Boucher finished signing the last of the pages with an angry flourish and pitched the deposition onto Stanislas’s desk. He signed and handed it across to Christophe.
As his clerk began signing each page, Stanislas told Boucher he might contact him for a third hearing before any Confrontation and that he must remain in Paris until released.
“That purge, that trial,” Boucher said, “what the Resistance did to me was nothing but revenge. My family and I still suffer from their roughshod tactics.”
“However minor your role,” Stanislas said, “you were a careerist in an apparatus that did hateful things. Arrests based on anonymous letters. Detention without notifying family. Brutal interrogations. The firing squad. Gestapo methods. And some have never forgotten.”
“We were at war,” Boucher crie
