The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (Hercule Poirot 21) - Page 146

I ventured to disagree. I then asked Mr. Rhodes

if he could describe the maid in my house. Neither

he nor Mr. Petherick could do so.

"Don't you see what that means?" I said. "You

both came here full of your own affairs and the

person who let you in was only a parlorrnaid. The

same applies to Mr. Rhodes at the Hotel. He saw

only a chambermaid. He saw her uniform and her

apron. He was engrossed by his work. But Mr.

Petherick has interviewed the same woman in a

different capacity. He has looked at her as a

person.

"That's what the woman who did the murder

counted upon."

As they still didn't see, I had to explain.

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"I think," I said, "that this is how it went. The

chambermaid came in by door A, passed through

Mr. Rhodes' room into Mrs. Rhodes' room with

the hot water bottle and went out through the hall-way

into passage B. X--as I will call our murder-ess--came

in by door B into the little hallway,

concealed herself in--well, in a certain apartment,

ahem--and waited until the chambermaid had

passed out. Then she entered Mrs. Rhodes' room,

took the stiletto from the dressing-table--(she had

doubtless explored the room earlier in the day)

went up to the bed, stabbed the dozing woman,

wiped the handle of the stiletto, locked and bolted

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