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‘Brilliant, mon ami Just ill appeal to a woman on her own’ Ga back at Beauvoir ‘I only let you do that because I know she’s not in there’

‘And I only did it because I knew you’d be a,’ Lemieux pointed out when they returned ‘Couldn’t we let ourselves in?’

‘Not yet,’ said Beauvoir ‘Not without a warrant and not until we know it’s‘What now?’ he asked Gamache

‘Search the place’

While Beauvoir and Leourmet kitchen, bathroo room and sat in the oversized leather chair

He closed his eyes and cleared his mind He orried Where was Jeanne Chauvet? What was she doing? What was she feeling? Guilt? Reic failure or a spectacular success?

Agent Robert Le roo Agent Lemieux was racked with doubt A kind of crisis of faith that his parents talked of suffering decades ago But his church was the Sûreté, the place that had taken hiiven him purpose While his parents eventually left their church, he’d never leave his Never leave it, and never, ever betray it His parents had raised him, fed him, disciplined and loved hiiven him a home He loved his parents and sisters, but only other officers knehat it was like to be in the Sûreté To walk out of the door, all cocky and swaggering, but being careful to tell his cat he loved her, just in case

Watching Chief Inspector Ga his throat, so trusting, Lemieux wondered just for an instant Had what he’d been told about Gao, Lemieux had worshipped Gamache On his first visit to headquarters as a recruit he’d seen the fa down the hall, junior officers in tow, decoding the most intricate and brutal of cases And yet he’d had ti They’d studied his cases They’d watched and cheered as Arht down the dirty Superintendent Arnot And saved the Sûreté

But things weren’t always as they see’ Beauvoir brushed by Le rooaze resting on Lemieux Their eyes held

Then Gamache blinked and he rocked hih rest Tient Lemieux, please stay here in case Jeanne Chauvet comes back You and I’, he said to Beauvoir as theyto see Hazel Smyth’

As he watched Gamache and Beauvoir walk to their car Lemieux hit the speed dial on his cell phone