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The faster she ran the h the trees sobbing and petrified, and alone

Even today, as she leaned in to the mirror, she could see the tiny scars made by the trees and her own terror And she reht she’d left her best friend to be taken instead of her Of course, the friend had burst through the trees aAnd they both knew that dead boy had indeed stolen so He’d stolen the trust between friends

Sharon Harris believed houses could be haunted, but she knew for sure people were

‘Do I believe in haunted houses, Chief Inspector? Are you really asking me that? A doctor and a scientist?’

‘I am,’ he smiled

‘Do you believe it?’

‘Now, you know ’

She hesitated for a moment, then decided, what the hell

‘That place is haunted’ She didn’t have to look, they both knehat she meant ‘By what, I don’t know Madeleine Favreau knows, but she had to die to find out Me? I don’t want to know that badly’

The two sat quietly on the bench in the very center of the peaceful village Around thehosts and deardened Gamache waited for Dr Harris to continue, and watched as Ruth tried to coax the tiny balls of fluff into the pond

‘I did a bit of research this afternoon on ephedra It’s froymnosperm shrub’

‘It’s an herb, isn’t it?’ said Gaent Lerows all over the place It’s an old-fashioned cold reo Called it Ma Huang Then the phar Ephedrine’

‘You say it grows all over the place--’

‘You’re wondering whether it grows here? It does There’s one over there’ She pointed to a huge tree on a front lawn Ga down to pick up a leathery, brown leaf, fallen in the autu hi up a leaf of her own It was an unusual shape, more of a fan than a classic leaf, with thick veins, like sinews ‘It’s part of the gymnosperm family’

‘Could someone extract ephedra from this?’ Gamache showed her his leaf