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"Well----" I considered "One ically"

"True"

"I should put it this way The doors were bolted--our own eyes have told us that--yet the presence of the candle grease on the floor, and the destruction of the will, prove that during the night soree so far?"

"Perfectly Put with aded, "as the person who entered did not do so by the , nor by miraculous means, it follows that the door lethorp herself That strengthens the conviction that the person in question was her husband She would naturally open the door to her own husband"

Poirot shook his head

"Why should she? She had bolted the door leading into his roo on her part--she had had a most violent quarrel with him that very afternoon No, he was the last person she would adree with lethorp herself?"

"There is another possibility She e when she went to bed, and have got up later, towards , and bolted it then"

"Poirot, is that seriously your opinion?"

"No, I do not say it is so, but it ht be Now, to turn to another feature, what do you make of the scrap of conversation you overheard between Mrs Cavendish and her htfully "That is as enigmatical as ever It seems incredible that a woree, should interfere so violently in as certainly not her affair"

"Precisely It was an astonishing thing for a woreed "Still, it is uniroan burst fro must be taken into account If the fact will not fit the theory--let the theory go"

"Well, we shall see," I said, nettled

"Yes, we shall see"

We had reached Leastways Cottage, and Poirot ushered me upstairs to his own rooarettes he himself occasionally smoked I was amused to notice that he stoay the used matches most carefully in a little china pot My momentary annoyance vanished