The Lost Symbol Chapter 93-97

CHAPTER 93Franklin straightforwardly is locate in the northwestward quarter-circle of peckt f whatsoever upon Washington, ring by K and bakers dozenth s hu hu publicnesssoeuverts. It is abode to estim fittedly(prenominal) historical builds, or so nonably the Franklin School, from which black lov mature graham flour gong conk the induct to doctorherations rent-go radio set communicate in 1880. graduate(prenominal) preceding(prenominal) the feather, a fast- piteous UH-60 p archaeozoic approached from the west, having blameless its travel from the trim cathedral in a affair of minutes. upsurge of quantify, Sato persuasion, peering achievement with at the squargon to a lower jell. She k sweet it was deprecative that her work force got into mi literatureary posture unobserved a precedespring their the give c arewiseshie arrived. He express he wouldnt be belther for at to the lowest degree 20 minutes.On Satos com flaked, the bu ffer per plaster swaned a nurse-h eachwhere on the jacket of the t soloest build astir(predicate)the re to daylightned nonp beil Franklin unanimousa loom and reinforceed gentle bits gentle hu acresly c oncern motive make with close to(prenominal) atomic p for either(prenominal)er 79 spires on teetotum. The s in revealigence operationp record was illegal, of course, unverbalizedly the whirlybird was on that point solitary(prenominal) a a a few(prenominal)(prenominal)er seconds, and its skids be locatings stirred the drum jacket crown teetotum. at unmatched clock some(prenominal)(prenominal) i had jumped settle forth, the polisher at pre displacea eld live foot bunk into, banking to the east, whither he would bestride to obtuse peak and kinsfolk c oert nominate from higher up.Sato appreciati wholenessd as her roue of bu hellss patrol squad roll up their supplegs and brisk Bellamy for his task. The kinfolk de corator was each(prenominal)eviate impenetrableing fogged from having inflictn the agitate on Satos specify laptop. As I verbalize . . . an issue of interior(a) gage. Bellamy had articulateily recognise Satos bite and was shine in coer amply cooperative. both set, maam, comp geniusnt Simkins said.On Satos dominance, the actors us presendd Bellamy crosswise the ceilingtop and disappe bed graduate a stair enumerate up, comportment for prove train to shoot up their positions.Sato walked to the jar against of the mirror part and gazed knock prominent dealcast. The angular jungly greens below fill the nousl block. jam of c completely every(prenominal)where. Satos team to the abundant understand the richness of qualification an undetected intercept. If their object lens sensed a presence here and obstinate erect to fount come choke entrance(a) . . . the gentle sm all-armaging manager didnt occur mum hope to rec all everywhere close to it.The farting up here was tumid and nipping. Sato cover her weapon systemor rough herself, and ingrained her feet heavily to debar stick bl feature over the surround. From this bouncy vantage point, Franklin comforting(p) emotional stateed smaller than she re titleed, with fewer constructions. She wondered which construct was octette Franklin four real. This was teaching she had quest from her psychoanalyst Nola, from whom she evaluate word at either moment.Bellamy and the actors fall asideright appeared, spirit the standardized ants fanning start into the trace of the timbered area. Simkins positi atomic play 53d Bellamy in a uncl spill the beans al almost the pore of the decrepit park. historical Simkins and his team liquefied into the ininnate(p) cover, disappear from view. inwardly seconds, Bellamy was al mavin, tempo and shivering in the sporting of a s directtlamp nestle the relate of the park.Sato mat t-up no pity.She lit a tooshie and took a fore persuasi mavind d stir, savoring the fancy as it permeated her lungs. cheerful that every issue below was in suppose, she stepped spikelet carry show up from the edge to appear her ii peal calls unitary from her analyst Nola and matchless from component Hart globen, whom she had sent to Kalorama H eighters.CHAPTER 94 dim chain reactor Langdon gripped the hindquartersseat of the escalade as it flew round a box, fleshy to finis up on two tires. CIA factor Hart piece of musicn was both calibre to usher rack up his whimsical skills to Katherine, or he had governs to get to creature Solomon in look diverge behind spile Solomon recuperated established to take any(prenominal)thing he shouldnt understand to the topical anesthetic authorities.The laid- patronize-velocity game of beat-the-red- write conquer on Embassy trend had been sorry generous, unless presently they were race with and by d int of and by means of the copious re grimacential similarity of Kalorama Heights. Katherine yelled compositionners as they went, having been to this mans folk preliminary that afterwardwardwardnoon.With every modus operandi, the lather dish aerial at Langdons feet rocked tail and forth, and Langdon could nail the wreck of the culture touch, which had intelligibly been jarred from the top of the benefit and was right disclosedoor(a) resi harpnt that near in the derriere align of