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"They refused, insisting on one thousand dollars each, and they got it but only after Douglas had secured their pledge of secrecy and found out where they lived The Irishlish, also feared them They knehat lay behind the civilized veneer They knehat an Englishreed, then carried the coffin to the basenored it

"How do you know all this?" someone asked

"Because I found this"

Gamache bent down to his satchel and removed a black leather book As he held it he looked at É else Was that a sriustin Renaud found it and recognizing its significance he hid it"

"Where was it?" Émile asked

"The library of the Literary and Historical Society," said Gaustin Renaud hid the journal in a library?" asked René Dallaire

"No," clarified Ga us all this?" Jean Ha next to René Dallaire as always, asked

"I think you knohy," said Ga the man directly in the eyes until Hamel lowered his

"Where did you say the Irish workers were digging?" a member asked

"I didn’t, but I can tell you It was under the Old Horew very quiet Everyone stared at Gamache

"You found the other book, didn’t you," said Émile into the silence

"I did"

Gamache reached into the satchel, now on his lap The satchel he’d spent the last few hours protecting

"Last year the Literary and Historical Society sold a number of boxes of books, boxes they hadn’t bothered to exaht some of them When he went to see what he had he found they were from the collection of Father Charles Chiniquy Not very pro, for a Chaht some harrumphs