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"Unless it was to save even ested Gamache

"Maybe that’s what oldGah to be your father I wish I was Perhaps you’d trust randson?"

When Rosenblatt didn’t answer, Gamache nodded

"Fictitious?"

"I find people are less suspicious of grandfathers," Rosenblatt admitted "So I created David But I’ve spoken of him so often, I can almost see him He’s skinny and dark-haired and sive him behind his mother’s back Some days he’s more real to me than people who actually exist"

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"I knoorked with Gerald Bull," said Gamache "I knoas here in Three Pines I knoas in Brussels with Dr Bull and Guillaume Couture And I know he killed Gerald Bull But I also believe it was not his idea"

Garaph of the three men, the unholy trinity

"I showed this to you once before There’s Dr Bull, Dr Couture, and John Fle But someone else was there that day, wasn’t there? The person who took this picture and ordered the death of Gerald Bull"

"It wasn’t me"

"Maybe Maybe not"

"It doesn’t o It’s done"

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"You an

"I don’t need justifications, I need clear answers Who was there that day? Who took this picture? Was it you? Who’s behind all this?"