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"Nice neighborhood Quite a Merchants’ Association"

Gamache nodded "It took a while but we eventually found the cabin and the contents and the evidence the Hermit had been killed there All the forensics confirmed only two people had spent time in the cabin The Hermit, and Olivier And then we found ite thethem--"

"Foolish man"

"Greedythat terrible day when he knew the truth and had to act on it Seeing Olivier’s face, but worse, seeing Gabri’s

And then the trial, the evidence, the testimony

The conviction

Gamache looked down at the pile of letters on the sofa One every day since Olivier had been sentenced All cordial, all with the same question

Why would Olivierthis rant named Jakob, but that’s all we know"

Émile stared at him, then nodded It was unusual not to identify a murder victim but not unheard of, particularly one who so clearly didn’t want to be identified

The tworoom with its wall of exposed stone, open plan kitchen and aroetables After dinner they bundled up, put Henri on a leash and headed into the bitterly cold night Their feet crunching on the hard snow, they joined the crowds heading out the great stone archway through the wall, to Place d’Youville and the cere the Carnaval de Québec

In the midst of the festivities, as fiddlers saay and kids skated and the fireworks lit the sky over the old city Émile turned to Gamache