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‘What happened then?’

Sandon was breathing heavily, back in that wicked roo else

‘She could hear soht I’d die There were two screams, maybe more Horrible sounds Then a thump I was almost blind with fear but I saw Madeleine drop I was too scared to ot there and so did Myrna By the tiathered around Madeleine’

‘Including Monsieur Béliveau?’

‘No, he wasn’t there I got there before hirateful it was her and not me And then we turned her over’

‘I couldn’t believe it,’ said Jeanne, re back to that face she’d spent the last two days running from ‘We tried to find a pulse, tried to do CPR, but she was so rigid it was ih the life had been ripped right out of her You say a drug called…’ she see whether this was an act ‘I’ve forgotten the na did that?’

‘Ephedra It’s actually an herb, a natural substance It’s used by people ant to diet, but it’s been banned Too dangerous What was your iroup?’

‘This was actually the second séance The first was Friday night at the bistro’

‘Good Friday,’ said Gamache

‘There were tensions I could feel, mostly from two of the e bearded one But men are often like that at séances They either don’t believe and are full of negative energy, or they do believe and are ey But I actually had the i there I think they didn’t like each other The big rocer man--’

‘Monsieur Béliveau,’ said Ga dark about him’

Gamache looked at her with surprise What little he knew of the man he liked He see so,’ said Jeanne

‘We all are,’ said Gamache

‘You come here every day?’ Beauvoir asked after Sandon had finished his story It sounded like a pickup line and Beauvoir tried not to blush

‘Uh huh To find the wood for my furniture’