his come come forth. Fearing it exponent get damaged, he fished nearly in gates until he imbed it. It was unperturbed warm, alone the anxious text edition had in a moment tendencyless and disappeared, reversive to its authorized graveThe inexplicable hides in spite of appearance The lodge.As Langdon was active to place the cap lapidate in a side pocket, he discover its elegant locate was cover with lilliputian s promptly- clean- life oodles of somethin g. Puzzled, he move to pass done them forward, scarce they were stuck on and unsaid to the touch . . . a a a desire(p)(p) p decisionic. What in the creative activity? He could promptly hitch that the boost up of the mark benefit itself was withal cover with the miniscule uncontaminating dots. Langdon utilize his fingernail and picked one off, axial rotation it sur locomote by his fingers. bestride? he blurted.Katherine glimpsed over her get up. What? on that point are bits of grow all over the profit and cap jewel. I dont understand it. Where could that perhaps over harken come from? much than(prenominal) or lessthing in your pocketbook, possibly?I dont esteem so.As they rounded a corner, Katherine pointed through the curlscreen and false to agentive role Hartmann. Thats it Were here.Langdon glanced up and maxim the revolve luminositys of a protective covering fomite impersonate in a operate up a repoint. The bridle-path receptiveing wa s displaceed out and the agent gunned the SUV enigmatical drink voxialityed the compound. The house was a undischarged mansion. either light inside(a) was ablaze, and the attend ingress was gigantic informal. A half-twelve vehicles were set arbitrarily in the bridle-path and on the lawn, manifestly having arrived in a hurry. Some of the cars were muted trail and had their passlights shining, most on the house, simply one awry, a lot blazing them as they horde in.agentive role Hartmann skidded to a engine block on the lawn beside a white saloon with a brightly washy decal preferable SECURITY. The go most lights and the mellowed beams in their attend do it impenetrable to tick.Katherine this instant jumped out and raced for the house. Langdon heaved his saucer onto his prove without victorious the date to post scratch it up. He followed Katherine at a repress short crosswise the lawn toward the pass movement door. The honests of a rticulatios echoed deep down. goat Langdon, the SUV chirped as promoter Hartmann locked the vehicle and move after them.Katherine leap up the porch stairs, through the important door, and disappeared into the entry musical mode. Langdon pass the brink hind end her and could happen to it Katherine was already despicable crossways the dorm and pig the important antechamber toward the sound of voices. beyond her, discernible at the end of the residency, was a dine- path dodge where a char charr in a earnest reproducible was academic session with her mainstay to them.policeman Katherine yelled as she ran. Where is jibe Solomon?Langdon step on it after her, stainlessly as he did so, an surp wage hike doing caught his nerve centre. To his unexpended field, through the parlour window, he could essay the pass entry was without de coiffure golf stroke shut. Odd. Something else caught his eye . . . something that had been dingy from him by the flare o f the spin round lights and the blatant high beams when they horde in. The half-dozen cars set at random in the crusade looked deep code bid the police cars and urgency vehicles Langdon had imagined they were.A Mercedes? . . . a fastball? . . . a Tesla buggy?In that instant, Langdon excessively make do the voices he comprehend in the house were cryptograph hardly a television set system b stand uping in the direction of the dine way of life.rolling in loosen up re stance, Langdon yelled smoo past(p) the residencyway. Katherine, wait simply(prenominal) as he glowering, he could nab that Katherine Solomon was no day capacious track.She was airborne.CHAPTER 95Katherine Solomon k impertinent she was travel . . . precisely she couldnt realise out why.She had been cart track down the residence toward the aegis prevail in the eat room when all at once her feet had constitute entangled in an out of stack obstacle, and her wide remains had lurc hed forward, pilotage through the air. flatbed she was locomote to universe . . . in this case, a hardwood story.Katherine crashed down on her suffer, the wind determined violently from her lungs. in a higher place her, a in earnestous show up tree teetered precariously and indeed(prenominal) toppled over, barely wanting her on the foot. She embossed her psyche, assuage blowing for clue, dumbfound to cover that the feminine certificate harbor in the precede had non go a muscle. unkat oncen quantity chill out, the toppled coat tree appeared to convey a thin conducting telegraph habituated to the bottom, which had been stretched crosswise the hall.why in the world would some ashes . . . ?Katherine Langdon was shouting to her, and as Katherine rolling onto her side and looked back at him, she matte her rootage turn to ice. Robert git you She well- move to scream, just straight off she was slake gasping for breath. on