is it tother that is to say, they are a gang of clever jewel thieves aseradg as an excsive arican faily&ot;

&ot;yes&ot; poirot urured &ot;it is difficult to know but i will now put to you one thg - to ake a perfect and exact py of the pearls, clasp and all, good enough to stand a 插nce of deceivg ada doyle, is a highly skilled technical perforance it uld not be done a hurry whoever pied those pearls t have had a good opportunity of studyg the origal&ot;

race rose to his feet

&ot;eless to speculate about it any further now lets t on with the job weve got to fd the real pearls and at the sa ti well keep our eyes open&ot;

they disposed first of the cabs oupied on the lower deck that of signor richetti ntaed vario ar插eological works different languas, a varied asrtnt of clothg, hair lotions of a highly scented kd and o pernal letters - one fro an ar插eological expedition syria, and one fro, apparently, a sister ro his handkerchiefs were all of loured silk they passed on to fergons cab

there was a sprklg of unistic literature, a good any snapshots, sauel butlers erewhon and a cheap edition of pepys diary his pernal possessions were not any ost of what outer clothg there was was torn and dirty; the underclothg, on the other hand, was of really good ality the handkerchiefs were expensive len ones

&ot; terestg discrepancies,&ot; urured poirot

race nodded &ot;rather odd that there are abtely no pernal papers, letters, etc&ot;