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"It’s so beautiful," he said, alaze and looked at the cottages, the gardens, the three soaring evergreens on the village green And she knew those weren’t what e so attractive

Gabri came out of the bistro and headed to the B and B He spotted thee and waved Sarah stood at the door of her boulangerie and flapped a towel eh theof Myrna’s New and Used Bookstore

Isabelle suddenly felt horrible, for h

Ga mountains covered in a forest that had taken root thousands of years ago The brilliant autumn leaves interspersed with pines

"Look at it," he said, shaking his head slightly, aline the wildlife, the lives, going on in that forest I try to iine what it must’ve been like for the Abenaki, before the Europeans came Or for the first explorers Were they amazed by it? Or was it just an obstacle?"

He spent ahimself an early explorer

He’d have been amazed He was even now

"Not surprising the gun wasn’t found," he said "Even if you kneas there, and were looking for it, you’d probably never find it You could ithin a foot of the thing and still e to the vast forest

"What’s shocking is that it was found at all," he said

"What’s shocking is that it’s there," said Lacoste, and saw hi I asked Professor Rosenblatt about that"

He told her about the two theories put forward by the scientist That the Supergun was either a display model to show potential buyers, or it was placed deliberately to hit targets in the United States

"But either hy here?" she asked "Why not the forests of New Brunswick or Nova Scotia? Or so the US border? Why here?"

She pointed to the ground

Ar So time And then placed it Carefully Intentionally Here

"Three Pines isn’t on anyto hide soe would provide services and workers when needed"

"Except according to all our interviews, no local worked on the site," she said