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Francoeur was tree, his voice almost a scream

Gamache waited In his peripheral vision he could see the clock, ticking down

"Magog In an abandoned factory Agent Nichol and Inspector Beauvoir found hi to the spaces betords they’d found hi you If I’ I’ll bring you up on charges"

Francoeur walked out of the office, out of the incident roolanced at the clock as he made for the door One hour and forty-one minutes left And Armand Gamache prayed, not for the first time that day, or the last

"It could’ve been worse," said Émile "I mean, who knoho made this video? They could’ve made the entire operation look like a catastrophe But it doesn’t Tragic, yes Terrible But in many ways heroic If the families have to watch, well"

Ga to say the editing could haveidiot Could have looked like those who died had squandered their lives Instead everyone had looked courageous What was the word Émile used?

Heroic

Gamache slowly climbed the steep stairs, Henri at his heels

Well, he knew so Émile didn’t He suspected who had made the video And he knehy

Not to ood So good the Chief would feel as he did A fraud A fake Lionized for nothing Four Sûreté officers dead and Armand Gamache the hero

Whoever had done this knew him well And kne to exact a price

In shame

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