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"Only her powders?"

The flush deepened as Cynthia replied: "Oh, yes, I didpowders for her once"

"These?"

Poirot produced the empty box which had contained powders

She nodded

"Can you tell me what they were? Sulphonal? Veronal?"

"No, they were bro"

As alked briskly away frolanced at hi excited hi like emeralds now

"My friend," he broke out at last, "I have a little idea, a very strange, and probably utterly ied ht that Poirot was rather too iven to these fantastic ideas In this case, surely, the truth was only too plain and apparent

"So that is the explanation of the blank label on the box," I remarked "Very simple, as you said I really wonder that I did not think of itto me

"They havehis thumb over his shoulder in the direction of Styles "Mr Wells toldupstairs"