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‘You kneas here’

Ga before this wretched display

‘And I was looking for you, sir I heard so to anyone so I thought maybe there was someone else Maybe the person who broke the police tape Maybe you needed help But,’ Le his head and shook it, ‘there’s no excuse I could have killed you Do you want un?’

‘I want the truth Don’t lie to , sir, really I know it sounds pathetic, but I just got scared’

And still Ga to work, Lemieux wondered?

‘Oh, God I’ and now this’

‘It was a mistake,’ said Gamache, his voice still hard but not as hard as before

He’d won What had Brébeuf said? ‘Everyone loves a sinner, but noneYour job is to drown’

And so he had He’d purposely left the ephedra clue up on Gabri’s coain Drawing his gun had been stupid, but he’d e And Ga hi of choice, his weakness He loved to forgive

‘Did you find anything, sir?’

‘Nothing This house isn’t ready to give up its secrets’

‘Secrets? The house has secrets?’

‘Houses are like people, Agent Le I’ve learned’

Arent Lemieux had to strain to hear

‘Do you knohat ent Lemieux?’

Lemieux shook his head Then out of the darkness and stillness he heard the answer

‘It’s our secrets that make us sick’

Behind him, a small creak broke the silence

THIRTY

‘What happened then?’ asked Lacoste They were on their way back to the Incident Room Once out of the canopy of trees they could see the storress was slow, but determined

‘Pardon?’ Beauvoir asked, distracted by the sight of the cloud

‘The Chief Inspector? He had the evidence against Arnot and the others, what’d he do with it?’