Chapter 51 Chapter Forty-Six

after evening prayer William almost accidentally discovered the secret of entering "End of Africa" Like a pair of assassins, we lurked behind a pillar near the entrance, from which we could see the annex chapel with the skull. "Abbo has gone into the cathedral," said William. "After he has closed all the doors from the inside, he can only come out of the ossuary." "and then?" "And then we'll see what the hell he's up to." We were not aware of his movements, and an hour passed and he still hadn't appeared.I said, he went to the "End of Africa".William replied, maybe.Eager to put forward more hypotheses, I added that perhaps he had come out of the dining room again and gone to find George.William replied that it was possible.I further imagined that perhaps George was dead, or that he was in the cathedral, about to kill the Dean.Maybe both of them were somewhere else, and the other was lying in wait for them.What do those "Italians" want?Why is Benno so scared?Why was he lingering in the office at vespers, if he didn't know how to lock the door or how to get out?Does he want to test the passage of the maze?

"It's all possible," William said, "but only one thing is happening, or has happened, or will happen. At least God has given us a certainty." "What's that?" I asked hopefully. "That's Brother William of Baskerville, who thinks he knows everything, but doesn't know how to get into Africa's End. Go to the stables, Adso, go to the stables." "What if the dean finds us?" "We can pretend to be a pair of ghosts." ※Bandhammer School の Jing School E Book※ I don't think this is an actual answer, but I'm silent.William was growing restless.We went out by the north door, through the cemetery, the wind howling, and I begged God not to let us run into two ghosts, for the Abbey had no shortage of suffering souls that night.We arrived at the stables and heard the horses thumping impatiently, more nervously than ever.The gate to the stable was about as high as a man's chest, and it was a wide metal gate, from which one could look inside.In the darkness we could make out the shapes of the horses, and I recognized Brunales, first from the left.To its right, a third horse raised its head and neighed as it sensed someone approaching.I couldn't help smiling, and murmured: "Tertius equi."

"What?" William asked. "Nothing. I just thought of poor Salvatore. He wanted to show God knows what magic with that horse, and in his broken Latin, called it 'tertius equi'. That's 'U'." "'U'?" William seemed absent-minded. "Yeah, because 'tertius equi' doesn't mean the third horse, but the horse's third, and the third letter of 'equus' is 'U, but that's nonsense..." William watched me, and in the darkness I seemed to see his face distorted: "God bless you, Adso!" he cried, "Ah, of course, 'suppositio materialis' substitute, the conversation should be 'de ditto' Instead of 'de re'... what a fool I am!" - He smacked his forehead hard with a "snap" that must have hurt - "Boy, this is the second time a Word of Wisdom has come from today You said, first in a dream, but now awake! Quick, run back to your room, and fetch the lamps, one for each of you. Don't let anyone see you, and join me at church at once! Don't ask ! Go!"

I didn't ask any questions, and ran immediately.The two lamps were hidden under my bed, both filled with oil and adjusted by me beforehand.I stuffed the flint and steel into my monk's robe, put the two lamps on my chest, and rushed into the chapel. Under the tripod, William looked again at the parchment on which Venantius had written notes. "Adesso," he said to me, "'primum et septimum de quatuor' does not mean the first and seventh of four, but four, the word 'four'!" At first, I was still a little confused, and then I suddenly realized: "'super thronos viginti quatuor'! It's that poem! The words carved on the mirror!"

"Come on!" said William, "maybe we'll save a life in time!" "Whose?" I asked.William operated the skull to open the passage to the Ossuary. "A man who doesn't deserve his life," he said.We have entered the underground passage, each holding a lamp, towards the door leading to the kitchen. ※Bandhammer Academy's E-Book※ Here, as I said before, you only have to open a wooden door to find yourself in the kitchen, behind the fireplace, at the bottom of the spiral staircase leading to the office.When we were about to open the door, we heard a few muffled noises from the wall on the left.The sound came from the wall beside the door, where the alcove where the bones came to an end.What should have been the last alcove was filled with large square stones to fill a blank wall, and in the center was an old plaque with some monograms carved on it.It sounded as if the muffled sound was coming from behind the panel, or else from above it, as if from behind the wall and above our heads.

Had this happened on the first night, I would have immediately thought of the dead monk.But now I feel that the living are more terrifying than the dead. "Who could that be?" I asked. William opened the door and went behind the fireplace.The knocking sounded along the side wall of the staircase, as if someone had been imprisoned within the wall, or else there was some space between the thick wall (it was thick) of the southern tower. "Someone's been locked in there," William said. "I've been wondering if there might be another way into Africa's End in this cathedral full of passages. Apparently there is. From the Ossuary Hall, before you go up to the kitchen, that wall can be opened, and there is a staircase inside, going up parallel to this one. Hidden in the wall, it can lead directly to the room without a door."

"But who could be in there?" "Second man. One is already in End of Africa, and the other is trying to catch up with him, but the one up there must have blocked the access control mechanism. So the second man can't get in or out. I think , he made such a noise because there wouldn't be much air in that narrow space." "Who is that? We must save him!" "We'll soon find out who it is. As for saving him, the only way to save him is to open the mechanism from above—we don't know the secret of this end. So let's go upstairs quickly."

We walked quickly to the office, and from there to the maze, and quickly walked to the south tower.Twice I had to slow down because the wind that came in through the gaps that night created drafts that penetrated every aisle and whimpered in every room and rustled the pages on the desk , so I must reach out to shield the flame. After a while we were in the room with the mirrors, this time mentally prepared for the twisted game that awaited us.We raised the lamp aloft, illuminating the verse above the frame: "'super thronos viginti quatuor'—"on the twenty-fourth throne"—and by this time the secret was revealed: four "quatuor" There are seven letters in this word, and we have to press "n" and "r". I was so excited to do it myself, so I hurriedly put the lamp on the table in the middle of the room. But I was really in a hurry, The flame burned to the binding of a book.

"Be careful, idiot!" William hurriedly blew out the flames and shouted, "Do you want to set fire to the library?" I apologized and tried to turn the lights on again. ※Bandhammer Academy's E-Book※ "Don't light it," William said. "My one is enough. You take the lamp and help me light it, because the engraving is too high for you to touch. We must hurry." "What if there's a man in there with a weapon?" I asked, watching William tiptoe for those crucial letters, touch that verse from the Book of Revelation.