S. is introduced to Tupp, a man who works for Vévoda and will help him and Sola with their plan. On the margins, the reader notices a new problem regarding Moody and Ilsa:

Email from the provost. They’re going to investigate the archive thefts. Don’t know how they’ll get into Moody’s house, but still…

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How do you feel about the lie?

It wasn’t really a lie. Just a story. I mean, he would have tried to bribe me for access if Ilsa hadn’t been willing to steal for him.

Pretty sure that’s still  a lie.

Well, it can be both. Plus, they won’t care when they find all that stuff he stole. And if they do – so what? I’ll be like 5000 miles away? and I’ve graduated. They’ve got nothing.

On a later round of notes Eric explains that Arturo said a Frenchman gave the envelope to FXC in the mid-70’s. Eric suspects it was Desjardins.