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"Hht "What does that tell you?"

Alain Doucet looked surprised He had clearly thought nothing of it but now he did

"Well, I guess it ht there ht the first couple boxes in the summer, ait until after Christmas to contact you?"

"He’s probably like h theets around to it"

Ga the rabbit warren that was Renaud’s ho to you?" He showed Doucet the catalog numbers found in Renaud’s diary 9-8499 and 9-8572

"No, but used books cos written on thenatures Screws up their value, unless the signature is Beaudelaire or Proust"

"How’d he seem when he came by for the other lot?"

"Renaud? As always Brusque, anxious He was like an addict before a fix Book freaks are like that, and not just old guys Look at kids lining up for the latest installment of their favorite books Stories, they’re addictive"

Gaustin Renaud stumbled on? And where were the two books? Not in his apartment, not on his body And what happened to the other books in the lot? They weren’t in the apart any books back?"

Doucet shook his head "But you ht ask the other used bookstores I knoent to all of us"

"I’ve asked You’re the last, and the only one who bought the Literary and Historical Society books"

"Only one stupid enough to try to sell English books in old Quebec City"

The Chief’s phone vibrated and he took it out It was a call from Émile

"Do you mind?" he asked and Doucet shook his head "Salut, É place I can’t believe I’ve never been before Can you ?"