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"It would explain why Chaiven a royal title, why he was never officially recognized as the Governor of Québec Why he was never honored for his accomplishments, while others were honored for much less That’s always been a mystery And maybe it explains why he was sent here in the first place It was considered aluenot, was expendable"

"Would the Jesuits have known?" one of the technicians asked It was a question that had puzzled Gamache as well The Catholic Church played a powerful role in the establish the colonists in line

The Jesuits were not fa "They must have Otherwise they’d have buried him in the Catholic cemetery, not outside it"

"But surely the Jesuits would never have allowed hiuenot bible, still in Croix’s grip

"True But someone must have known," said Croix "There’re all sorts of eyewitness accounts of Cha buried in the chapel, a chapel he himself had supported Left half his ist stopped, but they could see his

"Could that be it? Was the money a bribe? Did he leave half his fortune to the church here so they’d give him a public burial in the chapel then later, let him be reburied beyond the Catholic cemetery, in a field? With this?" He held up the bible

Ga up in the dead of night, his reround, and beyond

Why? Because he was a Protestant All his deeds, all his courage, all his vision and deter In death he was only one thing

A Huguenot An outsider, in a country he’d created, a world he’d built Samuel de Champlain, the huround unblessed, but unble it would be different? Gamache wondered Only to find the New World exactly like the Old, only colder

Samuel de Champlain had lain in his lead-lined coffin with his bible until two Irish workers, living in squalor and despair had dug him up He’d made their fortune One, O’Mara, had left the city The other, Patrick, had left lower Québec, buying a ho the affluent

Had he been happier there?