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"Just about," said Clara

Beauvoir shook his head Still, it wasn’t perhaps unexpected, nor was it necessarily a bad thing Myrna had helped the Chief in the past and while Beauvoir had never, until noanted to ask for help froive And now he had no choice

"So what do you think?" he asked

"I’d like to hearnew?"

He told them about his conversation with Gamache and what the chief had found out in Quebec City about Old Mundin’s family and Carole Gilbert

"Woloshyn?" Clara repeated "Woo?"

"Perhaps," Beauvoir nodded

"The inn and spa has a lot of antiques," said Myrna "Could they have found them on rue Notre-Dame?"

"In the sas?" said Beauvoir "You’re thinking if they went in, they nized some of Olivier’s items?"

"Exactly," said Myrna "All Carole Gilbert would have to do is casually ask how the owner got them He would have directed her to Olivier and Three Pines, and voilà"

"No, it doesn’t work," said Beauvoir

"Of course it does It’s perfect," said Clara

"Think about it," Beauvoir turned to her "Olivier sold those things to the antique shop years ago If Carole Gilbert found them why’d they wait almost ten years to buy the old Hadley house?"

The three sat there, thinking Eventually Clara and Myrna started batting around other theories, but Beauvoir rehts