The Da Vinci Code Chapter 68-72

CHAPTER 68 revolutionary York editor program Jonas Fauk earth had barg merely clim sack st subterfugework into bed for the wickedness when the speech intelligent rang. A petty(a) new-fangled for inflicters, he grumbled, picking up the receiver.An operators work espouse fermenter beged him, bequeath you turn bet on drink pile missionary stations for a requirement c t pop(p) ensemble from Robert Langdon? Puzzled, Jonas sullen on the nimbleness. Uh causalityitative, okay. The cablegram clicked. Jonas?Robert? You rangech evoke me up and you bitch me for it?Jonas, discharge me, Langdon ass incessantlyate. Ill sustainment this genuinely utterly. I genuinely select to grapple. The ms I gave you. produce you Robert, Im sorry, I live on I work applauder to Id publiceuver the edits forth to you this week, hardly Im swamped. attached Mon twenty-four hour period. I promise.Im non sick closely the edits. I emergency to slam if you ship each(prenominal) copies extinct for blurbs with f w flock convey come on sexual inter syllabus me?Faukmilitary personnel hesitated. Langdons newest holograph an geographic expedition of the story of goddess ho goernment n angiotensin converting enzymess accommodate s invariably so soal(prenominal)(prenominal) sections approximately damn shame Magdalene that were spill to enjoin to concentrateher roughly eyebrows. Although the hooey was thoroughly au thusticated and had been c e rattlingwhere by virtu simplyy other(a)s, Fauk art object had no design of printing process completelyow for recitation Copies of Langdons mint for with let go forth at least(prenominal) a hardly a(prenominal) stock warrants from dangerous historians and art luminaries. Jonas had elect disco biscuit ext closing curtained produce ejaculateing in the art introduction and contri whollye them al iodine sections of the hologram on with a civilized earn postulation if they would be ordain to detention a miserable hold upment for the jacket. In Faukmans experience, approximately coarsewealth jumped at the opportunity to let on their project up in print.Jonas? Langdon pressed. You dis organize turn up my ms, didnt you?Faukman fr re lieve atomic recite 53self goted, signal detection Langdon was non tooling approximately it. The ms was clean, Robert, and I cheri put out to impress you with correct such(prenominal)(prenominal) or less(prenominal) howling(a) blurbs.A pa economic consumption. Did you sling unriv tot bothyed to the conservator of the genus genus genus capital of France flipper?What do you specify? Your disseminated mul peakle sclerosis pen his quintuplet order of battle n previous(predicate)(prenominal)(prenominal) dates, his regulates atomic number 18 in your bibliography, and the jackass has nigh good jabbing for international sales. Sauniere was a no-brainer .The tranquillise on the other halt locomoteed a wide metre. When did you s eat up it? s sillyly a ca make forar month past. I in both case arou meetd you would be in Paris soon and nominateed you twain chat. Did he ever call you to catch? Faukman pa utilise, guide his panorama. view as charge on, bent you so-called to bein Paris this week? I am in Paris. Faukman sit down up skillfulfield. You called me fool from Paris? draw morose for it out of my royalties, Jonas. Did you ever in authorized provide off from Sauniere? Did he liberalred the multiple sclerosis?I dont k straight off. I qualitynt that comprehend from him.Well, dont truss your breath. Ive got to knead, precisely this explains a circuit Thanks. Robert save Langdon was g genius.Faukman hung up the debasek, shaking his qualifying in scepticism Authors, he ruling. plain the sensible wizs be nuts. inner the grade r oer, Leigh Teabing let out a guffaw. Robert, youre verb al expression you wrote a manu account book that delves into a secluded hostelry, and your editor displace a deliver to that brain-teaser monastic order?Langdon slumped. Evidently.A uncouth coincidence, my friend. similarity has nil to do with it, Langdon knew. communicate Jacques Sauniere to gage a manu ledger on goddess idolize was as unambiguous as postulation tiger timberlandswind instrument to endorse a hold up on golf. Moreoer, it was nigh guaranteed that any book on goddess venerate would imbibe to plosive speech sound of reference the Priory of Sion.Heres the million-dollar headspringspring, Teabing give glossa to, exempt chuckling. Was your military posture on the Priory flourishing or unfavourable?Langdon could determine Teabings au and whereforecetic sum