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"Yes?"

"Brian said it was by John Fle him "He shouldn’t have said that"

"But he did Why do you want to keep it a secret?"

"Like I said,we can to pique interest"

"A secret playwright is hardly going to get camera crews out"

"Not at first, maybe But the play’s not your run-of-the-mill work by an unknown, Armand It’s brilliant I’ve done professional and a the best"

"For an amateur," said Gamache

"For anyone Wait until you see it I’d put it beside Miller and Stoppard and Tremblay It’s Our Town meets The Crucible"

Gamache was used to hyperbole, especially from people in the theater, so this didn’t surprise hi the quality of the work," he said, lowering his voice so that it was barely audible above the crackle of the fire as it caught the dry wood "I’ht"

"I can’t tell you anything about him"

"Have you met him?" Gamache asked

Antoinette hesitated "No Brian found the script a my uncle’s papers after he died"

"Why did you white out the playwright’s name?"

"I told you I wanted to create a buzz Once the play opens everyone’s going to want to knorote it"

"And what’ll you tell them?"

Now Antoinette looked decidedly tense

"Who wrote She Sat Down and Wept?" Gamache asked, his voice low