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"Well?" Gaun," said Michael Rosenblatt He watched Gamache as he spoke "You’re not surprised"

Ga to see what Rosenblatt would say, or do, next

"You went there, didn’t you?" said the scientist, once again fitting the pieces together "You already knew So why ask ain Rosenblatt put it together

"It was a test? You wanted to find out if I’d tell you the truth How did you even know I knew?"

"The redacted pages," said Armand at last "You read them but didn’t , except one reference Superguns Everyone else who read those pages saw it I couldn’t believe you didn’t too So ouldn’t you point it out? There was only one answer Because you already knew, and hoped I hadn’t seen it"

"Why wouldn’t I want you to know?"

"That’s a good question Why didn’t you tell us this as soon as you saw the gun in the woods? Didn’t you think it ht be important for us to know there’d once been another one, close by?"

Michael Rosenblatt took off his glasses and rubbed his face, then he replaced his glasses and looked at Ga you say it like that, I can see how it ht seem suspicious Not many knew about the other part of Project Babylon," said Michael Rosenblatt "The two halves were called Baby Babylon and Big Babylon"

"Two halves?" asked Gamache "Of a whole?"

"No, better to call them two parts, but not of a whole One led to the other The first was Baby Babylon, the shwater"

"Yes It was conceived by Gerald Bull through his Space Research Corporation Baby Babylon was a sort of open secret, like a lot of products in the arh to attract interest"

"And it did," said Gamache "Didn’t it?" he asked when Rosenblatt didn’t answer

"Of a sort Baby Babylon was e, so ungainly, unlike anything else out there, that it was dismissed as the product of a ineer or physicist thought it could be built And, if it was, it couldn’t possibly work Only another unstable mind would commission it"

"Saddam Hussein," said Gamache

"Yes The fact Saddam was interested just confirmed everyone’s suspicion that the idea was crazy"