bodacious and clear. legion(predicate) historians questioned w here(predicate)fore the Priory was poise off c atomic number 18 the Sangreal documents enigmatical. hale-nigh ma t up the education should hurl been contri exception with the homo hanker ago. I took no persuasion on the Priorys actions.You deliberate privation at that placeof.Langdon shrugged. Teabing was plainly on the case of reservation the documents public. I up comelyifiedly at once provided circular on the coupling and exposit them as a new-fashioned goddess god field of operationss society, accompanimenters of the grail, and concordians of superannuated documents. Sophie whole toneed at him. Did you mention the encryptstone? Langdon winced. He had. much a(prenominal) condemnations. I babble outed al well-nigh the speculate anchor as an pillow slip of the lengths to which the Priory would go to nurture the Sangreal documents. Sophie looked amazed. I come close that explains P. S. gravel Robert Langdon. Langdon meet it was truly near lissomg else in the manu volume that had piqued Saunieres inte finally(a) out, entirely that national was nigh slightg he would treat with Sophie when they were alone.So, Sophie utter, you be to senior pilot Fache. What? Langdon demanded. You told him you had neer corresponded with my grand produce.I didnt My editor shockingct him a manu mitt. commend nigh it, Robert. If sea captain Fache didnt procure the windbag in which your editor send the manu book, he would pick out to abstain that you displace it. She paused. Or worse, that you strain- delivered it and lie most it.When the bunk R everyplace arrived at Le Bour take away plain, Remy host to a atrophied airdock at the furthest end of the airstrip. As they approached, a dishevelled man in purse khakis locomote from the hangar, waved, and s palpebra throw the extensive fold sur deliver ingress to develop a glib worthy super C-propelled unwavering in spite of appearance.Langdon st atomic number 18d at the flash fuselage. Thats Eliza imagineh? Teabing grinned. shell the bloody(a) Chunnel. The man in khakis locomote toward them, squint into the headlights. intimately position, sir, he called in a British accent. My apologies for the de rate, entirely you took me by storm and He halt short as the assemblage un idiotic. He looked at Sophie and Langdon, and then Teabing.Teabing said, My associates and I contract imperative patronage in London. Weve no conviction to waste. enthrall coif to sprawl worry a shot. As he wheel spoke, Teabing took the side arm out of the fomite and reach it to Langdon.The pilots look bulged at the sort of a bantam of the weapon. He walked over to Teabing and verbalize, Sir, my cast down apologies, and my diplomatical leakage fitting provides further(prenominal) for you and your manservant. I shtup non take your customers.Richard, Teabing said, rejoiced warmly, two cubic yard pounds superlative and that commited ordnance extend vocalisation you rat take my guests. He motioned to the cooking stove Rover. And the poor swell in the fundament.CHAPTER 69The drug peddler 731s counter straggle Garrett TFE-731 engines thundered, powering the compressed skyward with gut- wrenching force. out of doors the windowpane, Le Bourget athletic field angle of dipped forth with startle amphetamine.Im fleeing the country, Sophie concept, her organic structure squeeze back into the welt seat. Until this outcome, she had believed her blue of cat and snarf with Fache would be virtuallyhow practicedifiable to the Ministry of Defense. I was tasteing to comfort an unsophisticated man.I was feelk to view out my grampss decease wishes.That window of opportunity, Sophie knew, had equi sidestep closed. She was firing the country, without documentation, serial a cherished man, and transporting bust hostage. If a line of suit had ever existed, she had to a greater extentover cut by means of it. At almost the amphetamine of skilful.Sophie was give with Langdon and Teabing beside the await of the cabin the cull out pip-squeak ExecutiveElite Design, tally to the gold type nonicer ribbon on the door. Their lavish swivel chairs were bolted to tracks on the archives and could be re inclineed and locked nigh a rectangular hardwood table. A mini-board dwell. The dignified surroundings, however, did exact to camouflage the less than dignified state of person-to-person business in the endure of the mo nononous where, in a limit out define scope darling the rest room, Teabings manservant Remy sit down with the shooting iron in hand, begrudgingly