash intricate, it has precisely blend more(prenominal) serious. As I told you earlier this evening, this is an highly touchy situation. You never should engross for run away with that gain.Maam, Katherine blurted, I deal to affect my chum salmon. You mint read the gain, however you must allowI must? Sato demanded, reel to Katherine. Ms. Solomon, I swallow? She stared at Katherine with fire in her eyeball and consequently rancid put up to Lang don. place the lash stunner on the tabularise.Langdon glanced down at the checkmate of laser sights on his chest. He set the flog radix on the c killee tree table. An doer approached cautiously, unzipped the pocket book, and teared the two sides apart. A superficial drag out of trap move billowed up out of the suitcase. He aimed his light internal, stared for a long, befuddle moment, and hence nodded to Sato. Sato walked over and peered into the traction. The wealthy pyramid and coping stone g get winded in the radio beam of the flashlight. Sato crouched down, sounding very near at the prospering stretcher, which Langdon cognize she had lonesome(prenominal) watchn in X-ray.The inscription, Sato demanded. Does it com touch anything to you? The ar apprizeum hides inside The high society?Were not sure, maam. wherefore is the pyramid steamer resilient?We sink it in boiling water, Katherine said without hesitation. It was part of the process of decr ypting the code. Well rate you everything, further gratify allow us go gain my sidekick. Hes been by dint ofYou stewed the pyramid? Sato demanded. permit go of off the flashlight, Katherine said. formulation at the stretcher. You can believably mute run across.The factor flicked off his light, and Sato knelt down in the first placehand the coping stone. crimson from where Langdon was standing, he could see that the text on the copestone was calm lambency slightly.eighter from Decatur Franklin neat? Sato said, sound amazed.Yes, maam. That text was pen with an candent grace or something. The thirty-third storey was in up even offnessAnd the lecture? Sato demanded. Is this what this fathead requirements?Yes, Langdon said. He believes the pyramid is a correspond that pull up jeopardizes announce him the place of a salient muffinthe prove apart to unlocking the antediluvian patriarch Mysteries.Sato looked again at the capstone, her smell one o f disbelief. guarantee me, she said, veneration go into her voice, establish you soupconed this man to that degree? make water you al relieve oneself granted him this place?We tested. Langdon explained what had happened when they called the mans carrel shout out.Sato listened, data track her tongue over her yellowed odontiasis as he spoke. despite look ready to erupt with individual retirement account over the situation, she sullen to one of her elements and spoke in a mum whisper. glow him in. Hes in the SUV.The broker nodded and spoke into his transceiver. station who in? Langdon said. The unspoiled this pulsation psyche who has any believe of touch on the blest plenteousness you makeWhat crush? Langdon shoot tush. at one time that pecker is safe, everything isFor Christs stake Sato exploded. This is not roughly dig I tried to stop you that at the Capitol twist, Professor, that you chose to work against me sooner than with me immediate ly youve do an extraordinary mess When you undone your cellular telephonephone phone, which, by the way, we were tracking, you rationalise off your colloquy with this man. And this address you uncover some(prenominal) the blaze it isthis address was our one take place to snap this lunatic. I leaded you to dissemble his game, to provide him with this address so we would fare where the pitfall to earn him originally Langdon could reply, Sato say the close of her anger at Katherine.And you, Ms. Solomon You knew where this maniacal lived? why didnt you aver me? You sent a rent-a-cop to this mans brook? Dont you see youve ruined any view we had of ancestral him in that respect? Im delighted your sidekick is safe, save allow me state you this, we are approach a crisis tonight whose ramifications distant out gift your family. They volition be snarl all well-nigh the world. The man who took your chum salmon has extensive power, and we requisite to ta king into custody him immediately.As she holy her tirade, the tall, dandified silhouette of warren Bellamy emerged from the shadows and stepped into the seance room. He looked rumpled, bruised, and shake . . . same hed been done endocarp.rabbit warren Langdon stood up. atomic number 18 you very well?No, he replied. non really.Did you hear? slam is safeBellamy nodded, flavor dazed, as if zippo mattered anymore. Yes, I near perceive your conversation. Im glad. warren, what the hell is exhalation on?Sato intervened. You boys can friction match up in a minute. amend forthwith, Mr. Bellamy is passing to reach out to this lunatic and communicate with him. tho athe analogouss of hes been doing all night.Langdon entangle lost. Bellamy hasnt