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达芬奇密码|The Da Vinci Code

第35章|Chapter 34

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圣拉查尔火车站和其他的欧洲火车站没有什么两样，一个装着大门的洞里散布着犯罪嫌疑人--无家可归者举着硬纸板，枕在背包上的睡眼朦胧的学生听着MP3，还有一群群身穿蓝色制服的行李搬运工在抽烟。

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索菲抬头看了看那块巨大的列车时刻牌。那白底黑字的表单一直在刷新。当最新的信息显示在表单上的时候，兰登举目搜寻可供选择的车次。表单的最上方写着：利立--特快--3：06"我希望它可以早点儿开。"索菲说。"但那是到利立的最早一班车了。"

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早点儿开？兰登看了看表--2：59A.M.还有七分钟车就要开了，可他们还没有买票。

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索菲把兰登带到购票窗口前，说道。"用你的信用卡买两张票。"

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"我想使用信用卡会为警察的追捕提供线索--"

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"一点儿不错。"

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兰登已决定不在索菲。奈芙面前显示聪明了。他用Visa 卡买了两张去利立的车票交给索菲。

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索菲将兰登领向站台。站台上响起了熟悉的报时声，闭路广播中播报着开往利立的特快即将发车的消息。他们眼前横着十六条铁轨。在远处右边的三号站台旁，开往利立的特快正喷着蒸汽，准备出发。但是，索菲却挎着兰登的胳膊，领着他往相反的方向走。他们匆匆地穿过一条边廊，经过一个通宵营业的餐厅，最后从边门出站，来到了车站西侧一条僻静的街道上。

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一辆出租车在门口等候着。

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司机看见索菲，打亮了车灯。

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索菲跳上车的后排座位，兰登也随后钻进车内。

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出租车离开了车站，索菲拿出新买的车票，把它们撕得粉碎。

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兰登感叹道，七十美元花得真是地方。

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出租车开始在克里希街上平稳而单调地行驶，兰登这才感觉他们真正逃脱了追捕。透过右边的车窗，他可以看见蒙马特高地和圣心堂美丽的圆形屋顶。忽闪着的警灯打破这美丽的画卷，几辆警车正朝着相反方向驶去。

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索菲和兰登低下身，直到警报声渐渐消失。

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索菲只告诉司机把他们送出城。兰登见她抿着嘴，知道她正在考虑下一步行动。

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兰登将那把十字形的钥匙举到窗边，再次端详，试图找到产地的标记。路灯向车内投来忽闪忽闪的光亮，除了那隐修会的标志，兰登什么也没有发现。

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"这不合常理。"最后，他说道。

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"为什么？"

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"你祖父想方设法地把钥匙留给你，而你却不知道这把钥匙的用途。"

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"是呀。"

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"你肯定他没有在画背后留下其他什么信息？"

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"我查看过了，就发现了这个。这把钥匙是嵌在画框上的。我看见了上面的图案，把它放进了口袋，然后我们就离开了那间展厅。"兰登皱着眉头，端详着三角形的钥匙尖。他又斜着眼睛打量了一下钥匙柄的边缘。还是没有发现什么。"我想这把钥匙最近被清洗过。"

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"为什么？"

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"它闻上去像被酒精擦拭过。"

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索菲扭过头："对不起，你说什么？"

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"它闻上去像被用清洁剂擦洗过。"兰登把钥匙放到鼻子前面嗅了嗅。"另外一面味道更浓。"他把钥匙翻转过来。"是的，有股酒精的味道，就像被用清洁剂擦洗过或者--"兰登愣了一下。

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"或者什么？"

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兰登在灯光下转动着钥匙，端详着十字形较宽的那条边。那上面有些闪亮的地方……

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就像被弄湿了一样。"你在把它放入口袋前仔细看过朝匙的背面吗？"

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"什么？没有仔细看。太匆忙了。"

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兰登把头转向索菲："你还带着紫外线灯吗？"