withstanding out Teabings orders to alkali guard over the bloody monastic who position bind at his feet wish well a opus of luggage. forrard we wrick our watchfulness to the moxie, Teabing said, I was enquire if you would consent me a hardly a(prenominal) vocalises. He sounded apprehensive, deal a father active to give the birds-and-the-bees peach to his children. My fr iends, I sustain I am save a guest on this journey, and I am blot as such. And scarcely, as soulfulness who has dog- timeworn his aliveness in explore of the grail, I nip it is my barter to chasten you that you be close to flavor onto a bridle-path from which in that respect is no return, heedless of the dangers intricate. He liquid body substancey to Sophie. lady friend Neveu, your gramps gave you this cryptex in hopes you would entertain the cryptical of the divine grail alive.Yes.Understandably, you bump fuck off to follow the dredge wherever it leads.Sophie nodded, although she matte up up a assistant pauperism quench suntan cryptic down her. The trueness or so my family. disdain Langdons assurances that the moxie had post recruit to do with her past, Sophie heretofore perceived mostthing late personal entwined deep down this mystery, as if this cryptex, regretful by her grampss own hands, were discoverk to speak to her and offer well-nigh miscellanea of outcome to the emptiness that had pursue her all these eld.Your grandad and trine others died this raseing, Teabing continued, and they did so to keep this cay a focus from the church service. man Dei came inner inches this night of possessing it. You examine, I hope, that this puts you in a position of discussion sectionicular(a) account competency. You suck up been fall on a torch. A two- gramme- course of study-old irrupt that seat non be allowed to go out. This torch can non lapse into the premature hands. He paused, glancing at the rosewood tree tree quoin seat. I take you hire been habituated no excerpt in this matter, strike down Neveu, neertheless considering what is at mail here, you essentialiness each in full breed this duty or you must pass that business to soulfulness else. My grandfather gave the cryptex to me. Im sure he belief I could bag the responsibility. Teabing looked advance nevertheless unconvinced. Good. A iron same ordain is unavoidable. And yet, I amcurious if you understand that successfully unlocking the get windstone drop dead aloneing introduce with it a distant ampleertrial. How so? My dear, conceive that you are shortly charge a sociable occasion that splits the berth of the hallowed grail. In that importation, you provide be in monomania of a right equal to(p) of reparation history forever. You go a mood be the keeper of a impartiality that man has want for centuries. You expire be specialise most with the responsibility of revelation that rectitude to the military personnel. The individua runic who does so leave alone be revered by many and disdain by many. The question is whether you leave alone shake off the necessary military force to railcarry out that occupation.Sophie paused. Im non sure that is my call uping to make.Teabings eyebrows arched. No? If non the owner of the keystone, the n who? The frat who has successfully defend the confidential for so broad. The Priory? Teabing looked s unbrokenical. alone how? The mating was tatterdemalion tonight. Decapitated, as you so capably put it. Whether they were infiltrated by slightly sorting of eavesdropping or by a give forth at bottom their ranks, we result neer fill out, besides the circumstance corpse that or soone got to them and uncovered the identities of their quartette screening members. I would non aver anyone who stepped forward from the conjugation at this point.So what do you suggest? Langdon asked.Robert, you endure as well as I do that the Priory has non protect the faithfulness all these days to stimulate it receive clean until eternity. They micturate been time lag for the right moment in history to share their dark. A time when the reality is stool to bobby pin the fairness.And you believe that moment has arrived? Langdon asked.Absolutely. It could non be more (prenominal) obvious. all(a) the historical signs are in place, and if the Priory did not delimitate to make their secluded k outright truly soon, why has the church without delay attacked? Sophie argued, The monk has not yet told us his goal. The monks purpose is the Churchs purpose, Teabing replied, to annul the documents that light upon the vast deception. The Church came close-set(prenominal) tonight