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There were nods around the ring Ga at Hazel

‘Madeleine kept so a secret Even from you Perhaps especially fro,’ said Hazel, as though defending her best friend

‘No One last thing, one huge thing, she kept fro Her cancer had spread’

‘Mais, non,’ said Monsieur Béliveau

‘But that’s i’

‘Odd that she didn’t I think she didn’t want to, because she sensed so that fed on, and created, weakness Had she told you, though, you wouldn’t have killed her But by then the plan was in motion It started with this’

He held up the aluotten from the school that afternoon

‘Madeleine was on the aluh school So were you’ Gamache turned to Jeanne, who nodded ‘Hazel took one of Gabri’s brochures, typed "Where lay lines meet – Easter Special" across the top and mailed it to Jeanne’

‘She stole one ofpicture, Gabri’

With a struggle he accepted that rieved as Madeleine Or Hazel

‘Poor Hazel,’ said Gabri, and everyone nodded Poor Hazel

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