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Note by Captain Arthur Hastings: The following manuscript came into mypossession four months after the death of my friend Hercule Poirot. I received acommunication from a firm of lawyers asking me to call at their office. There “inaccordance with the instructions of their client, the late M. Hercule Poirot,” theyhanded me a sealed packet. I reproduce its contents here.
Manuscript written by Hercule Poirot:
“Mon cher ami,
“I shall have been dead four months when you read these words. I havedebated long whether or not to write down what is written here, and I havedecided that it is necessary for someone to know the truth about the second‘Affaire Styles.’ Also I hazard a conjecture3 that by the time you read this you willhave evolved the most preposterous4 theories—and possibly may be giving pain toyourself.
“But let me say this: You should, mon ami, have easily been able to arrive atthe truth. I saw to it that you had every indication. If you have not, it is because,as always, you have far too beautiful and trusting a nature. A la fin5 comme aucommencement.
“But you should know, at least, who killed Norton—even if you are still in thedark as to who killed Barbara Franklin. The latter may be a shock to you.
“To begin with, as you know, I sent for you. I told you that I needed you. Thatwas true. I told you that I wanted you to be my ears and my eyes. That again wastrue, very true—if not in the sense that you understood it! You were to see what Iwanted you to see and hear what I wanted you to hear.
“You complained, cher ami, that I was ‘unfair’ in my presentation of this case.
I withheld6 from you knowledge that I had myself. That is to say, I refused to tellyou the identity of X. That is quite true. I had to do so—though not for thereasons that I advanced. You will see the reason presently.
“And now let us examine this matter of X. I showed you the résumé of thevarious cases. I pointed7 out to you that in each separate case it seemed quiteclear that the person accused, or suspected, had actually committed the crimes inquestion, that there was no alternate solution. And I then proceeded to the secondimportant fact—that in each case X had been either on the scene or closelyinvolved. You then jumped to a
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supreme
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v.狼吞虎咽,贪婪地吃,飞碟游戏(比赛双方每组5人,相距15码,互相掷接飞碟);毁坏(建筑物等)的内部( gut的第三人称单数 );取出…的内脏n.勇气( gut的名词复数 );内脏;消化道的下段;肠 | |
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