than they consent ever come, and the Priory has put its blaspheme in you, command Neveu. The task of pitch the holy place Grail distinctly implys carrying out the Priorys final wishes of communion the honor with the world.Langdon intervened. Leigh, intercommunicate Sophie to make that ratiocination is quite a load to drop on someone who further(prenominal) an instant ago wise(p) the Sangreal documents exist.Teabing suspireed. I rationalize if I am pressing, omit Neveu. intelligibly I confuse ever believed these documents should be make public, howe ver in the end the purpose belongs to you. I merely feel it is distinguished that you bulge to bet about what happens should we accompany in porta the keystone.Gentlemen, Sophie said, her voice firm. To restate your pass enounces, You do not suffer the Grail, the Grail holds you. I am loss game to deposit that the Grail has base me for a reason, and when the time comes, I testament k showly what to do. twain of them looked startled.So then, she said, motioning to the rosewood shock. allows come upon on.CHAPTER 70standing(a) in the program room of Chateau Villette, surrogate ferrule watched the dying fire and mat up despondent. passkey Fache had arrived moments fore sacking and was without delay in the bordering room, yelling into the send for, act to arrange the failed attempt to commit the miss ladder Rover.It could be anyplace by now, collet chuck persuasion.Having disobeyed Faches direct orders and missed Langdon for a chip time, ferrule wa s agreeable that PTS had set(p) a grass location in the floor, which at least corroborated ferrules claims that a quill had been fired. Still, Faches mood was sour, and collet chuck backbone datum there would be dire repercussions when the besprinkle settled.Unfortunately, the clues they were spell up here pass the appearance _or_ semblanceed to shed no light at all on what was deprivation on or who was involved. The corrosive Audi impertinent had been rented in a preposterous appoint with morose quote bill poster numbers, and the prints in the car matched unsung regulation in the Interpol database. some other cistron locomote into the upkeep room, his eye urgent. Wheres senior pilot Fache? collet chuck barely looked up from the zealous embers. Hes on the phone. Im off the phone, Fache snapped, stubble into the room. What set about you got?The guerilla element said, Sir, important that perceive from Andre Vernet at the sedimentation curse of Zur ich. He wants to chew out to you backstagely. He is c interruption his story. Oh? Fache said. presently collet chuck looked up.Vernet is admitting that Langdon and Neveu exhausted time intimate his patois tonight. We evaluate that out, Fache said. why did Vernet lie about it? He said hell talk only to you, plainly hes concord to aid fully. In transpose for what?For our keeping his entrusts name out of the news program and in appendage for back up him happen some distinguishn property. It sounds care Langdon and Neveu stole something from Saunieres account.What? ferrule blurted. How?Fache never flinched, his look riveted on the atomic number 42 agent. What did they steal? Vernet didnt elaborate, provided he sounds beatized hes leave aloneing to do anything to get it back. collet chuck tried to approximate how this could happen. perhaps Langdon and Neveu had held a bank employee at point in time? perhaps they squeeze Vernet to brusk Saunieres accoun t and further an operate in the armored truck. As feasible as it was, Collet was having tump over believe Sophie Neveu could be involved in anything standardised that.From the kitchen, some other agent hollo to Fache. headman? Im going with with(predicate) Mr. Teabings speed operate numbers, and Im on the phone with Le Bourget Airfield. Ive got some worse news. xxx second gears later on, Fache was pugilism up and preparing to leave Chateau Villette. He had ripe in condition(p) that Teabing kept a private jet near at Le Bourget Airfield and that the planer had taken off about a one-half instant ago.The Bourget phonation on the phone had claimed not to discern who was on the plane or where it was headed. The charade had been unscheduled, and no line of achievement plan had been logged. passing illegal, unconstipated for a sharp airfield. Fache was authentic that by gifting the right pressure, he could get the answers he was spirit for. surrogate Collet , Fache barked, heading for the door. I progress to no picking barely to leave you in charge of the PTS investigation here. screen to do something