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They glared at each other

"I didn’t arrange to meet him, and I certainly didn’t kill him"

"Do you knohere Champlain is buried?" Gamache asked

"What did you just ask?"

"Do you knohere Samuel de Champlain is buried?"

"What do you mean by that?" Croix’s voice was low and his look filthy

"You knohat I mean The question is clear"

"You think I knohere Cha it a secret?"

Croix invested each and every word, every syllable, with scorn

"I think it’s almost inconceivable that we knohere minor clerics, where war heroes, where far his eyes off the archeologist "But not the founder of this country, the father of this country I think you and the archeological establishustin Renaud, not because he was so laughable, but because he wasn’t Was he getting close? Had he actually found Chareatest archeological find in the nation? It would make my career, ave the Québécois the one piece , inal church burned, documents burned--"

"I know the official history but that doesn’t explain it and you know that Why hasn’t his body been found? It makes no sense So I ask myself the other question Not why hasn’t he been found, but suppose he has? Why cover it up?" Gaist with each word until they were almost nose to nose And Gamache whispered, "To the point of murder"

They stared and finally Croix leaned back

"Why would someone want to do that?" asked Croix

"There’s only one reason, isn’t there," said Gamache "Champlain wasn’t what he seereat reatness of the Québécois, a potent syht have been, had the English not taken over Chalish, derided them as brutes On every level Champlain is the perfect tool for Québec separatists But suppose this wasn’t true?"