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‘But we have her record book, Louis, and we now know how she used the glyphs. Hey, that's progress. Cheer up.'

‘We still don't know which glyph represents which name.'

‘Was Dédou the Archer?' asked Kohler.

‘Was the bishop the Goat, the Scorpion or the Cancer?'

‘Xavier must have tidied up, Louis. I'm certain of it.'

One of the bishop's hounds had been with the boy and must have come into the Palais with him, said St-Cyr to himself. She had known the dog and had removed its little bell so as to prevent its sound from giving away her position, but had broken a fingernail in the process …

‘Rivaille wanted her to move into the Villa Marenzio with the other singers,' said Kohler.

‘Then let us hear what they have to say. Let us listen to the madrigal of them.'

‘You're forgetting the sardines. You can't do that. Three tins, one of which she took with her.'

‘Along with a wealth of old coins, one of which held a maze,
mon ami
. A maze!'

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