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After breakfast, I decided to go down to the village, and see if Poirot had returned yet; but, before I could start, a well-known face blocked one of the s, and the well-known voice said: "Bon jour,hied hilad to see anyone Listen, I have said nothing to anybody but John Is that right?"

"My friend," replied Poirot, "I do not knohat you are talking about"

"Dr Bauerstein's arrest, of course," I answered impatiently

"Is Bauerstein arrested, then?"

"Did you not know it?"

"Not the least in the world" But, pausing a moment, he added: "Still, it does not surprise me After all, we are only four miles from the coast"

"The coast?" I asked, puzzled "What has that got to do with it?"

Poirot shrugged his shoulders

"Surely, it is obvious!"

"Not to me No doubt I am very dense, but I cannot see what the proxilethorp"

"Nothing at all, of course," replied Poirot, s of the arrest of Dr Bauerstein"

"Well, he is arrested for the lethorp----"

"What?" cried Poirot, in apparently lively astonishlethorp?"

"Yes"