日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 14 IThe inquest took place two days later. It was the second time I had atten-ded an inquest in this part of the world. The coroner was an able middle-aged man with a shrewd glance and adry manner of speech. The medical evidence was taken fi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 IV Mrs Franklin was certainly a creature of moods, I thought, as we troopedupstairs after dinner. Having made everyones life unbearable all day, shewas now sweetness itself to everybody. She was dressed in a negligee of pale eau-de-Nil and was lying... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 III If we were all nervy and aimless in the morning, the afternoon was unex-pectedly pleasant. The sun came out, the temperature was cool and fresh. Mrs Luttrell was brought down and sat on the veranda. She was in excel-lent form exercising her char... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 II I knew as well as Poirot that the danger was very close. I had more reasonto know it than he had, because of what I had actually overheard the pre-vious night. Nevertheless I pondered on that phrase of Poirots as I went down tobreakfast. I would... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 13 IThere is something about writing down an anti-climax in cold blood that issomewhat shattering to ones self-esteem. For the truth of the matter is, you see, that I sat there waiting for Aller-ton and that I fell asleep! Not so surprising... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 VI paused for a moment in the corridor. It was quite quiet. There was noone about. The beds had been all turned down ready for the night. Norton,who had a room on this side, I had left downstairs. Elizabeth Cole wasplaying bridge. Curtiss, I knew, w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 IV Presently I roused myself. I washed and shaved and changed. I went downto dinner. I behaved, I fancy, in quite a normal manner. Nobody seemedto notice anything amiss. Once or twice I saw Judith flash a curious glance at me. She must havebeen puzz... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 III Mrs Franklin and Boyd Carrington came in shortly after we got back to thehouse. He had taken her in his car to Tadcaster because she wanted to dosome shopping. She had done it, I gather, pretty thoroughly. Lots of parcels came out ofthe car and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 II I was still there, dazed and helpless, unable to think out my next course ofaction, some quarter of an hour later. I was there when Elizabeth Cole and Norton found me. They were, I realized later, very kind to me. They saw, they must haveseen, th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 11 It was, I think, on the following morning before lunch that a conversationtook place which left me vaguely disquieted. There were four of us Judith, myself, Boyd Carrington and Norton. Exactly how the subject started, I am not sure, but w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 12 IIs anything worrying you, mon ami? asked Poirot that afternoon. I did not answer him, merely shook my head. I felt that I had no right toburden Poirot with this, my purely personal problem. It was not as thoughhe could help in any way. J... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 II Up to this time, though I had been faintly worried about my daughter, mypreoccupation over X and the possibility of a crime occurring at any mo-ment had successfully driven more personal problems to the back of mymind. Now that the blow had falle... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 10 II opened the subject with Poirot the following morning. His face lighted upand he wagged his head appreciatively. Excellent, Hastings. I wondered if you would see the similarity. I did notwant to prompt you, you understand. Then I am rig... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 III I wandered downstairs and out into the garden. There was no one aboutand I strolled through a grove of trees and up to a grassy knoll which wassurmounted by a somewhat earwiggy summer- house in an advancedstage of decrepitude. Here I sat down, l... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 9 It must have been about six oclock when Colonel Luttrell came along thepath. He had a rook rifle with him and was carrying a couple of deadwood-pigeons. He started when I hailed him and seemed surprised to see us. Hullo, what are you two d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 8 IThe days passed. It was an unsatisfactory time, with its uneasy feeling ofwaiting for something. Nothing, if I may put it in such a way, actually happened. Yet there wereincidents, scraps of odd conversations, side- lights upon the variou... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 II It was on the following day that I ventured to broach an idea which hadcome into my mind more than once. I did so a little dubiously, for onenever knows how Poirot may react! I said: Ive been thinking, Poirot, I know Im not much of a fellow. Youv... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 III I enjoyed my expedition enormously. Not only was the weather fine a really lovely summers day but I en-joyed the companionship of the man. Boyd Carrington had that personal magnetism, that wide experience oflife and of places that made him excel... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 II After some hesitations I decided that I ought to sound Judith on the subjectof Allerton. I felt that I must know what her reactions were. She was, Iknew, a level-headed girl, well able to take care of herself, and I did notthink that she would re... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 7 IMy narrative of the days spent at Styles must necessarily be somewhatrambling. In my recollection of it, it presents itself to me as a series of con-versations of suggestive words and phrases that etched themselves intomy consciousness. F... 阅读全文>>