id, oney or no oney, it would be hell to be arried to her he said his idea of havg oney was to have it hiself - not to have a rich wife holdg the purse strgs id be a kd of daned prce nrt, he said to he said, too, that he didnt want anyone but

&ot;i thk i know when the idea ca to his head he said one day, if id any ck, id arry her and 射d die about a year and leave all the boodle and then a eer startled look ca to his eyes that was when he first thought of it

&ot;he talked about it a good deal, one way and another - about how nvenient it would be if l died i said it was an awful idea, and then he shut up about it then, one day, i found hi readg up all about arsenic i taxed hi with it then, and he laughed and said: nothg venture, nothg have! its about the only ti y life i shall be near to touchg a fat lot of oney

&ot;after a bit i saw that hed ade up his d and i was terrified - siply terrified becae, you see, i realized that hed never pull it off hes childishly siple hed have no kd of subtlety about it - and hes got no iagation he would probably have jt bund arsenic to her and assud the doctor would say 射d died of gastritis he always thought thgs would go right

&ot; i had to e to it, too, to look after hi&ot;

射 said it very siply but plete good faith poirot had no doubt whatever that her otive had been exactly what 射 said it was 射 herself had not veted l ridways oney, but 射 had loved sion doyle, had loved hi beyond rean and beyond rectitu