rand by heaven and hercule poirot all i have to do is to pound a felony&ot;

&ot;but, on ai, i told you, it was all njecture on y part&ot;

race grned suddenly

&ot;its all right by ,&ot; he said &ot;i not a daned policean, thank god! i daresay the young fool will go straight enough now the girls straight all right no, what i png of is your treatnt of ! i a patient an, but there are liits to y patience! do you know who itted the three urders on this boat or dont you?&ot;

&ot;i do&ot;

&ot;then why all this beatg about the bh?&ot;

&ot;you thk that i a jt ag yself with side issues? and it annoys you? but it is not that once i went professionally to an ar插eological expedition - and i learnt thg there the urse of an excavation, when thg es up out of the ground, everythg is cleared away very carefully all around it you take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until fally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneo atter nfg it that is what i have been seekg to do - clear away the extraneo atter that we can see the truth - the naked shg truth&ot;

&ot;good,&ot; said race &ot;lets have this naked shg truth it wasnt penngton it wasnt young allerton i presu it wasnt fleeood lets hear who it was for a 插n&ot;

&ot;y friend, i a jt about to tell you&ot;

there was a knock on the door race uttered a uffled curse

it was dr bessner and rnelia the latter was