Chapter 91 Chapter Eighty-Nine

The almost perfect cabin of Teabing's Falconer was now covered with a thin layer of steel.The air was compressed and smelled like propane.Bezu Fache sent everyone away, and he sat alone with his drink and the heavy wooden box he had found in Teabing's safe. His fingers slid over the inlaid rose and lifted the ornate cover.Inside he found a boulder marked with a carousel of letters.These five letters spell SOFIA.Fache stared at the five letters for a long time, then lifted the cylinder from the pad and inspected it carefully, for fear of missing any part of it. The legal system put the cylinder back into the wooden box, and then looked blankly at the hangar outside through the window of the plane, still thinking about the brief conversation with Sophie just now and the news from the PTS at Villette Manor. coming news.Suddenly, the phone rang, waking him up from his daydream.

The call came through the switchboard of the French Central Police Station.The dispatcher came up and kept apologizing, saying that the president of Savings Bank in Zurich kept calling and that he kept calling despite being told repeatedly that the lieutenant was on a business trip to London.Reluctantly, Fache asked the operator to take the call. "Mr. Vernet," Fache said before the man could speak, "I'm sorry I didn't call you just now. I'm always busy. I promised you I wouldn't give you the bank's name Appeared in various media. So, what are you worried about?"

Hearing some uneasiness in Vernet's tone, he told Fache how Langdon and Sophie got the wooden box out of the bank and how they persuaded him to help them escape. "But when I heard they were guilty, I pulled over to the side of the road and asked them to give me the box back, but they attacked me and drove away with my car." "So you still care about the rosewood box." Fache looked at the rose inlaid on the cover, and then gently lifted the cover to reveal the white cylinder. "Then tell me, what's in it?" "There's nothing good in it." Vernet became emotional: "I'm just worried that the bank's reputation will be damaged. Our bank has never been robbed before, never. If I can't help customers find this One thing and our reputation will be ruined."

"You just said that Sophie and Langdon have the code and the key, so why do you say they stole the box?" "They killed people tonight, including Sophie Neveu's grandfather. Their keys and codes were obviously obtained through improper means." "Mr. Vernet, your background information and interests have been investigated very clearly by my staff. You are obviously a person of considerable education and good taste. I can also imagine that you, like me, are A decent man with a lot of faith. Well, let me assure you in the name of the captain of the police station, not only your box, but also your bank's reputation will not be damaged in the slightest."