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Each day, when the door had been unlocked and he’d been allowed out, Armand had returned to his office at Sûreté headquarters in Montréal and stared out theat the people below Waiting for lights to change Going for drinks, or to the dentist Thinking about groceries, and bills, and the boss

They didn’t know They read the newspapers and saw the television reports on the trial and thought Fle a monster But they didn’t know the half of it

Are who’d had the courage to enact that most extreme of clauses And he wondered if the courtroom had been scrubbed dohen it was over Disinfected Burned to the ground

Or had they sione back to their lives and, in the nighttime, in the darkness, had they prayed to a God they hoped was powerful, to forget? Prayed for dreamless sleep Prayed to turn back the clocks to a tie wasn’t always power Soested therapy could, over ti of his demons But Ar was the deed to escape He’d slid out between the bars In the forain

He’d come to play

CHAPTER 5

"What do you want?" Antoinette called into the darkness

She stood on the brightly lit stage, her hand to her forehead, peering like afor land

"To talk to you," came Arh, don’t you?"

Brian ca to?"

Are "Me Salut, Brian"

"Are you happy?" Antoinette de over to him "Myrna and Gabri have quit Brian here has to take over Gabri’s lead role--"

"I do?"

"A play’s hard enough to put on without actors dropping out," she said

"You’re going on with the production then?" Gamache asked