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Lieutenant
Collet
helped
himself
to
a
Perrier
from
Teabing
’
s
refrigerator
and
strode
back
out
through
the
drawing
room
.
Rather
than
accompanying
Fache
to
London
where
the
action
was
,
he
was
now
baby
-
sitting
the
PTS
team
that
had
spread
out
through
Château
Villette
.
So
far
,
the
evidence
they
had
uncovered
was
unhelpful
:
a
single
bullet
buried
in
the
floor
;
a
paper
with
several
symbols
scrawled
on
it
along
with
the
words
blade
and
chalice
;
and
a
bloody
spiked
belt
that
PTS
had
told
Collet
was
associated
with
the
conservative
Catholic
group
Opus
Dei
,
which
had
caused
a
stir
recently
when
a
news
program
exposed
their
aggressive
recruiting
practices
in
Paris
.
Collet
sighed
.
Good
luck
making
sense
of
this
unlikely
mélange
.
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Moving
down
a
lavish
hallway
,
Collet
entered
the
vast
ballroom
study
,
where
the
chief
PTS
examiner
was
busy
dusting
for
fingerprints
.
He
was
a
corpulent
man
in
suspenders
.
«
Anything
?
»
Collet
asked
,
entering
.
The
examiner
shook
his
head
.
«
Nothing
new
.
Multiple
sets
matching
those
in
the
rest
of
the
house
.
»
«
How
about
the
prints
on
the
cilice
belt
?
»
«
Interpol
is
still
working
.
I
uploaded
everything
we
found
.
»
Collet
motioned
to
two
sealed
evidence
bags
on
the
desk
.
«
And
this
?
»
The
man
shrugged
.
«
Force
of
habit
.
I
bag
anything
peculiar
.
»
Collet
walked
over
.
Peculiar
?
«
This
Brit
’
s
a
strange
one
,
»
the
examiner
said
.
«
Have
a
look
at
this
.
»
He
sifted
through
the
evidence
bags
and
selected
one
,
handing
it
to
Collet
.
The
photo
showed
the
main
entrance
of
a
Gothic
cathedral
–
the
traditional
,
recessed
archway
,
narrowing
through
multiple
,
ribbed
layers
to
a
small
doorway
.
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Collet
studied
the
photo
and
turned
.
«
This
is
peculiar
?
»
«
Turn
it
over
.
»
On
the
back
,
Collet
found
notations
scrawled
in
English
,
describing
a
cathedral
’
s
long
hollow
nave
as
a
secret
pagan
tribute
to
a
woman
’
s
womb
.
This
was
strange
.
The
notation
describing
the
cathedral
’
s
doorway
,
however
,
was
what
startled
him
.
«
Hold
on
!
He
thinks
a
cathedral
’
s
entrance
represents
a
woman
’
s
…
»
The
examiner
nodded
.
«
Complete
with
receding
labial
ridges
and
a
nice
little
cinquefoil
clitoris
above
the
doorway
.
»
He
sighed
.
«
Kind
of
makes
you
want
to
go
back
to
church
.
»
Collet
picked
up
the
second
evidence
bag
.
Through
the
plastic
,
he
could
see
a
large
glossy
photograph
of
what
appeared
to
be
an
old
document
.
The
heading
at
the
top
read
: