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He had helped her then And she helped hient Lacoste’s reports started to foreneration on the reserves without hope Drunk and high and lost With no life and no future and nothing to lose It had all been taken This Gamache already knew Anyone with the sto he didn’t know Lacoste had reports of outsiders arriving, teachers White teachers, English teachers Insinuating themselves into the coenuine, but a few had an agenda that went far beyond any alphabet or times table Their curriculum would take ti ry for approval, acceptance, kindness, leadership And the teachers had given them all that Years it had taken to win their trust Over those years the teachers taught them how to read and write, how to add and subtract And how to hate They’d also taught their students that they need not be victi Cree had toyed with the attractive idea, finally rejecting it Sensing these were sithelory Convinced the world would finally take notice

At 11:18

The La Grande da Cree ent would be executed

Arain, to Chief Superintendent Francoeur But when Francoeur had again balked, instead of reasoning with the man Gamache had allowed his teerous Chief Superintendent to show

That had been a mistake It had cost him time And maybe more

"What happened?"

Armand Gamache looked over, alhts

"A decision had to be ent Lacoste’s inforent Morin Our efforts had to go into stopping the bo If we tried to save Morin the boht move sooner No one could risk that"

"Not even you?"

Ga time There was no sound outside or inside How ainst a violent world? A world not as kind, not as good, not as warm as they wished How e? Wondering when it o out Into the world

"God helpto let him die?"

"If need be" Gamache stared at Hancock, not defiantly but with a kind of wonder that decisions like that needed to be "

"You finally convinced the Chief Superintendent?"

Gao"