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"Why did Augustin Renaud think anything? Has anyone ever figured out his logic? Perhaps his digs were ical and he’d come to the ‘Ls’ ThatPoor ht now it’s still a crime scene"

"Incredible," said Mr Blake, alustin Renaud be here in the Lit and His?"

"And ould solois

"Here," added Gamache

Finally Elizabeth MacWhirter entered and sat

"What is your job, exactly?" Langlois asked

"Well, ‘job’ is a loose terovernoes in to upkeep Heating alone is ruinous and we just had the wiring redone In fact, if it hadn’t been done we lois asked

"When ired the place we decided to do the phone lines too Bury them in the basement If the line hadn’t been cut we’d never have found the body, and he’d have been concreted over"

"Pardon?" asked Langlois

"Next week The concrete people are supposed to come on Monday to put down the forms"

The men looked at each other

"You mean, if either Renaud or his ht, the whole floor would have been concreted? Sealed?" asked the Inspector

Elizabeth nodded

"Who knew this was going to happen?" Langlois asked

"Everyone" She walked over to a table and returned with three pae, was the announce, telephones and base it on the table in front of him Chief Inspector Gamache looked at the slim elderly wo The tiht, Chief Inspector, but we didn’t keep the ti a secret Many people knew The board, the volunteers, the construction workers"

"Where’d you get the money for all this? It must have cost a fortune"

"It was expensive," she adrants and donations and sold some books"

"So the sale of books was fairly recent," said Langlois "But we heard from Monsieur Wilson that it wasn’t very successful"<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>