24-01-30 Twenty-nine LENVOI There isnt really any more to say about things. They got Father Lavigny and the other man just as they were going to board a steamer atBeyrouth. Sheila Reilly married young Emmott. I think that will be good for her. Hes no door-ma...

24-01-30 Twenty-eight JOURNEYS END Poirot looked round. Every eye was now fixed upon him. There had been a certain relaxationaslackening of tension. Now the tension suddenly returned. There was something coming .?.?. something .?.?. Poirots voice, quiet and...

24-01-30 Twenty-seven BEGINNING OF A JOURNEY Bismillahi ar rahman ar rahim. That is the Arab phrase used before starting out on a journey. Ehbien, we too start on a journey. A journey into the past. A journey into the strange places of thehuman soul. I dont...

24-01-30 Twenty-six NEXT IT WILL BE ME! It was rather horrible. Dr.?Leidner looked as though he were going to faint and I felt a bit sickmyself. Dr.?Reilly examined it with professional gusto. No fingerprints, I presume? he threw out. No fingerprints. Dr.?Re...

24-01-30 Twenty-five SUICIDE OR MURDER? I hadnt time to ask Poirot what he meant, for Captain Maitland was calling up to us and asking usto come down. We hurried down the stairs. Look here, Poirot, he said. Heres another complication. The monk fellow is miss...

24-01-30 Twenty-four MURDER IS A HABIT We all went to bed early that night. Miss?Johnson had appeared at dinner and had behaved more orless as usual. She had, however, a sort of dazed look, and once or twice quite failed to take in whatother people said to h...

24-01-30 Twenty-three I GO PSYCHIC The funeral was, I thought, a very affecting affair. As well as ourselves, all the English people inHassanieh attended it. Even Sheila Reilly was there, looking quiet and subdued in a dark coat andskirt. I hoped that she wa...

24-01-30 Twenty-two DAVID EMMOTT, FATHER LAVIGNY AND A DISCOVERY Turning abruptly away, Carey strode off with long, angry strides. Poirot sat looking after him and presently he murmured: YesI see. .?.?. Without turning his head he said in a slightly louder v...

24-01-30 Twenty-one MR.?MERCADO, RICHARD CAREY They work in two separate places, I see, said Poirot, halting. Mr.?Reiter had been doing his photography on an outlying portion of the main excavation. Alittle distance away from us a second swarm of men were co...

24-01-30 Twenty MISS?JOHNSON, MRS. ?MERCADO, MR.?REITER I dont mind confessing that the idea came as a complete shock to me. Id never thought ofassociating Miss?Johnson with the letters. Mrs.?Mercado, perhaps. But Miss?Johnson was a reallady, and so self-con...