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"Once?"

His nificance of that A single, catastrophic blow It was extremely rare A person, if hit once, was ale He’d rain blow after blow on his victih to kill It e to power a terrible blow, but enough control to stop there It was a frightening combination

"The victim had no identification, but we finally found a cabin hidden in the woods, where he lived and where he’d been murdered Émile, you should have seen as in there"

Érisly discoveries He waited for Gamache to describe the terrible cabin

"It was filled with treasure"

"Treasure?"

"I know," s É it either It was unbelievable Antiques and artifacts Priceless"

He had his mentor’s full attention É each other, relaxed and alert Once a hunter of killers, always that, and he could s Gamache knew about homicide he’d learned from this man And ned first editions, ancient pottery, leaded glass thousands of years old There was a panel fro to Catherine the Great"

And a violin In a breath Galy, aard, young, picking up the priceless violin, tucking it under his chin and leaning into it His body suddenly h bred to play this instru cabin with theCeltic lament

"Armand?"

"Sorry," Gamache came back to the stone ho"

His ave a nod and smiled "A tune"

"You found out who killed this recluse though?"

"We did The evidence was overwhels from the cabin in the bistro"

"Olivier was the murderer?" Émile lifted the letters and Gamache nodded

"It was hard for everyone to believe, hard for me to believe, but it was the truth"