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"No But it was strange that she never heard a sound, sleeping next door; whereas Mrs Cavendish, in the other wing of the building, distinctly heard the table fall"

"Well, she's young And she sleeps soundly"

"Ah, yes, indeed! She must be a famous sleeper, that one!"

I did not quite like the tone of his voice, but at thatout of the e perceived the two detectives waiting for us below

Poirot seized his hat, gave a ferocious twist to his inary speck of dust from his sleeve, motioned me to precede him down the stairs; there we joined the detectives and set out for Styles

I think the appearance of the two Scotland Yard h of course after the verdict, he had realized that it was only a ht the truth ho else could have done

Poirot had conferred with Japp in a low tone on the way up, and it was the latter functionary who requested that the household, with the exception of the servants, should be assenificance of this It was up to Poirot to uine Poirot lethorp's innocence, but a ible proofs, and these I doubted if Poirot could supply

Before very long we had all trooped into the drawing-room, the door of which Japp closed Poirot politely set chairs for every one The Scotland Yard men were the cynosure of all eyes I think that for the first tiible reality We had read of such things--noe ourselves were actors in the draland, would blazon out the news in staring headlines: "MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY IN ESSEX"

"WEALTHY LADY POISONED"

There would be pictures of Styles, snap-shots of "The farapher had not been idle! All the things that one had read a hundred tis that happen to other people, not to oneself And now, in this house, a murder had been coe of the case" The well-known glib phraseology passed rapidly through s