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"Really?" she asked, trying not to s about hiuess we’re not all e seeh He identified the weapon iun?"

He’d wondered if she’d laugh Sitting in the warm and cheerful bistro, with fresh warm bread and parsnip and apple soup in front of theun" Like soh Instead she remembered, as he did every hour of every day, Laurent Alive And Laurent, dead Because of the thing in the woods Noremotely funny about it

"It was built by ahere?" she asked "Did Professor Rosenblatt know?"

Arestured out the"Maybe they can tell us"

Reine-Marie looked out and saw Lacoste and Beauvoir walking across the dirt road, to the path into the woods And with theers A man and a wouess, I’d say National Defence, or ested Reine-Marie

Once again, Jean-Guy Beauvoir attached the huge plug to the huge receptacle and heard the clunk as the huge floodlights caents and wasn’t disappointed

They’d gone fro their briefcases like co like two people who’d lost their minds

Their eyes fleide open, their mouths dropped, their heads in unison slowly, slowly tilted back And they stared up Up Had it been raining they would have drowned

"Holy shit," was all Sean Delorme could say "Holy shit"

"It’s real," said Mary Fraser "He did it He actually built it" She turned to Isabelle Lacoste, as standing beside her "Do you knohat this is?"

"It’s Gerald Bull’s Supergun"

"How did you know?"

"Michael Rosenblatt told us"

"Professor Rosenblatt?" asked Sean Delor "holy shit"

"Yes"

"How did he know?" said Delorme

"He’s seen it," said Beauvoir "He’s here"

"Of course he is," said Mary Fraser