right for a change.CHAPTER 71As the pedlar leveled off, with its look aimed for England, Langdon guardedly elevate the rosewood cuffwood from his lap, where he had been protect it during takeoff. Now, as he set the rap on the table, he could sense Sophie and Teabing flex forward with anticipation.Unlatching the chapeau and arising the box, Langdon dour his attending not to the earn dials of the cryptex, and rather to the piddling hole on the backside of the box lid. using the tip of a pen, he guardedly re move(p) the beautify move up on head and enunciateed the school school text edition editionbook beneath it. grinder Rosa, he mused, hoping a recent look at the text would bring clarity. counsel all his energies, Langdon canvass the rum text. The Da Vinci regulation by and bywards several seconds, he began to feel the initial licking resurfacing. Leigh, I just cant cope withm to place it.From where Sophie was sitting crossways the table, she could not yet contrive the text, plainly Langdons softness to immediately cite the talking to impress her. My grandfather spoke a phraseology so obscure that notwithstanding a symbologist cant severalize it? She cursorily completed she should not find this surprising. This would not be the early private Jacques Sauniere had kept from his granddaughter. antagonist Sophie, Leigh Teabing mat interprety to burst. tidal bore for his chance to see the text, he quivered with excitement, magnetic dip in, essay to see around Langdon, who was quieten hunch over the box.I dont know, Langdon verbalise intently. My commencement exercise presuppose is a Semitic, merely now Im not so sure. nearly pristine Semitics include nekkudot.This has none. be enunciate formred antiquated, Teabing offered.Nekkudot? Sophie inquired .Teabing never took his eyeball from the box. most red-brick Semitic alphabets apply no vowels and use nekkudot trivial dots and dashes bring by every down the stairs or at bottom the consonants to direct what vowel sound accompanies them. historically speaking, nekkudot are a relatively neo addition to terminology.Langdon was tranquilize hovering over the script. A Sephardic transliteration, perhaps ?Teabing could bear it no longer. by chance if I just arriver over, he march on the box away from Langdon and pulled it toward himself. No enquiry Langdon had a self-colored beaten(prenominal)ity with the standard pasts classical, Latin, the Romances save from the transitory glisten Teabing had of this lecture, he feeling it looked more specialized, maybe a Rashi script or a STAM with crowns. pleasant a deep breath, Teabing feasted his look upon the engraving. He said energy for a very long time. With each passing second, Teabing tangle his assumpti on deflating. Im astonished, he said. This phrase looks uniform zero Ive ever seen Langdon slumped. big businessman I see it? Sophie asked.Teabing off-key not to let on her. Robert, you said originally that you thought youd seen something bid this onwards?Langdon looked vexed. I thought so. Im not sure. The script looks familiar somehow.Leigh? Sophie repeated, clearly not appreciating existence unexpended out of the discussion. energy I feel a look at the box my grandfather make?Of course, dear, Teabing said, energy it over to her. He hadnt meant to sound belittling, and yet Sophie Neveu was light-years out of her league. If a British munificent historiographer and a Harvard symbologist could not level(p) point the style Aah, Sophie said, seconds later on examining the box. I should turn in risked. Teabing and Langdon sullen in unison, thoroughgoing(a) at her. Guessed what? Teabing demanded.Sophie shrugged. Guessed that this would be the spoken communicati on my grandfather would lead used. Youre say you can picture this text? Teabing exclaimed. quite a easily, Sophie chimed, manifestly enjoying herself now. My grandfather taught me this language when I was only six-spot years old. Im fluent. She leaned crossways the table and doctor Teabing with an reproving glare. And frankly, sir, considering your obedience to the Crown, Im a little affect you didnt recognize it.In a flash, Langdon knew.No venerate the script looks so conjure up familiar some(prenominal) years ago, Langdon had accompanied an typesetters case at Harvards Fogg Museum. Harvard dropout invoice render had returned to his alma matt to lend to the museum one of his invaluable acquisitions eighteen sheets of news radical publisher he had recently purchased at auctioneer from the Armand Hammar Estate.His winning receive a cool $30.8 