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"Not earlier? Couldn't it have been about half-past three?"

"No, I shouldn't say so, sir It would be more likely to be a bit after four--not before it"

"Thank you, Manning, that will do," said Poirot pleasantly

The gardener glanced at his er to his forehead with a low mumble, and backed cautiously out of the

We all looked at each other

"Good heavens!" murmured John "What an extraordinary coincidence"

"How--a coincidence?"

"That my mother should have made a will on the very day of her death!"

Mr Wells cleared his throat and remarked drily: "Are you so sure it is a coincidence, Cavendish?"

"What do you mean?"

"Your mother, you tell me, had a violent quarrel with-- some one yesterday afternoon----"

"What do you ain There was a treone very pale

"In consequence of that quarrel, your mother very suddenly and hurriedly makes a neill The contents of that e shall never know She told no one of its provisions This , no doubt, she would have consulted me on the subject--but she had no chance The will disappears, and she takes its secret with her to her grave Cavendish, I much fear there is no coincidence there Monsieur Poirot, I aestive"

"Suggestive, or not," interrupted John, "we arethe matter But for him, we should never have known of this will I suppose, I may not ask you, monsieur, what first led you to suspect the fact?"