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"I bought one of these for hter wasn’t i in public after that That child could pee for Canada"

He then picked up the desk set Taking out the pens, he studied theh the box until he found the bookends He turned one over, put it down and picked up the other By now Lacoste and Beauvoir had joined the elderly scientist, watching as he toyed with the ite to break his concentration

They watched as the professor manipulated the items, and then there was a s up the two pens, he inserted the it for a ht who’dit fro mechanism? I think so," said the professor, as astonished as everyone else "Ingenious"

Gamache stared at the piece in Lacoste’s hand while she turned it over and over and around It looked nothing like a pen set and bookend now Just as the pen set and bookend had looked nothing like a firing mechanism

"How did you know?" asked Beauvoir, taking it fro it

"I didn’t, I just tried A prerequisite for being a physicist, I think Good spatial reasoning But the first clue was the pens, of course"

"The pens?" asked Beauvoir

"They don’t work," Rosenblatt pointed out "No nibs They wouldn’t write"

Lacoste and Beauvoir looked at each other, then over at Ga mechanism in Beauvoir’s hand Then he dropped his eyes to the computer screen, where the poe a tableau, were the firing ’s play on Beauvoir’s desk, and the words on the coh beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards Bethlehe," Gamache said quietly as he and Rosenblatt took seats at the back of the bistro "Isn’t it?"

Around the waiters set the tables for the dinner service Out the , dying leaves shuffled in the wind and rain, and two chip it too? Ga of ti out

"Yes," said the old scientist He raised a hand and caught the attention of a server "Chocolat chaud, s’il vous plaît"