ent you gog to tell ?&ot;

poirots eyes rand ietly over the three of the race, silg sardonically, bessner, still lookg sceptical, rnelia, her outh hangg a little open gazg at hi with ear eyes

&ot;ais oui,&ot; he said &ot;i like an audience, i t nfess i a va, you see i a puffed up with nceit i like to say, see how clever is hercule poirot!&ot;

race shifted a little his 插ir

&ot;well,&ot; he asked ntly, &ot;jt how clever is hercule poirot?&ot;

shakg his head sadly fro side to side poirot said: &ot;to beg with i was stupid - credibly stupid to the stublg block was the pistol - jacele de belleforts pistol why had that pistol not been left on the scene of the cri? the idea of the urderer was ite pnly to criate her why then did the urderer take it away? i was stupid that i thought of all rts of fantastic reans the real one was very siple the urderer took it away becae he had to take it away - becae he had no choice the atter&ot;

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&ot;you and i, y friend,&ot; poirot leaned toward race, &ot;started our vestigation with a prenceived idea that idea was that the cri was itted on the spur of the ont, without any preliary planng body wi射d to reove l doyle and had seized their opportunity to do at a ont when the cri would alost certaly be attributed to jacele de bellefort it therefore followed that the pern estion had overheard the scene beeen jacele and sion doyle and had obtaed possession of the pistol after the others had left