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"PAGE FOURTEEN -- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (By Agatha Christie) JAA ---- © THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1927 -- -- | omni CHAPTER XXI The Paragraph in the Paper Caroline, of course, had not failed to see Miss Russell come to the surgey door. 1 hand anticipated this, and had ready an elaborate account of the lady's bad knee. But Caroline was not in a cross-questioning. mood. Her int of view was that she knew what liss Russell had really 'come for and that 1 didn't. "Pumping you, James," said Caro- line. "Pumping you in the most shameless manner, I've not a doubt. It's no good interrupting. 1 dare say you hadn't the least idea she was do- ing it even. Men are so simple. She knows that you are in M. Poirot's confidence, and she wants to find out things. Do you know what I think, James?" "I couldn't begin to imagine. You think so many extraordinary things." "It's na good being sarcastic. 1 think Miss Russell knows more about Mr. Ackroyd's death than she is prepared to admit." Careline leaned back triumphantly in her chair. : "Do you really think so?" I said absently. "You are very dull today, James. No animation about you. It's that li- ver of yours." Qur conversation then dealt purely personal matters. The paragraph pit by Poirot duly appeared in our daily paper the next morning. I was in the dark as to its purpose, but its effect on Caro- line was immense. She began by stating, most untruly, that she had said as much all along. 1 raised my eyebrows, but did not ar- gue. Caroline, however, must have felt a prick of conscience, for she went on i-- "I mayn't have actually mentioned Liverpool, but I knew he'd try to get away to America. That's what Crip- pen did." "Without much success,' ed her. "Poor hoy, and so they've caught him. [I consider, James, that it's your duty to see that he isn't hung." "What do you expect me to do." "Why, you're a medical man, aren't you? You've known him from a boy upwards. Not mentally responsible That's, the line to take, clearly. [ read only the other day that they're very happy in Broadmoor--it's quite like a high class club." But Caroline's words had reminded me of something. "I never knew that Poirot had imbecile nephew?" 1 said curiously. with I remind- an "Didn't you? Oh, he told me all about it. Poorslad. It's a great grief to all the family. They've kept him at home so far, but it's getting to such a pitch that they're afraid he'll have to go into some kind of institution." "l suppose you know pretty well cverything there is to know about Poi- rot's § by this time," I said, ex- asperated, . "Pretty well," said Caroline compla- cently." "It's a great relief to people to be able to tell all their troubles to some one." h "It might be," 1 said, "if they were ever allowed to do so spontaneously. Whether they enjoy having confinden- ces screwed out of them by force is another matter." Caroline merely looked at me with the air of a Christian martyr enjoying martyrdom. "You are so self-contained, James," she said. "You hate speaking out, or parting with any information yourself, and you think everybody else must be just like you. 1 should hope thar 1 never serew confidences out of any- body. For instance, if M. Poirot comes in this afternoon, as he said he might do, 1 shall not dream of asking him who it was arrived at his house early this morning." "Rarly this morning?" 1 queried "Very early," said Caroline. "Be- fore the milk came, I just happened to be looking out of the window--the blind was flapping. It was a man. He came in a closed car, and he was all muffled up. 1 couldn't get a glimpse of his face, But 1 will tell you my idea, and vou'll see that I'm right." "What's your idea?" Caroline dropped her voice mysteri- ously. "A Home Office expert," she breath- ed, "A Home Office expert," 1 said am- azed, "My dear Caroline!" . "Mark my words, James, you'll see that I'm right. That Russell woman was here'that morning ater vour poi- sons. Roger Ackroyd might casily have heen poisomed in his food that night." I laughed out loud. "Nonsense," 1 cried. "He was stab- bed in the neck. You know that as well as IT do." "After death, James," said Caroline; "to make a false clue" "My good woman," I said, "I ex- amined the body, and I know what I'm talking about. That wound wasn't in- flicted after death--it was the cause of death, and you need mak: no mistake about it." Caroline merely cortinued to look t, which so annoyed me that tion of them" 1 went oni-- : "When do you want me to do this?" "Perhaps you will tell me, Caroline, "Now; if you will. We are close to if 1 have a medical deg=ee or if |ithe house have not?" "Aren't you coming in?" "You have the medical degree, il "No, me, 1 will promenade myself dare say, James--at least, | mean 1 in the grounds. 