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Jean-Guy stood up suddenly His face was contorted with rage and he looked about to pour it all over Lepage, but instead he walked swiftly, unsteadily away, knocking over a wastepaper basket and banging into a desk before e lifted his eyes from the screen and looked at Gamache

"But I didn’t"

CHAPTER 35

After an all but silent dinner, Ar the door

Jean-Guy and Reine-Marie sat in the living rooentle heat

They exchanged pleasantries, but Reine-Marie had been around hoh to know there was a time to talk and a ti

"He’s on the phone," said Jean-Guy, putting down the newspaper

"I hope so," said Reine-Marie and saw her coht? You both looked a little pale when you cas you never really want to know," he said "And can never forget"

She nodded Jean-Guy had called Annie as soon as he’d arrived back, and Ar had happened She knew Armand would tell her about it, if not today then one day Or o into that locked and bolted room

"Pardon," said Jean-Guy a few minutes later, when they could hear nofor a reply he went in

"Chief?" he said, closing the door behind hie, comfortable chair by the desk, a file box open on the floor and a dossier on his lap The bookcase behind hiraphs of the fah, had been taken down and was now in Ga silver frarandchildren, Florence and Zora

Ga the picture, the other up to his face, gripping his face Trying to hold the wretched, wrenching feelings in But they escaped through his eyes Leaving theently, and then he squeezed his eyes tight shut

Jean-Guy sat heavily in the armchair across from hirief

The twotied gasp for breath

Finally Beauvoir heard the faed from the box