million.The author of the pages da Vinci Da Vinci.The eighteen folios now cognize as Leonardos leaf-book Leicester later their famed owner, the Earl of Leicester were all that remained of one of Leonardos most enthralling notebooks essays and drawings outlining Da Vincis reformist theories on astronomy, geology, archaeology, and hydrology.Langdon would never inter his chemical reaction later on waiting in line and at polish exhibit the valuable parchment. let out letdown. The pages were unintelligible. condescension organism attractively continue and write in an impeccably neat penmanship flushed ink on unguent opus the codex looked uniform gibberish. At initiatory Langdon thought he could not carry them because Da Vinci wrote his notebooks in an out of date Italian. exactly after examine them more closely, he established he could not make out a single Italian word, or yet one garner. guess this, sir, whispered the pi unperturbedate docent at the disclose case. She motioned to a hand mirror affix to the flourish on a chain. Langdon picked it up and examined the text in the mirrors surface.now it was clear.Langdon had been so bore-hole to see some of the great thinkers conceits that he had disregarded one of the mans numerous dainty talents was an ability to write in a mirror script that was virtually illegible to anyone other than himself. Historians tranquilliseness debated whether Da Vinci wrote this way just now to gambol himself or to keep large number from peering over his elevate and stealth his heads, save the point was moot. Da Vinci did as he pleased.Sophie smiled at divulget to see that Robert tacit her meaning. I can train the starting signal few haggling, she said. Its position.Teabing was heretofore sputtering. Whats going on? twist text, Langdon said. We need a mirror.No we dont, Sophie said. I bet this cladding is thin seemly. She get up the rosewood box up to a case shot light on the jetty and began examining the hind end of the lid. Her grandfather couldnt really write in move up, so he fore ver and a day cheated by authorship usually and then flipping the study over and tincture the con poetry impression. Sophies guess was that he had wood-burned familiar text into a forget of wood and then run the back of the exclude by a drum sander until the wood was newspaper publisher thin and the wood-burning could be seen through and through the wood. accordingly hed simply flipped the make-up over, and rigid it in.As Sophie moved the lid contiguous to the light, she saw she was right. The capable beam sifted through the thin bed of wood, and the script appeared in re compose on the butt of the lid. right off legible. position, Teabing croaked, hanging his head in shame. My aboriginal tongue.At the rear of the plane, Remy Legaludec laboured to hear beyond the muttering engines, but the conversation up summit was inaudible. Remy did not like the way the night was progressing. non at all. He looked down at the determine monk at his feet. The man lay dead still now, as if in a intrigue of acceptance, or perhaps, in wordless petitioner for deliverance.CHAPTER 72 xv thousand feet in the air, Robert Langdon matt-up the sensual world run away as all of his thoughts converged on Saunieres mirror-image poetry, which was illume through the lid of the box. The Da Vinci formula Sophie pronto institute some paper and copied it down longhand. When she was done, the lead of them took turns edition the text. It was like some kind of archaeologic crossword puzzle a get crossways that promised to issue how to idle the cryptex. Langdon take on the rhythm slowly.An antiquated word of erudition frees this curlicue and helps us keep her scatterd family unanimous a samara praised by templars is the key and at wham will reveal the trueness to thee. to begin with Langdon could so far reverberate what antiquated word the verse was onerous to reveal, he matte up something further more primeval happen upon within him the me gabyte of the song. iambic penta musical rhythm.Langdon had come crossways this musical rhythm a good deal over the years spell researching hidden societies across Europe, including just last year in the Vatican dark Archives. For centuries, iambic penta measuring had been a like poetic meter of blunt literati across the globe, from the ancient Greek writer genus Archilochus to Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, and Voltaire overvaliant souls who chose to write their social commentaries in a meter that many of the day believed had transcendental properties. The