Re: England to Egypt
In reply to Count Sigismund Bathony (msg # 486):
"My good Count, speaking in terms of the criminal mind, it makes sense that if any place in Rome would harbour cultists, it would be the Vatican for precisely the reason you went there: the collection of forbidden and unholy knowledge they possess and safeguard from the world.
"Infiltration might have been difficult. I believe Father Salvio said that Brother Casimiro had been to Egypt and on a mission to Africa in the past, perhaps he was the one that was converted? Once he was the keeper of the Vatican's dark secrets, as it were, he would be on guard for one such as yourself, who is not a usual visitor or part of the cult. In a matter of hours some hired thugs were all set to give a welcome to unsuspecting academics, perhaps to wash up later in the Tiber or found, equally dead, in some other place entirely."
He lit his pipe, and puffing it to life, gazed out the porthole at the distant banks. The outskirts of Cairo were coming into view as the yacht's engines took them up the Nile past farms, plantations and countless fishing towns and villages.