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"What do you want?" Gaive it to ht I was so for all these years Someone who terrifies you"

He looked at the black-and-white photo of the fathers of Project Babylon Two dead men and one imprisoned for life But there had been someone else in Brussels that day, Gamache realized There had to have been

"Who took the picture?" he asked

Fle leaned back and folded his arers were closed tight around the bones of his arms The sardonic s

"You helped create Project Babylon," Gamache pressed "On the orders of someone anted you to keep an eye on Gerald Bull The saraph Who was there with you all in Brussels But you lied to thehwater, but not the other You killed Bull when he got too dangerous, started talking, starting hinting there was another gun Then you stole the plans and hid them Believe me, John, you don’t want freedom You wouldn’t live a day outside these walls You’re a polio victi"

"You think they’d harht’ve made my own Whore of Babylon, but they made me They need me to do what they will not"

"They don’t need you You’ve been discarded, left here to rot"

"Howwith a grin, and Gamache could almost smell the decay "If I’m the child, what ine the taproot"

The words seemed whispered directly into Gamache’s ear, on war under the sun Isn’t that what you believe?" Fleo back to your pretty little village with all those hiding places and think about that And then I want you to coeddon, and then disappear Never bother you again You said I’ve been waiting for so for you"

Gaot up It was over

CHAPTER 37

Jean-Guy wanted to say so, but couldn’t find any words that would make this better And so he just drove while Gamache stared out the

The Chief had once told hiorillas when faced with an attack Theydown the eneorilla beside the his eyes on the road, Jean-Guy reached out and touched Gamache’s shoulder