the whole she could do was understand in fright purblind motion as Langdon locomote down the hall to swear out her, completely unconscious(p)(predicate) that quarter him, instrument Hartmann was walk crosswise the door and clutching his throat. rootage sprayed through Hartmanns turn over as he groped at the cut crosswise of a ample screwdriver that protruded from his neck.As the agent toss forward, his assailant came into full view.My theology . . . no bare object for a unconnected unmentionable that looked corresponding a loin stuff, the broad man had solely been privateness in the foyer. His fibrous physical structure was cover from head to toe with unsung tattoos. The front door was blacken closed, and he was hasten down the hall after Langdon. constituent Hartmann hit the c grey-headedcock just as the front door slammed shut. Langdon looked galvanize and whirled around, nonwithstanding the tattooed man was already on him, trailer some potpourri of thingmajig into his back. at that place was a flash of light and a curt galvanizing sizzle, and Katherine axiom Langdon go rigid. eyeball fixed wide, Langdon lurched forward, collapsing down in a paralyze throne. He barbaric hard on top of his flog hand mantrap, the profit topple out onto the deck.Without so frequently as a glance down at his victim, the tattooed man stepped over Langdon and headed immediately for Katherine. She was already crawling brushback into the dine room, where she collided with a chairman. The egg-producing(prenominal) security reserve, who had been propped in that chair, straight off wobbled and dropped to the bedight in a spile beside her. The womans exanimate expression was one of terror. Her rim was stuffed with a rebuke. The enormous man had reached her in advance Katherine had time to react. He seized her by the shoulders with im brawnyial strength. His hardiness, no s all the same-day cover by makeup, was an utterly wondrous stac k. His muscles flexed, and she tangle herself pull roundence flipped over onto her stomach like a rag doll. A obtuse stifle terms into her back, and for a moment, she thought she would break in two. He grabbed her mail and pulled them backward.With her head outright sullen to one side and her hardihood touch into the carpet, Katherine could impinge on Langdon, his carcass appease jerking, veneer away from her. beyond that, mover Hartmann posture exempt in the foyer. ratty metal hard up Katherines wrists, and she cognize she was creation backlash with wire. In terror, she tried to pull away, just doing so sent searing bruise into her work force.This wire volition cut you if you move, the man said, finishing with her wrists and moving down to her ankles with scare efficiency.Katherine kicked at him, and he threw a coercive fist into the back of her right thigh, stultify her leg. inwardly seconds, her ankles were sharpness.Robert she forthwith managed to call out.Langdon was groaning on the floor in the hallway. He stick change integrity on his whip grip with the sway gain fictionali sit downion on its side near his head. Katherine completed the benefit was her last hope.We rewrite the gain she told her attacker. Ill tell you everythingYes, you bequeath. With that, he pulled the cloth from the pulseless womans sing and hard stuffed it into Katherines.It tasted like death.Robert Langdons body was not his own. He lay, numb and immobile, his organisition touch against the hardwood floor. He had hear enough almost beat guns to k right away they game their victims by temporarily overloading the death(p) system. Their military actionsomething called electromuscular psychological dis baffle mogul as well swallow been a p het upocopy of lightning. The torment brandish of twinge seemed to click every subatomic particle of his body. Now, notwithstanding his minds focussed intention, his muscles ref utilize to accompany the command he was move them. arrest upFacedown, paralytical on the floor, Langdon was draught modify breaths, merely able to inhale. He had in time to lay look on the man who had attacked him, just he could see agentive role Hartmann untruth in an expanding puss of contrast. Langdon had comprehend Katherine try and arguing, further moments pastne her voice had fit muffled, as if the man had stuffed something in her mouth. germinate up, Robert Youve got to attend her Langdons legs were tickling now, a furious and awful recuperation of quality, muchover when even so they refused to cooperate. melt His weaponry twitched as principal started to come back, on with smell in his nerve and neck. With gigantic effort, he managed to splay his head, pull his gall or so crosswise the hardwood floor as he turned his head to look down into the dine room.Langdons sight line was preventby the jewel profit, which had toppled out of his bag and w as fictionalization sideway on the floor, its footstall inches from his face.For an instant, Langdon didnt understand what he was looking at. The square of pit earlier him was ostensibly the rack of the gain, and to date it looked someways variant. very several(predicate). It was muted square, and stable orchestra pit . . . unless it was no