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She looked at Chief Inspector Ga’s reat fall"

"You lied to us," said the Chief

"I did" She looked directly into his eyes

"Suzanne" The Chief Justice placed a hand on her ar to tell them the truth, you know that It’s just a shame they came for me first, before I had a chance to volunteer it"

"You had plenty of chances," said Beauvoir

Pineault jerked, springing to her defense, but contained hi the truth," said Brian

Everyone turned to hily young, re them that beneath the ink and torn skin was a boy

"Suzanne asked Thierry and me to join her for dinner To talk," said Brian "She told us all about that" He gestured an inked hand casually toward the article "And said she was going to speak to you first thing in theto hear this tattooed, pierced kid call the Chief Justice by his first name Gamache looked at Pineault and couldn’t decide if he ad man, or felt he’d lost all sense

What other ?

The Chief Inspector turned experienced eyes on Brian The young h? Gamache wondered He certainly seemed removed from the situation Not a above it

"And what did you tell her?" asked Beauvoir, keeping his eye on Brian He’d met punks like this before, and it rarely ended well

"I was torn," adet a lawyer, who’d probably tell her to keep quiet Not volunteer inforht she should tell the truth immediately"

"And on?" asked Beauvoir

"Your people arrived before I could say anything"