日期：2023-08-07 The man who entered the room was a striking figure. Very tall, with a well knit athletic frame, and a deeply bronzed face and neck, he dominated the assembly. Even Giraud seemed anaemic beside him. When I knew him better I realized that Gabriel Ston... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 What the next development of the conversation would have been, I cannot say, for at that moment the door was thrown violently open, and a tall young man strode into the room. Just for a moment I had the uncanny sensation that the dead man had come t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Why did you measure that overcoat? I asked, with some curiosity, as we walked down the hot white road at a leisurely pace. Parbleu! to see how long it was, replied my friend imperturbably. I was vexed. Poirots incurable habit of making a mystery out... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 We lunched with an excellent appetite. I understood well enough that Poirot did not wish to discuss the tragedy where we could so easily be overheard. But, as is usual when one topic fills the mind to the exclusion of everything else, no other subjec... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Waiting for no more, I turned and ran up the path to the shed. The two men on guard there stood aside to let me pass and, filled with excitement, I entered. The light was dim, the place was a mere rough wooden erection to keep old pots and tools in.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 The doctors words were so surprising that we were all momentarily taken aback. Here was a man stabbed with a dagger which we knew to have been stolen only twenty-four hours previously, and yet Dr. Durand asserted positively that he had been dead at l... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Some twenty years or so before the opening of the present story, Monsieur Arnold Beroldy, a native of Lyons, arrived in Paris accompanied by his pretty wife and their little daughter, a mere babe. Monsieur Beroldy was a junior partner in a firm of wi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 I have set down the Beroldy case in full. Of course all the details did not present themselves to my memory as I have recounted them here. Nevertheless, I recalled the case fairly accurately. It had attracted a great deal of interest at the time, and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 By the way, Poirot, I said, as we walked along the hot white road, Ive got a bone to pick with you. I dare say you meant well, but really it was no business of yours to go mouching round to the Htel du Phare without letting me know. Poirot shot a qui... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 I was dumbfounded. Up to the last, I had not been able bring myself to believe Jack Renauld guilty. I had expected a ringing proclamation of his innocence when Poirot challenged him. But now, watching him as he stood, white and limp against the wall,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 The next moment Poirot embraced me warmly. Enfin! You have arrived. And all by yourself. It is superb! Continue your reasoning. You are right. Decidedly we have done wrong to forget Georges Conneau. I was so flattered by the little mans approval that... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 In a measured voice, Poirot began his exposition. It seems strange to you, mon ami, that a man should plan his own death? So strange, that you prefer to reject the truth as fantastic, and to revert to a story that is in reality ten times more impossi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 For a moment or two I sat as though frozen, the photograph still in my hand. Then, summoning all my courage to appear unmoved, I handed it back. At the same time, I stole a quick glance at Poirot. Had he noticed anything? But to my relief he did not... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 After a moment of stress, such as I have just described, reaction is bound to set in. I retired to rest that night on a note of triumph, but I awoke to realize that I was by no means out of the wood. True, I could see no flaw in the alibi I had so su... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 We crossed from England by the evening boat, and the following morning saw us in Saint-Omer, whither Jack Renauld had been taken. Poirot lost no time in visiting M. Hautet. As he did not seem disposed to make any objections to my accompanying him, I... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 We were present the following morning at the examination of Jack Renauld. Short as the time had been, I was shocked at the change that had taken place in the young prisoner. His cheeks had fallen in, there were deep black circles round his eyes, and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 My Friend: You will know all when you get this. Nothing that I can say will move Bella. She has gone out to give herself up. I am tired out with struggling. You will know now that I deceived you, that where you gave me trust I repaid you with lies. I... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Congratulations, M. Jack, said Poirot, wringing the lad warmly by the hand. Young Renauld had come to us as soon as he was liberatedbefore starting for Merlinville to rejoin Marthe and his mother. Stonor accompanied him. His heartiness was in strong... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 I have confused memories of the further events of that night. Poirot seemed deaf to my repeated questions. He was engaged in overwhelming Franoise with reproaches for not having told him of Mrs. Renaulds change of sleeping quarters. I caught him by t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as The Styles Case has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world-wide notoriety which attended it, I have been asked, both by my friend Poirot and the family th... 阅读全文>>