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"Over there," she pointed "By the boys"

"The boys," the soldiers of the Great War, who lived forever in the stained-glassThey h lories of war They were young and they were far fro ation And on his face, alongside the terror, was soiveness

Beneath the ere written the names of the dead from Three Pines The boys ould never return to the old railway station, to the parents aited

And under their naht pouring through their bodies And wept

And when she left? Someone came out of the shadows

Gamache dropped to his knees and pushed the pew to one side Beauvoir joined hi up the ooden floorboards

And there, in a longfor The plans for Areddon hidden in the chapel of St Thomas The doubter

Gamache looked at his watch It was six o’clock

CHAPTER 41

"Good evening, I’m Susan Bonner and this is the World at Six"

Ada in his ears

"Our top story tonight, an astonishing find in Québec’s Eastern Townships"

He checked his device All electronics were blocked inside the penitentiary, but there was a code the guards used and Cohen had prograes

Closing his eyes for just a ot out of the car and walked, resolutely, toward the small door in the thick wall

"Our top story tonight, an astonishing find in Québec’s Eastern Townships"

"Merde," said Isabelle Lacoste The broadcast streamed over her laptop in the Incident Rooht The CBC did not yet know the exact location of Gerald Bull’s Supergun, but they’d narrowed it down to this region