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Chief Inspector Gamache had taken the old telephone receiver off its cradle, unscrewed the lower section, removed the voice disc, and hooked directly into the line

"You hot-wired the phone?" she’d asked

"Kind of," he’d said And then he’d taught her how to do it

"It h back then," she’d said "When this was all you had"

"It gave us more time to think," he’d explained

And then they’d sat by the woodstove, and they’d thought And by the tied its way back down the phone line, they’d all but solved the case

And now she was the Chief Inspector And she looked at all the technology being installed, in the absolute certainty it was crucial to solving the case

But she knew differently And Jean-Guy Beauvoir knew differently

And the man who’d just arrived knew differently

"Thank you for coh the boxes and wires

"Anytime," said Gamache "How can I help?"

She indicated the conference table, set up at the far end of the old railway station

"It’s time for a think," she said, and saw him smile

She hesitated by the chair at the head of the conference table This ard Every other time they’d sat there, Chief Inspector Gah, he walked right by it and sat to her left Leaving Inspector Beauvoir to sit on her right-hand side

Armand Gamache knew his place Had, in fact, chosen it

"So, this is e know," said Lacoste "We have a un hidden in the forest and a boy as killed there and then his body moved You knew Laurent better than we did," Lacoste said to Gamache "What do you think happened?"

"Well, he obviously found the gun," said Ga anyone about it"

"But he’d already told lots of people," said Jean-Guy "All of us, for a start Everyone in the bistro that afternoon heard him"

"Maybe the murderer didn’t realize that," said Gamache "Maybe he wasn’t in the bistro when Laurent ca in"

"So you think after he left us, he told someone else?" asked Lacoste "Someone who killed him to keep him quiet"

Gamache nodded "It’s also possible he went back there on his own and interrupted soh the site seems abandoned"