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"I think it’s possible they knew each other, had communicated I think it’s possible Captain Cook, as the ainville in exchange for a favor"

"A hesitation A pause," said Mr Blake "It wouldn’t see Général Montcalainville get?"

"Perhaps Cook pointed him toward the West Indies Perhaps Cook turned his own blind eye and let Bougainville ate some important places I don’t know That’s why I’ and it really was just a coincidence"

"But it passes the ti"

Avec le teht Gamache "And you?" he asked the elderly rasses "Ironically, now that I’m so near the end of my life I seem to have all the ti to feign interest Reading this would certainly make an hour seem an eternity It would stretch, if not actually waste, tied and so obscure it al It was printed in 1845

And there was so else, another number partly hidden beneath the library card

"Do you knohat this is?" He got up and showed it to Mr Blake who shrugged

"They’re not important This is the one that counts" Mr Blake pointed to the Dewey Deci number

"Still, I’d like to see the numbers underneath" Gaet Winnie," said Mr Blake

"Good idea"

Mr Blake picked up the phone and within minutes the librarian, tiny and suspicious, had arrived After it was explained she turned to the Chief Inspector "All right, coh the corridors, twisting and turning, up soe back office Porter Wilson was there as was Elizabeth MacWhirter