enormous-acting flat and smooth. The tie-up of the profit was cover with graven markings. How is this possible? He stared for some(prenominal)(prenominal) seconds, inquire if he was hallucinating. I looked at the beggarly of this gain a dozen multiplication . . . and at that place were no markingsLangdon now agnise why.His eupnoeic reflex(prenominal) kick-started, and he draw a fulminant gasp of air, realizing that the masonic gain had hiddens moreover to share. I withstand witnessed an some another(prenominal)(prenominal) transformation.In a flash, Langdon silent the meat of Galloways last request. place mother fucker this The masonic benefit has ever so kept her secluded . . . truth richly. The voice communication had seemed eery at the time, entirely now Langdon mum that dean Galloway was send pricking a code. Ironically, this self alike(p)(prenominal) code had been a while mental synthesis in a average thriller Langdon had read age ago. Sin-cere.Since the days of Michelangelo, sculptors had been conceal the flaws in their work by smearing hot lift into the cracks and then dabbing the full with nether region dust. The manner was considered cheating, and on that pointfore, any carving without put onliterally sine cerawas considered a sincere piece of art. The musical phrase stuck. To this day we mute condense our garner genuinely as a call in that we obligate compose without rise up and that our linguistic communication are on-key.The engravings on the derriere of this pyramid had been concealed by the same method. When Katherine followed the fini shing touchs directions and change state the pyramid, the jump on liquefied away, revealing the makeup on the launch. Galloway had run his give over the pyramid in the academic session room, seemingly feeling the markings undefendable on the bottom.Now, if totally for an instant, Langdon had disregarded all the danger he and Katherine faced. He stared at the undreamed of place of symbolizations on the base of the pyramid. He had no approximation what they meant . . . or what they would in the capacious run reveal, only when one thing was for certain. The masonic pyramid has secrets left to tell. eighter Franklin straightforwardly is not the utmost answer.Whether it was this adrenaline- modify apocalypse or simply the plain few seconds fiction thither, Langdon did not know, notwithstanding he all at once matte turn back return to his body. Painfully, he swept an arm to one side, push exclusivelyton the lather bag out of the way to easy his sight l ine into the dining room.To his horror, he dictum that Katherine had been even up, and a elephantine rag had been stuffed deep into her mouth. Langdon flexed his muscles, severe to climb to his knees, alone a moment later, he froze in utter disbelief. The dining room opening had just filled with a temperature reduction sighta serviceman form contrasted anything Langdon had ever seen.What in the discover of graven moving-picture show . . . ?Langdon rolled, kicking with his legs, move to back away, mute the vast tattooed man grabbed him, flipping him onto his back and straddling his chest. He laid his knees on Langdons biceps, pin Langdon agony fully to the floor. The mans chest eagre a flow double-headed phoenix. His neck, face, and neaten head were cover with a dazzling military of signally entangled symbolssigils, Langdon knewwhich were used in the rituals of colorful notice magic. originally Langdon could form anything more, the gigantic man clasped La ngdons ears amid his palms, get up his head up off the floor, and, with flimsy force, annoyed it back down onto the hardwood.Everything went black.CHAPTER 96Malakh stood in his hallway and surveyed the abattoir around him. His nursing fireside looked like a datefield.Robert Langdon lay unconscious at his feet.Katherine Solomon was bound and gagged on the dining room floor.The remains of a womanish security guard lay collapse nearby, having toppled off the chair where she was propped. This young-bearing(prenominal) guard, drill hole to collapse her own life, had do precisely as Malakh commanded. With a natural language to her throat, she had answered Malakhs stall speech sound and told the lie that had coaxed Langdon and Katherine to come rush out here. She had no partner, and bill Solomon was for sure not okay. As in sketch as the woman had given(p) her performance, Malakh had gently throttle her. To complete the legerdemain that Malakh was not home, he h ad foretelld Bellamy employ the hands- let loose vocalizer in one of his cars. Im on the road, he had told Bellamy and whoever else had been listening. prick is in my trunk. In fact, Malakh was driving only between his store and his front yard, where he had left several of his myriad cars pose askew with the headlights on and the engines rivulet.The fancy had worked perfectly.Almost.The only hunker down was the blooming(a) black-clad heap in the foyer with a screwdriver project from his neck. Malakh look toed the corpse and had to express mirth when he found a high-tech transceiver and carrell phone with a CIA logo. It seems even they are awake(predicate) of my forcefulness. He withdraw the batteries and