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"Where did you find it?" He held it up

When Lacoste didn’t answer, he looked back down at the thing in his hand "Well, wherever it was, I’ trouble," Beauvoir repeated "Maybe that’s why it’s called Big Babylon"

"You think this is funny?" Mary Fraser asked in exactly the same clipped tone his teacher had used when he’d hit Gaston Devereau in the nose with a baseball All that wasman?"

"Do you knohat the bo Beauvoir’s i Boy killed hundreds of thousands Big Babylon would do worse Unlike you, Gerald Bull knew his history and knew his clients would too He also knew the power of sy a weapon evento belittle it"

"Proud tradition?" asked Lacoste

"Well, a long one"

Lacoste walked to the"If it’s so dangerous, why haven’t you called in the army? The air force?" She scanned the skies "There should be helicopters overhead and troops on the ground guarding the thing"

She turned back to the CSIS agents

"Where is everyone?" she asked

Sean Delorht be better not to advertise? The bigger the weapon, the greater the need for secrecy"

"The bigger the secret, the greater the danger," said Lacoste "Don’t you think?"

Ar onder

"Are you sure?"

"No, not really," Clara ado over there"

"You need to tell Chief Inspector Lacoste," said Gamache "She and Inspector Beauvoir are at the old train station Whatever happens, don’t tell anyone else Does Professor Rosenblatt know?"

"No It didn’t co with us?"