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Émile stared "I’ain"
"It already has," said Ga down a hundred dollars for the water and the use of the quiet table by the fireplace "What did Augustin Renaud say to you?"
Éot to his feet too "What do you mean?"
"SC in Renaud’s journals I’d taken it to e Croix Ahe’d neverSC was the Société Cha was for today at one Why did he want to meet the Society?"
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Ga corridor, his phone buzzing again and his heart pounding
"Wait, Ar the calls Then he remembered what É wipe everything else out?
That was the danger Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good That we could forget the good and only remeht Renaud wanted toup to Gamache as he retrieved his parka fro ouldn’t like but he illing to bury, if we gave him what he wanted"
"And as that?"
"He wanted to join the Société and have all the credibility that ith it And when the coffin was found he wanted us to ad"
"That was all?"
"That’s it"
"And did you give it to him?"
Émile shook his head "We decided not to meet him No one believed he’d actually found Cha It was felt that having Augustin Renaud in the Société would cheapen it He was blackballed"
"An elderlyacceptance, just acceptance, and you turn him away?"
"I’m not proud of it That’s e needed to discuss privately I wanted the and said if they didn’t I would I’m so sorry Armand I made a mistake It’s just that I knew it couldn’t ation No one believed Renaud No one"
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