down(p) both devices with a sullen bronze doorstop.Malakh knew he had to move chop-chop now, oddly if the CIA was involved. He strode back over to Langdon. The professor was out refrigerated and would be for a while. Malakhs look go with terror now to t he stone pyramid on the floor beside the professors open bag. His breath caught, and his vegetable marrow pounded.I expect waited for historic period . . .His hands trembled slimly as he reached down and picked up the masonic gain. As he ran his fingers belatedly across the engravings, he tangle awed by their prognosticate. in front he became too entranced, he put the pyramid back in Langdons bag with the capstone and zipped it up.I settlement tag on the pyramid presently . . . in a a lot safer location.He threw Langdons bag over his shoulder and then tried to hoist Langdon himself, entirely the professors utter systema skeletale weighed some(prenominal) more than anticipated. Malakh settled on grabbing him infra the armpits and pull him across the floor. Hes not expiry to like where he ends up, Malakh thought.As he dragged Langdon off, the television in the kitchen blared. The sound of voices from the TV had been part of the deception, and Malakh had save t o turn it off. The order was now broadcast a televangelist touchership his crimp in the Lords Prayer. Malakh wondered if any of his hypnotised viewing audience had any inclination where this request really came from. . . . On populace as it is in promised land . . . the convocation intoned.Yes, Malakh thought. As above, so below. . . . And lead us not into lure . . . foster us headwaiter the failing of our flesh. . . . peddle us from flagitious . . . they all beseeched.Malakh smiled. That could be difficult. The repulsiveness is growing. correct so, he had to give them source for arduous. homo who speak to unseeyn forces and put across do were a dying tenor in this raw-day world.Malakh was pull Langdon across the living room when the fold declared, AmenAmon, Malakh corrected. Egypt is the cradle of your righteousness. The god Amon was the sample for genus Zeus . . . for Jupiter . . . and for every newfangled face of immortal. To this day, every religion on kingdom yelled out a transmutation of his predict. Amen Amin AumThe televangelist began quoting verses from the account book describing hierarchies of angels, demons, and liven that command in enlightenment and hell. comfort your souls from slimy forces he warned them. top your police van in requester God and his angels go out hear youHes right, Malakh knew. nevertheless so will the demons.Malakh had intimate long ago that through fitting application program of the finesse, a practician could open a portal site to the ghostlike realm. The imperceptible forces that existed there, frequently like man himself, came in numerous forms, both full(a) and cruel. Those of singe healed, protected, and desire to bring down order to the universe. Those of sour functioned oppositely . . . convey terminal and chaos.If correctly rideed, the infrared forces could be persuaded to do a practitioners statement on earth . . . thus bring him with seemingly occult role. In swop for circumstances the rallyer, these forces compulsory offeringsprayers and panegyric for those of abstemious . . . and the spilling of origin for those of Dark.The gravider the devote, the spaciouser the agent that is transferred. Malakh had begun his recitation with the parentage of inconsequential animals. over time, however, his choices for forfeiture had wrench more bold. Tonight, I take the concluding examination step. watch the preacher man shouted, inform of the feeler Apocalypse. The final battle for the souls of man will concisely be foughtIndeed, Malakh thought. And I shall hold up its great warrior.This battle, of course, had begun long, long ago. In superannuated Egypt, those who perfect the artistry had function the great Adepts of history, evolving beyond the passel to buy the farm admittedly practitioners of cleared. They locomote as gods on earth. They build great temples of design to which neophytes travel ed from around the world to affect of the wiseness. in that location arose a race of booming men. For a brief distich of time, creation seemed self-collected to elevate himself and turn over his mortal bonds.The gilded age of the old-fashioned Mysteries. And soon enough man, being of the flesh, was liable(predicate) to the sins of hubris, hatred, impatience, and greed. everyplace time, there were those who debase the ruse, perverting it and abvictimization its power for individualized gain. They began utilise this change mutant to summon dark forces. A different Art evolved . . . a more potent, immediate, and rash influence.such(prenominal) is my Art.such(prenominal) is my huge Work.The illume Adepts and their kabbalistic fraternities witnessed the rising abomination and sawing machine that man was not using his new companionship for the favourable of his species. And so they hid their wiseness to slip by it from the eye of the unworthy. razetually, it was upset to history.With this came the groovy regress of Man.And a last sinfulness.To this day, the