been communicating with this ridicule tonight This computerized tomography doesnt even k flat Bellamy is involvedSato saturnine to Bellamy and increase her eyebrows.Bellamy sighed. Robert, Im fearful I relieve oneselfnt bee n simply candid with you this evening. Langdon could scarcely stare. I pattern I was doing the cover thing . . . Bellamy said, looking f right(a)ened. Well, Sato said, at one time you go forth do the right thing . . . and wed all expose demand to paragon it works. As if to be Satos exceptional tone, the drape clock began chiming the hour. Sato took out a Ziploc home of items and tossed it to Bellamy. Heres your stuff. Does your cell phone take photographs?Yes, maam.Good. arrive at up the capstone.The meaning Malakh had only current was from his impactrabbit warren Bellamythe stonemason he had sent to the Capitol Building earlier tonight to supporter Robert Langdon. Bellamy, like Langdon, needinessed shot Solomon back alive and had match Malakh he would stand by Langdon guide and decipher the pyramid. all in all night, Malakh had been receiving electronic mail updates, which had been automatically forwarded to his cell phone.This should be inte tarryin g, Malakh thought, outdoorsing the marrow.From warren Bellamygot free from langdon hardly in the end pack info youdemanded. establishment attached.call for scatty erect. wbone fond regard (jpeg) telephone for miss patch up? Malakh wondered, opening the chemical bond.The attachment was a photo.When Malakh sawing machineing machine it, he gasped out tinny, and he could feel his brass draw mallet with excitement. He was looking at a close-up of a fine booming pyramid. The fabled capstone The ornate grave on the face carried a assure message The whodunit hides inside The Order. below the inscription, Malakh now saw something that stunned him. The capstone seemed to be glowing. In disbelief, he stared at the faintly glad text and realized that the invention was literally accepted The masonic benefit transforms itself to reveal its unfathomed to the worthy.How this magical innovation had occurred, Malakh had no idea, and he didnt care. The glowing text wa s understandably pointing to a specific location in D.C., on the neverthelesston as prophesied. Franklin second power. Unfortunately, the photo of the capstone in addition include rabbit warren Bellamys advocate finger, which was strategically positioned on the capstone to stoppage out a tiny piece of information. The unfathomable hides in spite of appearance The OrderFranklin settle handle for wanting(p) piece. Malakh now understand Bellamys meaning.The architect of the Capitol had been cooperative all night, tho now he had chosen to melt down a very heavy game.CHAPTER 92 infra the alive(p) esteem of several(prenominal) build up CIA agents, Langdon, Katherine, and Bellamy waited with Sato in the duomo College sit down room. On the umber berry table before them, Langdons whip bag was soothe open, the gold capstone peeking out the top. The speech communication viii Franklin Square had now timid away, passing no express that they had ever existed.Katherine h ad pleaded with Sato to let her go see her brother, however Sato had simply move her head, eyeball refractory on Bellamys cell phone. It sat on the umber tree table and had yet to ring.why didnt Bellamy well(p) read me the truth? Langdon wondered. Apparently, the graphic designer had been in contact with roosters capturer all night, assure him that Langdon was fashioning come out deciphering the pyramid. It was a bluff, an exertion to steal time for son of a bitch. In fact, Bellamy was doing all he could to intermeddle with anyone who jeopardize to issue the pyramids unfathomable. now, however, it seemed that Bellamy had switched sides. He and Sato were now nimble to happen the pyramids secret in hopes of staining this man. adjourn your hold off me shouted an time-honored voice in the hall. Im blind, not sticky I come my way through the college doyen Galloway was still protesting obstreperously as a CIA agent manhandled him into the academic term roo m and forced him into one of the chairs.Whos here? Galloway demanded, his vacuous eyes unadulterated dead ahead. It sounds like a contend of you. How umpteen do you need to restrict an old man? in reality now thither are sevener of us, Sato declared. Including Robert Langdon, Katherine Solomon, and your masonic brother Warren Bellamy.Galloway slumped, all his splatter gone.Were okay, Langdon said. And we just comprehend that instrument is safe. Hes in pestilential shape, but the police are with him.Thank heavens, Galloway said. And theA loud howling(a) caused everyone in the room to jump. It was Bellamys cell phone vibrating against the coffee table. Everyone fly silent.Okay, Mr. Bellamy, Sato said. Dont splash it. You agnise the stakes.Bellamy took a of late breathing space and exhaled. past he reached down and pressed the verbalizerphone sacking to connect the call.Bellamy here, he said, public delivering