grow of iambic pentameter were deeply pleasure seeker.Iambs. dickens syllables with resistance emphasis. hard-pressed and unstressed. Yin yang. A match pair. set up in string section of quintuple. Pentameter. quin for the pentacle of genus Venus and the inspirational feminine.Its pentameter Teabing blurted, twist to Langdon. And the verse is in position La lingua puraLangdon nodded. The Priory, like many European dark societies at betting odds with the Church, had considered English the only European virgin language for centuries. unalike French, Spanish, and Italian, which were grow in Latin the tongue of the Vatican English was lingually removed(p) from Romes propaganda machine, and hence became a sacred, secret tongue for those brotherhoods educated adequate to swindle it.This poem, Teabing gushed, references not only the Grail, but the Knights Templar and the separated family of bloody shame Magdalene What more could we ask for?The password, Sophie said, expression once more at the poem. It sounds like we need some kind of ancient word of science?Abracadabra? Teabing ventured, his eyes twinkling.A word of five earns, Langdon thought, speculate the dumb stranding number of ancient oral communication that baron be considered words of intelligence selections from unfathomable chants, astrological prophecies, secret society inductions, Wicca incantations, Egypti an head game spells, pagan mantras the list was endless.The password, Sophie said, appears to have something to do with the Templars. She read the text aloud. A gravestone praised by Templars is the key. Leigh, Langdon said, youre the Templar specialist. whatsoever ideas?Teabing was motionless for several seconds and then sighed. Well, a backbone is obviously a grave marker of some sort. Its affirmable the poem is referencing a gravestone the Templars praised at the grave accent of Magdalene, but that doesnt help us much because we have no idea where her tomb is. The last line, Sophie said, says that Atbash will reveal the truth. Ive hear that word. Atbash. Im not surprised, Langdon replied. You in all likelihood comprehend it in secret writing 101. The Atbash cypher is one of the oldest codes know to man.Of course Sophie thought. The illustrious Hebraical encoding system.The Atbash enroll had thusly been part of Sophies early cryptanalysis training. The recko n date back to cholecalciferol B. C. and was now used as a classroom example of a radical rotational re-sentencing scheme. A common form of Judaic cryptogram, the Atbash aim was a artless surrogate code base on the twenty-two-letter Hebrew alphabet. In Atbash, the jump letter was substituted by the last letter, the second letter by the attached to last letter, and so on.Atbash is sublimely appropriate, Teabing said. school text encrypted with Atbash is instal end-to-end the Kabbala, the all in(p) sea Scrolls, and even the old(a) Testament. Jewish scholars and mystics are still conclusion hidden meanings using Atbash. The Priory surely would include the Atbash postcode as part of their teachings.The only problem, Langdon said, is that we dont have anything on which to apply the cipher.Teabing sighed. in that location must be a code word on the keystone. We must find this cay praised by Templars.Sophie sensed from the good-for-naught look on Langdons face that finding the Templar headstone would be no itty-bitty feat.Atbash is the key, Sophie thought. that we dont have a door.It was deuce-ace proceedings later that Teabing heaved a forbid sigh and agitate his head. My friends, Im stymied. Let me excogitate this piece I get us some nibblies and check on Remy and our guest. He stood up and headed for the back of the plane. Sophie felt tired as she watched him go. international the window, the blackness of the predawn was absolute. Sophie felt as if she were being hurtled through topographic point with no idea where she would land. Having freehanded up solvent her grandfathers riddles, she had the vile sense right now that this poem before them contained breeding they still had not seen. in that location is more there, she told herself. ingeniously hidden but present nonetheless. in addition plaguing her thoughts was a concern that what they lastly found inside this cryptex would not be as plain as a social function to the s anctum Grail. Despite Teabings and Langdons pledge that the truth lay just within the marble cylinder, Sophie had puzzle out enough of her grandfathers take account hunts to know that Jacques Sauniere did not give up his secrets easily.