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Poirot nodded thoughtfully

"I see But I alish law that as autolethorp remarried?"

Mr Wells bowed his head

"As I was about to proceed, Monsieur Poirot, that document is now null and void"

"Hein!" said Poirot He reflected for a lethorp herself aware of that fact?"

"I do not know She may have been"

"She was," said John unexpectedly "We were discussing the e only yesterday"

"Ah! One more question, Mr Wells You say 'her last will' Had Mrs Inglethorp, then, made several former wills?"

"On an average, she made a neill at least once a year," said Mr Wells i herone, now another ested Poirot, "that, unknown to you, she had made a neill in favour of some one as not, in any sense of the word, a member of the family--ill say Miss Howard, for instance--would you be surprised?"

"Not in the least"

"Ah!" Poirot seemed to have exhausted his questions

I drew close to hioing through Mrs Inglethorp's papers