CHAPTER THREE
Georgetown University
The next day
“So, as we can see, the scribes and scholars of the High Middle Ages used a variety of secret codes in order to communicate with one another. The Seville Manuscript uses the same type of code as the Turin Fragment. This particular code was broken four years ago by myself and Dr. Luis Hidalgo.”
Professor Remi Laurent flicked on another slide from her PowerPoint presentation. She dressed conservatively, in a white shirt and tan slacks, her long black hair reaching to her middle back. She had the high cheekbones, delicate features, and blue eyes of the French upper class from which she sprang, and a youthful appearance that, despite her 38 years, made her look not much older than the twenty-something graduate students taking up the front ro
