Gustave

After leaving Beatrice's I walked across the street to Gustave Delven's.

"Goodness," Gustave began in a flourishing French, "you make it harder for a man to resist you."

I met Gustave Delven my first time in France. He was a historian writing a paper on the origin of nectar. He was trying to prove his hypothesis that Champs Les Sims was the birthplace of nectar.

I found him cute and charming, if a bit on the geeky side. Then again, I'm something of a geek myself. He asked me to interview a Monsieur Dutiel, whose relatives used to work at the Landgraab chateau.

Dutiel told me I needed to find the lost Landgraab library, and that the entrance to the library was somewhere near the front of the home.

Here I was, in the dead of night, with no lighting whatsoever, searching for some way to enter this giant old deserted mansion that apparently belonged to ancestors of my neighbors.

After I activated the switch (which BTW was VERY difficult to find, in the darkness and hidden beneath trees) I walked inside.

It took some digging but I finally got the papers Gustave was searching for, written by old Landgraab himself. And of course they were written in code.

The next morning Gustave sent me back to the Landgraab mansion, to find an Egyptian code-cracker named Yassir Hawass.