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Clara nodded

"I’d like to represent both you and Peter I’ tiuide your careers I think that’s iht is to build toward a solo show for each of you and then a coe of both your talents It would be thrilling The show of the year, of the decade Please consider it, that’s all I ask"

Clara nodded and watched Fortin leave

Inspector Beauvoir joined the Chief Inspector on the bridge

"Look at this" Beauvoir gave hi then quickly read down the page Stopping, as though hitting a wall, three quarters of the way down He lifted his eyes and

The Chief went back to the sheet, reading ht to the end

He didn’t want to , the way they ale back to Inspector Beauvoir "How did you find that?"

"I was going over the interviews and realized we ht not have talked to everyone at the party down here"

Ga "Good Excellent"

He looked toward the B and B, his arm extended "Shall we?"

A few ht, warm sunshine onto the cooler verandah Nore green Indeed, Gaht look sleepy, but Three Pines was in fact keenly aware of everything

The two artists looked up as they approached

"I wonder if I

"Of course," said Paulette

"Could you perhaps go for a walk around the village, or have a drink at the bistro? Onat first, then it clicked with Paulette Gathering up her book and a reat idea, don’t you, Normand?"

Normand looked like he’d just as soon stay where he was, in the co on the cool porch, with an old Paris Match and a lemonade Gaone

The two men waited until the artists ell out of ear-shot Then they turned to the third occupant of the verandah

Suzanne Coates sat in a rocking chair with a leazine she had her sketch pad on her lap

"Hello," she said, though she didn’t get up