日期：2023-08-07 At ten oclock that morning, Lord Caterham and his daughter were breakfasting. Bundle was looking very thoughtful. Father, she said at last. Lord Caterham, absorbed in The Times, did not reply. Father, said Bundle again, more sharply. Lord Caterham,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Superintendent Battle was standing in the library at Wyvvern Abbey. George Lomax, seated before a desk overflowing with papers, was frowning portentously. Superintendent Battle had opened proceedings by making a brief and business-like report. Since... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 At 2.30 a little party met together in the Council Chamber: Bundle, Virginia, Superintendent Battle, M. Lemoine and Anthony Cade. No good waiting until we can get hold of Mr. Lomax, said Battle. This is the kind of business one wants to get on with... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 You dont mind, I suppose, said Bundle after a minute or two, if I drive rather fast? I started later than I meant to do. It had seemed to Anthony that they were proceeding at a terrific speed already, but he soon saw that that was nothing compared t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Lord Caterham, Virginia and Bundle were sitting in the library after dinner. It was Tuesday evening. Some thirty hours had elapsed since Anthonys rather dramatic departure. For at least the seventh time Bundle repeated Anthonys parting words, as spo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 At ten oclock on the morning of Wednesday, the 13th of October, Anthony Cade walked into Harridges Hotel and asked for Baron Lolopretjzyl who was occupying a suite there. After suitable and imposing delay, Anthony was taken to the suite in question.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 The clock in the Council Chamber struck nine. Well, said Lord Caterham, with a deep sigh. Here they all are, just like little Bo Peeps flock, back again and wagging their tails behind them. He looked sadly round the room. Organ grinder complete with... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 I suspected her from the first, explained Anthony. There was a light in her room on the night of the murder. Afterwards, I wavered. I made inquiries about her in Brittany, and came back satisfied that she was what she represented herself to be. I wa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 You owe us an explanation, I think, Mr. Cade, said Herman Isaacstein, somewhat later in the evening. Theres nothing much to explain, said Anthony modestly. I went to Dover and Fish followed me under the impression that I was King Victor. We found a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 If you will go on, gentlemen, I will follow you in a minute, said Anthony. He waited whilst the others filed out, and then turned to where Superintendent Battle was standing apparently absorbed in examining the panelling. Well, Battle? Want to ask m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 SceneChimneys, 11 a.m. Thursday morning. Johnson, the police constable, with his coat off, digging. Something in the nature of a funeral feeling seems to be in the air. The friends and relations stand round the grave that Johnson is digging. George... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 I believe that a well-known anecdote exists to the effect that a young writer, determined to make the commencement of his story forcible and original enough to catch and rivet the attention of the most blas of editors, penned the following sentence:... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 It was five minutes past nine when I entered our joint sitting-room for breakfast on the following morning. My friend Poirot, exact to the minute as usual, was just tapping the shell of his second egg. He beamed upon me as I entered. You have slept... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 In a moment Poirot had leapt from the car, his eyes blazing with excitement. He caught the man by the shoulder. What is that you say? Murdered? When? How? The sergent de ville drew himself up. I cannot answer any questions, monsieur. True. I compreh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Fran?oise had left the room. The magistrate was drumming thoughtfully on the table. M. Bex, he said at length, here we have directly conflicting testimony. Which are we to believe, Fran?oise or Denise? Denise, said the commissary decidedly. It was s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 We found M. Hautet awaiting us in the hall, and we all proceeded upstairs together, Fran?oise marching ahead to show us the way. Poirot went up in a zigzag fashion which puzzled me, until he whispered with a grimace: No wonder the servants heard M.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Between them, the doctor and M. Hautet carried the unconscious woman into the house. The commissary looked after them, shaking his head. Pauvre femme, he murmured to himself. The shock was too much for her. Well, well, we can do nothing. Now, M. Poi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 As we retraced our steps to the house, M. Bex excused himself for leaving us, explaining that he must immediately acquaint the examining magistrate with the fact of Girauds arrival. Giraud himself had been obviously delighted when Poirot declared th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 We were up at the Villa betimes next morning. The man on guard at the gate did not bar our way this time. Instead, he respectfully saluted us, and we passed on to the house. The maid Lonie was just coming down the stairs, and seemed not averse to th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 In the Salon I found the examining magistrate busily interrogating the old gardener Auguste. Poirot and the commissary, who were both present, greeted me respectively with a smile and a polite bow. I slipped quietly into a seat. M. Hautet was painst... 阅读全文>>