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"Pardon lethorp, "you have been misinformed I had no quarrel with my dear wife The whole story is absolutely untrue I was absent from the house the entire afternoon"

"Have you anyone who can testify to that?"

"You have htily

The Coroner did not trouble to reply

"There are titnesses ill swear to having heard your disagreelethorp"

"Those witnesses were mistaken"

I was puzzled The ered I looked at Poirot There was an expression of exultation on his face which I could not understand Was he at last convinced of Alfred Inglethorp's guilt?

"Mr Inglethorp," said the Coroner, "you have heard your wife's dying words repeated here Can you explain them in any way?"

"Certainly I can"

"You can?"

"It seehted Dr Bauerstein is ht and build, and, likeas she was, my poor wife mistook him for me"

"Ah!" murmured Poirot to himself "But it is an idea, that!"

"You think it is true?" I whispered

"I do not say that But it is truly an ingenious supposition"