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"I guessed it .... Mrs. Clapperton talked of her own heart being affected, but she struck me as the type of woman who likes to be thought ill. Then I picked up a torn prescription with a very strong dose of digitalin in it. Digitalin is a heart mdicine

but it couldn't be Mrs. Clapperton's because

digitalin dilates the pupils of the eyes. I had never noticed such a phenomenon with hei'--but when I looked at his eyes I saw the signs at once."

Ellie murmured: "So you thought--it might end--this way?"

"The best way, don't you think, Mademoi-selle?'' he said gently.

He saw the tears rise in her eyes. She said: "You've known. You've kno?n all along. : . . That I cared .... But he didn't do it for me .... It was those girlsmyouthmit made him feel his slavery. He wanted to be free before it was too late .... Yes, I'm sure that's how it was .... When did you guessmthat it was he?"

"His self-control was too perfect," said Poirot simply. "No matter how galling his wife's con-duct, it never seemed to touch him. That meant either that he was so used to it that it no longer

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stung him, or else--eh bien--I decided on the latter alternative .... And I was right ....

"And then there was his insistence on his con-juring ability--the evening before the crime. He pretended to give himself away. But a man like Clapperton doesn't give himself away. There must be a reason. So long as people thought he had been a conjuror they weren't likely to think of his having been a ventriloquist."

"And the voice we heard--Mrs. Clapperton's voice?"

"One of the stewardesses had a voice not unlike hers. I induced her to hide behind the stage and taught her the words to say."

"It was a trick--a cruel trick," cried out Ellie.

"I do not approve of murder," said Hercule Poirot.

"One of the most Imaginative and fertile plot creators of all time!"-Ellery Queen

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