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IThe days passed. It was an unsatisfactory time, with its uneasy feeling of waiting for something.
Nothing, if I may put it in such a way, actually happened. Yet there were incidents, scraps1 ofodd conversations, sidelights upon the various inmates2 of Styles, elucidating3 remarks. They allmounted up and, if properly pieced together, could have done a lot towards enlightening me.
It was Poirot who, with a few forceful words, showed me something to which I had beencriminally blind.
I was complaining, for the umpteenth4 time, of his wilful5 refusal to admit me to his confidence. Itwas not fair, I told him. Always he and I had had equal knowledge—even if I had been dense6 andhe had been astute7 in drawing the right conclusions from that knowledge.
He waved an impatient hand. “Quite so, my friend. It is not fair! It is not sporting! It is notplaying the game! Admit all that and pass from it. This is not a game—it is not le sport. For you,you occupy yourself in guessing wildly at the identity of X. It is not for that that I asked you tocome here. Unnecessary for you to occupy yourself with that. I know the answer to that question.
But what I do not know and what I must know is this: ‘Who is going to die—very soon?’ It is aquestion, mon vieux, not of you playing a guessing game, but of preventing a human being fromdying.”
I was startled. “Of course,” I said slowly. “I—well, I did know that you practically said so once,but I haven’t quite realized it.”
“Then realize it now—immediately.”
“Yes, yes, I will—I mean, I do.”
“Bien! Then tell me, Hastings, who is it who is going to die?”
I stared at him blankly. “I have really no idea!”
“Then you should have an idea! What else are you here for?”
“Surely,” I said, going back over my
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killer
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