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"To sign a paper? No, sir"

"When Mr Hastings and Mr Lawrence ca letters I suppose you can give me no idea to whom these letters were addressed?"

"I' Perhaps Annie could tell you, though she's a careless girl Never cleared the coffee-cups away last night That's what happens when I's"

Poirot lifted his hand

"Since they have been left, Dorcas, leave theer, I pray you I should like to exao out last evening?"

"About six o'clock, sir"

"Thank you, Dorcas, that is all I have to ask you" He rose and strolled to the"I have been adardeners are employed here, by the way?"

"Only three now, sir Five, we had, before the hen it was kept as a gentleman's place should be I wish you could have seen it then, sir A fair sight it was But now there's only old Manning, and young Williaardener in breeches and such-like Ah, these are dreadful tiain, Dorcas At least, we hope so Noill you send Annie to me here?"

"Yes, sir Thank you, sir"

"How did you know that Mrs Inglethorp took sleeping powders?" I asked, in lively curiosity, as Dorcas left the roo at a ti powders, I knew by this" He suddenly produced a small cardboard box, such as chemists use for powders

"Where did you find it?"

"In the wash-stand drawer in Mrs Inglethorp's bedrooue"

"But I suppose, as the last poas taken two days ago, it is not ofthat strikes you as peculiar about this box?"

I examined it closely

"No, I can't say that I do"

"Look at the label"

I read the label carefully: " 'One powder to be taken at bedti unusual"

"Not the fact that there is no chemist's name?"

"Ah!" I exclaimed "To be sure, that is odd!"