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car. She hoped he’d offer to drive her home. He did. But Tom Scott almost messed it all up. Tom heard Angela say her car had broken down, and he offered to drive her. She managed to put Tom off. When they got into Hill’s car, Mike was hiding in the back seat, and he strangled Hill. Mike was a big, strong guy, and Hill was older and slender. No match. Mike carried Hill through the woods, and together he and Angela got him into the tree.”
    “And threw him off,” said Dominique. “I can’t believe it of Angela. She seems so, I don’t know, young.”
    “Yes, she seems young, almost childlike,” said Gamache. “Then kind of thing can happen after a terrible event. She stayed the young girl she was when the accident happened. To grow up meant to be responsible. She couldn’t do that.”
    They sat quietly for a moment, sipping their drinks.
    “I should have seen it sooner,” Gamache said. “It would have been almost impossible for one person to lift Hill into that tree and hang him. The job took two people.”
    “What will happen to them now?” Dominique asked.
    “They’ll be tried for murder,” said Gamache. “Their lawyer will plead self-defence.”
    And he might even get them off, Gamache knew. But they would never be free.



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