The Sûreté team spent the morning in the Incident Room, set up in the Canadian National Railway station. The low brick building, a century old, sat across the Rivière Bella Bella from Three Pines. The building was abandoned, the trains having simply stopped stopping there decades earlier. No explanation. For a while the trains still chugged by, winding through the valley and between the mountains. And disappearing around a bend. And then, one day, even they stopped. No twelve o’clock express. No three P.M. milk run into Vermont. Nothing for the villagers to set their clocks by. And so both the
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