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Where to go?

To a place already sullied beyond redeh the only place that came to un designed to kill en masse had sat for decades But there were too many people and he didn’t want to have to explain himself

So if not a place that was damned, there was only the alternative The divine A place that could withstand the onslaught of John Flee They climbed the stairs to the doors of the old chapel, always unlocked, and stepped inside

No one was in St Thomas’s Church but it didn’t feel elass boys, there in perpetuity Soo up to St Thomas’s just to visit them

He sat now on the comfortably cushioned pew and put the play on his lap Henri lay at Gamache’s feet, his head on his paws

The two of them looked at the , created at the end of the Great War It showed soldiers, ih no-ht thrown by their ie

This place was sacred, he knew, not because it was a church but because of those boys

He felt the weight of the script on his legs, and the weight of , down until the script felt like a slab of concrete, pinning hiain the testi And seen what he’d done And Arraphs from the crime scene Of the demon another demon had created

The seven-headed old light spilling froe, took a breath, and opened the script

CHAPTER 14

"I see you’re back Do you mind if I join you?"

Jean-Guy Beauvoir sat down across from Professor Rosenblatt at the bistro The elderly scientist s the coht I’d come over for lunch," said Professor Rosenblatt

"You’reat the open notebook "On the gun?"

"Yes And trying to re character"

"I see you also stopped by the bookstore"

A slim volume sat on the table between them

"I did Wonderful place I can’t resist a bookstore, especially a secondhand one I found this"