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索菲将手伸进口袋，掏出了紫外线灯。兰登接过灯，打开开关，照了照钥匙背面十字形较宽的那条边。

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在紫外线灯的照射下，钥匙背面立即显现出了文字。那文字匆匆写就，但仍可以辨认。

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豪克斯街24 号地址！祖父留下了一个地址！

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"是什么地方？"兰登问。

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索菲也不知道。她转向司机，身体前倾，兴奋地问："您知道豪克斯街吗？"

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司机想了想，点点头。他告诉索菲那条街位于巴黎西郊网球馆附近。索菲让他立即开到那里去。

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"要走最快的路，就得穿过布劳涅森林。"司机用法语问道。"行吗？"

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索菲皱了皱眉头。她可以想到其他走法来取代那条讨厌的路线，但今晚她不想很挑剔。

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"好的。"我们可以让这位美国的来访者大吃一惊。

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她又看了看那把钥匙，猜想着他们会在豪克斯街24 号发现些什么。一个教堂？隐修会的总部？

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她又回想起十年前自己在地下洞室目睹的那个秘密仪式，长长地叹了口气。"罗伯特，我有很多事要告诉你。"她顿了顿，看着兰登。这时出租车开始向西行驶。"但首先，请把你对郇山隐修会的了解全部告诉我。"

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The driver who collected Bishop Aringarosa from Leonardo da Vinci International Airport pulledup in a small, unimpressive black Fiat sedan. Aringarosa recalled a day when all Vatican transportswere big luxury cars that sported grille-plate medallions and flags emblazoned with the seal of theHoly See. Those days are gone. Vatican cars were now less ostentatious and almost alwaysunmarked. The Vatican claimed this was to cut costs to better serve their dioceses, but Aringarosasuspected it was more of a security measure. The world had gone mad, and in many parts ofEurope, advertising your love of Jesus Christ was like painting a bull’s-eye on the roof of your car.

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Bundling his black cassock around himself, Aringarosa climbed into the back seat and settled in forthe long drive to Castel Gandolfo. It would be the same ride he had taken five months ago.

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Last year’s trip to Rome, he sighed. The longest night of my life.

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Five months ago, the Vatican had phoned to request Aringarosa’s immediate presence in Rome.

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They offered no explanation. Your tickets are at the airport. The Holy See worked hard to retain aveil of mystery, even for its highest clergy.

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The mysterious summons, Aringarosa suspected, was probably a photo opportunity for the Popeand other Vatican officials to piggyback on Opus Dei’s recent public success—the completion oftheir World Headquarters in New York City. Architectural Digest had called Opus Dei’s building"a shining beacon of Catholicism sublimely integrated with the modern landscape," and lately theVatican seemed to be drawn to anything and everything that included the word "modern."Aringarosa had no choice but to accept the invitation, albeit reluctantly. Not a fan of the currentpapal administration, Aringarosa, like most conservative clergy, had watched with grave concernas the new Pope settled into his first year in office. An unprecedented liberal, His Holiness hadsecured the papacy through one of the most controversial and unusual conclaves in Vatican history.

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Now, rather than being humbled by his unexpected rise to power, the Holy Father had wasted notime flexing all the muscle associated with the highest office in Christendom. Drawing on anunsettling tide of liberal support within the College of Cardinals, the Pope was now declaring hispapal mission to be "rejuvenation of Vatican doctrine and updating Catholicism into the thirdmillennium."The translation, Aringarosa feared, was that the man was actually arrogant enough to think hecould rewrite God’s laws and win back the hearts of those who felt the demands of true Catholicismhad become too inconvenient in a modern world.

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Aringarosa had been using all of his political sway—substantial considering the size of the OpusDei constituency and their bankroll—to persuade the Pope and his advisers that softening theChurch’s laws was not only faithless and cowardly, but political suicide. He reminded them thatprevious tempering of Church law—the Vatican II fiasco—had left a devastating legacy: Churchattendance was now lower than ever, donations were drying up, and there were not even enoughCatholic priests to preside over their churches.

