From the cab, Billy Williams watched Jean-Guy pace. He knew torment when he saw it. Then he looked over at Armand. Standing right up against Carl Tracey. Not side by side but facing him, in an act of extreme and ghastly intimacy. Billy Williams knew that what he was witnessing was also an act of love. Not for Tracey, of course, but for Jean-Guy. Armand had sent the younger man away to, on the surface, do the worst job. To look for the body of a young woman and her unborn child. But in reality, Armand was saving Jean-Guy. From himself. Gamache was standing that close to Carl Tracey so that
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