1 will rejoin you by know you have. But youve uo mu- ithe lodge gates in a quarter of an agination whatever." {hour's time." "Having endowed you with a treble 1 nodded, and set off on my task. portion, there was none leit over fur The only member of the family at me," 1 said dryly { home proved to be Mrs. Ackroyd, who 1 was amused to notice Carchne's {was sipping an early cup of tea. She manoeuvres that afternoon when Poi- received me very graciously. rot duly arrived. Aly sister, without} "So grateful to you, doctor," she : murmured, "for clearing up that lit- asking a direct questitn, <kirted the 'tle matter with M. Poirot. But lite subject of the tysterious guest in ¢v-'is one trouble after another. You ery way imaginable. . By the twinkle (have heard about Flora, of course?" in Poirot's eyes, | saw that he realis- |° "What exactly?" 1 asked cautiously. ed her object. He remained blandly| "This new engagement. Flora and impervious, and blocked her bowling 'Hector Blunt. Of course not such a so successfully that she herseli was at |good match as Ralph would have a loss how to proceed. been. But after all, happiness comes Having, I suspect, quietly enjoyed |first. What dear Flora needs is an the little game, he rose to his eet and |older man--some one stcady and re- suggested a walk, liable, and then Hector is really a "41 1s that 1 need to réduce the figure a little," he explamed. "You will come with me, doctor? And per- haps later, Miss Caroline will give us some tea." "Delighted," said Caroline. your--er--guest coine in also?" "You are too kind" said Poirot. "But no, my friend reposes himself. Soon you must make his acquaint. ance." "Quite an old friend of yours, so You saw the news of Ralph's arrest in the paper this morning?" "Yes," 1 said, "I did." "Horrible." Mrs. Ackroyd closed he eves and shuddered. "Geoffrey Ray- mond was in a terrible way. Rang up Liverpool But they wouldn't tell him anything at the police station there. In fact, they said they hadn't arrested Ralph at all. Mr. Raymond insists that it's all a mistake--a--what do they somebody told me," said Caroline, call it?--canard of the newspaper's. making one last valiant' cffort. I've forbidden it to be mentioned be- "Did they?" murmured Poirot. "Well | fore the servants. Such a terrible dis- we must start." grace. Fancy if Flora had actually Our tramp took us in the direction [heen married to him." : of Fernly. I had guessed beforehand Mrs. Ackroyd shut her eyes in an- that it might do so. 1 was begining guish. . I began to wonder how soon to understand Poirot's methods. Every |T should be able to deliver Poirot's little irrelevancy had a bearing upon invitation. the whole. Refore I had time to speak, Mrs. "I have a commission for you, my | Ackroyd was off again. friend," he said at last. "Tonight at "You were bere yesterday, weren't my house, 1 desire to have a little you, with that dreadful Inspector Rag- conference. You will attend, will you Jan? Brute of a man--he terrified not?" Flora into saying she took that money "Certainly," I said. {from poor Roger's room And the "Good. | I need also all those in the [matter was so simple, really. The dear house--that is to say: Mrs. Ackroyd, child wanted to borrow a few pounds, Mademoiselle Flora, Major Blunt, M. didn't like to disturb her uncle since Ravmond, 1 want you to be my am- he'd given s'rict orders against it, but bassador. This little reunion is fixed knowing where he kept his notes she for nine o'clock. You will ask them went there nd took what she needed." --yes?"" "Is that Ilora's account of the mat- "With pleasure; but why not ask ter?" I asked. them yourself?" | "My dear doctor, "Because they will then put the girls are nowadays. . So easily acted on questions: Why? What for? They hy suggestion. Yon. of course, know will demand what my idea is. And, all about hypnosis and that sort of 1s you know, my friend, 1 much dis- thing, The inspector shouts at her, like to have to explain my little ideas gays the word 'steal' over and over until the time comes," until the poor child get an in- I smiled a little, hibition--or is it a complex?--I al- "My friend Hastings, he of whom I ways mix up those two words--and told vou, used to sav of me that I was actually thinks herself that she has the human oyster. But he was unjust. stolen the money. 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