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"It's this side, sir"

"What tiht?"

"About quarter-past seven, I should say, sir"

"And when did you take it into Mrs Inglethorp's rooht o'clock Mrs Inglethorp came up to bed before I'd finished"

"Then, between 715 and 8 o'clock, the coco was standing on the table in the left wing?"

"Yes, sir" Annie had been growing redder and redder in the face, and now she blurted out unexpectedly: "And if there was salt in it, sir, it wasn't me I never took the salt near it"

"What makes you think there was salt in it?" asked Poirot

"Seeing it on the tray, sir"

"You saw some salt on the tray?"

"Yes Coarse kitchen salt, it looked I never noticed it when I took the tray up, but when I came to take it into the ht to have taken it down again, and asked Cook to make some fresh But I was in a hurry, because Dorcas was out, and I thought one on the tray So I dusted it off with my apron, and took it in"

I had the ut my excitement Unknown to herself, Annie had provided us with an iaped if she had realized that her "coarse kitchen salt" was strychnine, one of the most deadly poisons known to mankind II awaited his next question with impatience, but it disappointed lethorp's roo into Miss Cynthia's room bolted?"

"Oh! Yes, sir; it alas It had never been opened"

"And the door into Mr Inglethorp's room? Did you notice if that was bolted too?"

Annie hesitated

"I couldn't rightly say, sir; it was shut but I couldn't say whether it was bolted or not"

"When you finally left the roolethorp bolt the door after you?"

"No, sir, not then, but I expect she did later She usually did lock it at night The door into the passage, that is"

"Did you notice any candle grease on the floor when you did the roolethorp didn't have a candle, only a reading-lamp"