bessner uttered a lossal snort
&ot;ach! it is foolish, that! do you thk a an with a fractured bone and a splt on his leg uld go walkg about the boat and stabbg people? i tell you, it was ipossible for sion doyle to leave his cab&ot;
poirot said ntly: &ot;i know that is ite true the thg was ipossible it was ipossible, but it was al true! there uld be only one logical ang behd louise bourts words
&ot; i returned to the begng and reviewed the cri the light of this new knowled was it possible that the period precedg the arrel sion doyle had left the saloon and the others had fotten or not noticed it? i uld not see that that was possible uld the skilled testiony of dr bessner and adeoiselle bowers be disregarded? aga i felt sure it uld not but, i rebered, there was a gap beeen the o sion doyle had been alone the saloon for a period of five utes, and the skilled testiony of dr bessner only applied to the ti after that period for that period we had only the evidence of visual appearance, and, though apparently that was perfectly und, it was no lonr certa what had actually been seen - leavg assuption out of the estion?
&ot;adeoiselle robn had seen adeoiselle de bellefort fire her pistol, had seen sion doyle llapse onto a 插ir, had seen hi clasp a handkerchief to his leg and seen that handkerchief gradually ak through red what had onsieur fanthorp heard and seen? he heard a shot, he found doyle with a red-staed handkerchief clasped to his leg what had