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"Iood a farce! Who told you that, my friend?"

"Well, no one exactly told me," I confessed "But he is arrested"

"Oh, yes, very likely But for espionage, asped

"Precisely"

"Not for poisoning Mrs Inglethorp?"

"Not unless our friend Japp has taken leave of his senses," replied Poirot placidly

"But--but I thought you thought so too?"

Poirot gavepity, and his full sense of the utter absurdity of such an idea

"Do youmyself to the new idea, "that Dr Bauerstein is a spy?"

Poirot nodded

"Have you never suspected it?"

"It never entered my head"

"It did not strike you as peculiar that a fae like this, and should be in the habit of walking about at all hours of the night, fully dressed?"