Chapter 26
Chapter 26Michel spent the morning cleaning his small apartment. He was very thorough, taking books off the bookshelf and dusting each one before putting it back on a clean shelf. Everything under the bed was pulled out and dusted as well, and the two windows opened despite the cold to freshen the air in his one-room-with-kitchenette. When there was nothing left to straighten or clean, he put on his thin coat and a scarf and went for a walk. He wandered aimlessly through Castillac, but the Desrosiers mansion exerted magnetic force on him, pulling him closer when he had had no thought of going anywhere near it. He cut through an alley to get there more quickly, then jumped over a fence and trotted through someone’s yard. The streets were relatively crowded with people walking home from the
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