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"Do you mind?" he asked Reine-Marie

As he left, he heard Clara ask his wife, "So, did he tell you what they found?"

Ruth opened her worn and dog-eared notebook to the page she’d been reading before Monsieur Béliveau arrived

He’d gone now, back to the bistro She’d promised to join hi existed for Ruth For Three Pines For anyone

She sht for a et over it

Count your blessings Better than that,

buy a hat Buy a coat or pet

Ruth looked over at Rosa, snoring in her flannel nest It sounded like et

CHAPTER 10

The Sûreté Incident Rooain been set up in what had been the railway station, before it was abandoned and put to other use The long, low brick building across the Rivière Bella Bella froe was the hoade, of which Ruth Zardo was the chief, being faured, with hellfire

And noas being put to an even more dire use

The old railway station was alive with activity as technicians and agents set up the equipate a modern murder Desks, computers, printers, scanners Telephone lines Lots of those Since the village was so deep in the valley, no high-speed Internet, or even satellite signal, reached it They had to resort to dial-up

It was infuriating, frustrating, grindingly slow But it was better than nothing

Ar in the disarray In his late fifties now, he’d started at the Sûreté when there weren’t even faxes, just teletypewith Gaations They found theerprints, and no way to transmit the information