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>>

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>>