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"Yes But I really can’t tell you more I’m sorry"

"You can’t, or you won’t?" asked Clara

"You’re friends with Monsieur Gamache, why don’t you ask him?"

Myrna set me in trouble, ladies?" It was said with a on his part

"You know so, don’t you?" said Myrna "When Isabelle Lacoste told us about Antoinette you said soh beast, and Bethlehe what your friend Ruth had written in her notebook"

"It’s a quote, right?" said Myrna

"I believe so," said Rosenblatt "Shakespeare probably Isn’t everything? Or the Bible"

"Itto you, for you to not just read what Ruth had written, but to say it out loud," said Clara "You ether and lowered his head, either in thought or against the particularly violent gust that hit them

"I don’t knohat’s confidential and what’s public knowledge" His words hipped away as soon as they were out of his h to catch the some decision

"I was at your solo show, you know, at the Musée d’art conteht what you did with portraits was brilliant You reinvented the fororated it Gave it depth and a kind of joyful spiritin most works today"

"Thank you," said Clara

"You obviously know that art has power," he said "It can be freeing, but it can also be a weapon, especially when co equally powerful, like war Art’s been used to inspire all sorts of things Public statues of brave soldiers Paintings of heroic sacrifice But it’s also been used to put the fear of God into ene me this?" Clara asked

"Because you’ve been kind toa terrible situation even worse I can’t show you the gun or talk about it really, and I doubt it would help even if I could, but there is soht even be able to help with"

He brought out his iPhone, tapped the screen, then handed it to her