Bartoli's Hideout - Library Entrance - Secret #2 (Gold Dragon)
After dropping down the chimney Santa-style, as shown in the previous section, Lara splashes down in a flooded room. The books on the landing show you've found the LIBRARY. But before going in, lets find a secret. Pull the underwater lever, which is on the left just below the surface when facing the Library doors.
This opens a small door to the right of the lever. The next sequence involves swimming through a dark labyrinth. It's not a huge area, but its easy to get turned around and drown, so be sure to save the game first. Swim through the door you opened with the lever. Take a breath, light a flare, then swim down toward the far right corner of the room...
...where you'll see a submerged stairway. Swim straight down, beside the top step.
Then roll to face away from the stairs. There are two openings just ahead. Swim forward through the one on the right.
Stay close to the floor as you continue straight ahead through a second fairly large opening. Then veer to the left just a little and go through the small, rectangular opening near the floor.
Head toward the far left corner of the room...
...where you'll find 2 pairs of grenades (14-15). Pick them up. (See the note in the main walkthrough on how grenades are counted in inventory.) Turn right...
...swim straight across the room, and grab SECRET #2, the Gold Dragon (16), which is sitting on the floor in the corner. On the wall to the right of the dragon is a lever that opens a trapdoor directly above.
Pull the lever and swim straight up to the surface. (Of course, if you're running out of air, you can pull the lever first, take a breath, then swim back down and pick up the goodies.)
The trapdoor above the lever is the same one you saw earlier in the FLOODED ROOM WITH BLADES AND FLAME TRAP. To return to the LIBRARY, swim straight down to the lever.
Face it, then swim forward and slightly right, along the bottom, through the small opening at floor level.
Just beyond the small opening, veer slightly left. Then continue straight on...
...to the far side of the room.
When you reach the submerged stairs, swim upward and left...
...to the surface. Then swim through the small doorway on the left...
...and climb out of the water near the entrance to the LIBRARY.
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