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"Oh, yes"

"You yourself did not happen to notice, lethorp's room, whether that door was bolted or not?"

"I--I believe it was"

"But you did not see it?"

"No I--never looked"

"But I did," interrupted Lawrence suddenly "I happened to notice that it was bolted"

"Ah, that settles it" And Poirot looked crestfallen

I could not help rejoicing that, for once, one of his "little ideas" had coed me to accompany him home I consented rather stiffly

"You are annoyed, is it not so?" he asked anxiously, as alked through the park

"Not at all," I said coldly

"That is well That lifts a great load from my mind"

This was not quite what I had intended I had hoped that he would have observed the stiffness of my manner Still, the fervour of his words went towards the appeasing of my just displeasure I thawed