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People need structure and direction from the Church, Aringarosa insisted, not coddling andindulgence!

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On that night, months ago, as the Fiat had left the airport, Aringarosa was surprised to find himselfheading not toward Vatican City but rather eastward up a sinuous mountain road. "Where are wegoing?" he had demanded of his driver.

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"Alban Hills," the man replied. "Your meeting is at Castel Gandolfo."The Pope’s summer residence? Aringarosa had never been, nor had he ever desired to see it. Inaddition to being the Pope’s summer vacation home, the sixteenth-century citadel housed theSpecula Vaticana—the Vatican Observatory—one of the most advanced astronomicalobservatories in Europe. Aringarosa had never been comfortable with the Vatican’s historical needto dabble in science. What was the rationale for fusing science and faith? Unbiased science couldnot possibly be performed by a man who possessed faith in God. Nor did faith have any need forphysical confirmation of its beliefs.

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Nonetheless, there it is, he thought as Castel Gandolfo came into view, rising against a star-filledNovember sky. From the access road, Gandolfo resembled a great stone monster pondering asuicidal leap. Perched at the very edge of a cliff, the castle leaned out over the cradle of Italiancivilization—the valley where the Curiazi and Orazi clans fought long before the founding ofRome.

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Even in silhouette, Gandolfo was a sight to behold—an impressive example of tiered, defensivearchitecture, echoing the potency of this dramatic cliffside setting. Sadly, Aringarosa now saw, theVatican had ruined the building by constructing two huge aluminum telescope domes atop the roof,leaving this once dignified edifice looking like a proud warrior wearing a couple of party hats.

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When Aringarosa got out of the car, a young Jesuit priest hurried out and greeted him. "Bishop,welcome. I am Father Mangano. An astronomer here."Good for you. Aringarosa grumbled his hello and followed his host into the castle’s foyer—a wide-open space whose decor was a graceless blend of Renaissance art and astronomy images.

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Following his escort up the wide travertine marble staircase, Aringarosa saw signs for conferencecenters, science lecture halls, and tourist information services. It amazed him to think the Vaticanwas failing at every turn to provide coherent, stringent guidelines for spiritual growth and yetsomehow still found time to give astrophysics lectures to tourists.

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"Tell me," Aringarosa said to the young priest, "when did the tail start wagging the dog?"The priest gave him an odd look. "Sir?"Aringarosa waved it off, deciding not to launch into that particular offensive again this evening.

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The Vatican has gone mad. Like a lazy parent who found it easier to acquiesce to the whims of aspoiled child than to stand firm and teach values, the Church just kept softening at every turn,trying to reinvent itself to accommodate a culture gone astray.

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The top floor’s corridor was wide, lushly appointed, and led in only one direction—toward a hugeset of oak doors with a brass sign.

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BIBLIOTECA ASTRONOMICAAringarosa had heard of this place—the Vatican’s Astronomy Library—rumored to contain morethan twenty-five thousand volumes, including rare works of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton,and Secchi. Allegedly, it was also the place in which the Pope’s highest officers held privatemeetings... those meetings they preferred not to hold within the walls of Vatican City.

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Approaching the door, Bishop Aringarosa would never have imagined the shocking news he wasabout to receive inside, or the deadly chain of events it would put into motion. It was not until anhour later, as he staggered from the meeting, that the devastating implications settled in. Six monthsfrom now! he had thought. God help us!

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Now, seated in the Fiat, Bishop Aringarosa realized his fists were clenched just thinking about thatfirst meeting. He released his grip and forced a slow inhalation, relaxing his muscles.

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Everything will be fine, he told himself as the Fiat wound higher into the mountains. Still, hewished his cell phone would ring. Why hasn’t the Teacher called me? Silas should have thekeystone by now.

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Trying to ease his nerves, the bishop meditated on the purple amethyst in his ring. Feeling thetextures of the mitre-crozier appliqué and the facets of the diamonds, he reminded himself that thisring was a symbol of power far less than that which he would soon attain.

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