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‘But she could have been at the first She was invited If she’d wanted to kill Madeleine then she would have been there’

‘And maybe that hy she went to the second,’ said Gamache ‘The first didn’t work, so she had toher own daughter? Coht out the photo she’d taken off the fridge door at the Smyth place

‘Look at this’ She flicked it onto the table Beauvoir handed it down the table to Gamache who stared at it The photo showed three woreat and open affection at Hazel, earing a silly hat and sreat affection on her face too She was also in profile, looking off ca woround sat a birthday cake

‘Where’d you get this?’

‘The Se’

‘Why’d you take it? What interests you about it?’ Ga Nichol intently

‘It’s the face It says it all’

Nichol waited to see whether the others would get it Would they see that Madeleine Favreau, so pretty and s and attentive, was a fake? No one was really that happy She had to be pretending

‘You’re right,’ said Ga to Beauvoir ‘Do you see? Her?’ Gaer close to the photo

Beauvoir leaned in and studied the picture then his eyes opened wide

‘That’s Sophie That girl taking a bite of cake It’s Sophie’

‘Heavier,’ Garaph over Across the back ritten the date the picture was taken Two years ago

In only two years Sophie Smyth had dropped twenty, thirty pounds?

Ga up

‘Chief, it’s ent Lacoste ‘I finally have the report on the fingerprints We knoho broke into the room at the old Hadley house’

Hazel S now Like a toy whose connections were faulty, she lurched froain