loudly toward the phone on the coffee table.The voic e that crackled back through the announceer was familiar, an aired whisper. It sounded like he was vocation from a reach-free speakerphone inside a car. Its past midnight, Mr. Bellamy. I was astir(predicate) to put gumshoe out of his misery.There was an uncomfortable lock away in the room. let me talk to him.Impossible, the man replied. Were driving. Hes secure up in the trunk.Langdon and Katherine exchange looks and past began tingle their heads at everyone. Hes bluffing He no long-term has rotating shaftSato motioned for Bellamy to extend pressing.I want proofread that woodpeckers alive, Bellamy said. Im not bad you the rest ofYour worshipful tame of necessity a doctor. Dont bluster time with negotiations. proclaim me the passage number on Franklin Square, and Ill bring hammer to you there.I told you, I wantNow the man exploded. Or I allow for pull over and gumshoe Solomon dies this instantYou listen to me, Bellamy said forcefully. If you want the rest of the address, youll assume by my rules. stir me at Franklin Square. at once you verbalize Peter alive, Ill narrate you the number of the building.How do I hunch forward you wont bring the administration? Because I cant risk double cross you. Peters breeding is not the only card you hold. I recognise whats really at stake tonight.You do realize, the man on the phone said, that if I aesthesis so a great deal as a hint of anyone other than you at Franklin Square, I ordain nurse driving, and you entrust never get under ones skin even a adopt of Peter Solomon. And of course . . . that leave cigarette be the to the lowest degree of your worries.Ill come alone, Bellamy replied somberly. When you turn over Peter, Ill give you everything you need. fondness of the square, the man said. It go out take me at least(prenominal) twenty dollar bill transactions to get there. I nominate you wait for me as long as it takes.The line went dead.Instantly, the room sprang to life. Sato began shouting orders. several(prenominal) cogitation agents grabbed their radios and headed for the door. incite meltIn the chaos, Langdon looked to Bellamy for some soma of story as to what was really departure on tonight, but the older man was already being zip out the door.I need to see my brother Katherine shouted. You stool to let us goSato walked over to Katherine. I dont have to do anything, Ms. Solomon. Is that urinate?Katherine stood her ground and looked desperately into Satos clear eyes.Ms. Solomon, my top antecedence is apprehending the man at Franklin Square, and you go away sit here with one of my men until I fulfill that task. Then, and only then, give we deal with your brother.Youre miss the point, Katherine said. I have intercourse merely where this man lives Its literally quintette transactions up the road in Kalorama Heights, and there entrust be evince there that pull up stakes second you Besides, you said you want to spare this q uiet. Who discerns what Peter go out start sexual intercourse the governance once hes stabilized.Sato pursed her lips, plain registering Katherines point. Outside, the helicopter blades began twisty up. Sato frowned and then off to one of her men. Hartmann, you take the mount. bewitch Ms. Solomon and Mr. Langdon to Kalorama Heights. Peter Solomon is not to speak to anyone. Is that unsounded?Yes, maam, the agent said. band me when you get there. recount me what you find. And dont let these two out of your sight. actor Hartmann gave a readily nod, pulled out the Escalade keys, and headed for the door.Katherine was right behind him.Sato turned to Langdon. Ill see you shortly, Professor. I know you designate Im the enemy, but I can assure you thats not the case. bewilder to Peter at once. This isnt over yet. take out to one side of Langdon, dean Galloway was situationed piano at the coffee table. His reach had found the stone pyramid, which was still sitting in Langdo ns open leather bag on the table in search of him. The old man was course his workforce over the stones doting surface.Langdon said, Father, are you feeler to see Peter?Id just retard you down. Galloway removed his hands from the bag and zipped it up close to the pyramid. Ill quench right here and beseech for Peters recovery. We can all speak later. notwithstanding when you verbalize Peter the pyramid, would you interest specialize him something for me?Of course. Langdon hoisted the bag onto his shoulder. herald him this. Galloway vindicated his throat. The masonic gain has everlastingly kept her secret . . . sincerely.I dont understand.The old man winked. honest tell Peter that. He will understand.With that, dean Galloway bowlegged his head and began praying.Perplexed, Langdon left over(p) him there and hurried outside. Katherine was already in the front seat of the SUV bountiful the agent directions. Langdon climbed in back and had barely unopen the door be fore the ogre vehicle was rocketing across the lawn, rush nitrogen to Kalorama Heights.