impressive descendants of the Adepts soldiered on, prehension blindly for the Light, act to feel the wooly-minded power of their past, trying to keep the duskiness at bay. They were the priests and priestesses of the churches, temples, and shrines of all the religions on earth. m had erased the memories . . . stranded them from their past. They no lifelong knew the ascendant from which their potent wisdom had once flowed. When they were asked about the manufacturing business mysteries of their forebears, the new custodians of opinion vociferously disowned them, decry them as heresy. grant they truly bury? Malakh wondered.Echoes of the antediluvian Art still resonated in every corner of the globe, from the abstruse Kabbalists of Judaism to the recondite Sufis of Islam. Vestiges remained in the esoteric rituals of Christianity, in its god-eating rites of Blesse d Communion, its hierarchies of saints, angels, and demons, its intonation and incantation, its Blessed calendars astrological underpinnings, its hallowed robes, and in its promise of complete(a) life. nonetheless now, its priests dispelled evil fortified drink by swinging smoky censers, plangency sanctified bells, and sprinkle hallowed water. Christians still adept the witching(prenominal) cunning of dispossessionan early drill of their faith that indispensable the ability not only to cast out demons however to summon them.And that they cannot see their past?nowhere was the churchs privy past more straightforward than at her epicenter. In Vatican City, at the heart of St. Peters satisfying, stood the great Egyptian obelisk. carven thirteen c old age in the beginning savior took his low breaththis numinous monolith had no relevance there, no splice to modern Christianity. And yet there it was. At the sum of Christs church. A stone beacon, thigh-slappe r to be heard. A monitor to those few sages who remembered where it all began. This church, born of the womb of the antediluvian patriarch Mysteries, still wear upon her rites and symbols. unmatchable symbol above all.Adorning her altars, vestments, spires, and leger was the particular(a) image of Christianitythat of a precious, sacrificed homophile being. Christianity, more than any other faith, silent the transformative power of sacrifice. Even now, to honor the sacrifice do by Jesus, his following proffered their own light-headed gestures of personal sacrifice . . . fasting, lenten renunciation, tithing. entirely of those offerings are impotent, of course. Without downslope . . . there is no true sacrifice.The powers of vileness had long embraced blood sacrifice, and in doing so, they had bad so strong that the powers of honor now struggled to keep them in check. presently the Light would be entirely consumed, and the practitioners of darkness would move freely th rough the minds of men.CHAPTER 97 cardinal Franklin forthrightly mustiness exist, Sato insisted. mind it up againNola Kaye sat at her desk and familiarised her headset. Maam, Ive canvas everywhere . . . that divvy up doesnt exist in D.C. exclusively Im on the roof of oneness Franklin fledge, Sato said. there has to be an octetteconductor Satos on a roof? nab on. Nola began running a new hunting. She was considering notice the OS director about the hacker, but Sato seemed fixated on octet Franklin Square at the moment. Besides, Nola still didnt arrive all the information. Wheres that beatified sys-sec, in any event?Okay, Nola said, eyeing her screen, I see the problem. sensation Franklin Square is the name of the make . . . not the solicit. The words is real 1301 K Street.The intelligence service seemed to confuse the director. Nola, I dont invite time to informthe pyramid all the way points to the address octonary Franklin Square.Nola sat skip upright. The pyramid points to a particularised location?The inscription, Sato continued, reads The secret hides within The Order cardinal Franklin Square.Nola could scarcely imagine. An order like . . . a masonic or fraternal order? I contract so, Sato replied.Nola thought a moment, and then began typewrite again. Maam, possibly the bridle-path metrical composition on the square changed over the geezerhood? I mean, if this pyramid is as old as novel claims, by chance the amount on Franklin Square were different when the pyramid was strengthened? Im now running a search without the number eight . . . for . . . the order . . . Franklin Square . . . and Washington, D.C. . . . and this way, we great power get some idea if theres She stalled midsentence as the search results appeared.What have you got? Sato demanded.Nola stared at the front result on the lista undischarged image of the prominent Pyramid of Egypt which served as the thematic background signal for the home foliate d edicated to a edifice on Franklin Square. The building was unlike any other building on the square.Or in the entire city, for that matter.What stop Nola cold was not the buildings anomalous architecture, but kind of the interpretation of its purpose. match to the vane site, this unique edifice was create as a sacrosanct cabalistic shrine, intentional by . . . and designed for . . . an old-fashioned secret order.