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‘Why give her ephedra in the middle of a dinner party? If the ht?’

It was a question that hounded Gaht?

‘Maybe he tried,’ he said ‘Did anything odd happen that Friday night?’

‘More odd than contacting dead people? Not that I remember’

‘Who did Madeleine have dinner with?’

‘Hazel, I guess No, wait, Madeleine didn’t go home for dinner She stayed here’

‘Had dinner at the bistro?’

‘No, with Monsieur Béliveau’ She looked over at his horeen ‘I like him Most people do’

‘Most, but not all?’

‘Don’t you let anything pass?’ she laughed

‘When I ather in a heap then rise up and take a life So, I try not to’ He suess not The only person I’ve ever seen actually cut Monsieur Béliveau was Gilles Sandon But then Gilles’s quite a character Do you know him?’

‘He works in the woods, doesn’t he?’

‘Makes a furniture, but I think there’s a reason he works with trees and not people’

‘How does Monsieur Béliveau feel about hihts He’s such a gentle man and kind He only went to the séance to keep Mad company, you know I could tell he didn’t like it at all Probably because of his dead wife’

‘Afraid she’d cohed ‘They were very close’

‘Do you think he expected her to show up?’