The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (Hercule Poirot 21) - Page 190

the upshot was that I went off not knowing

whether I'd done right or been a fool, and a week later

Sylvia broke off her engagement to Charles Crawley.

After that

the war happened, and there wash'! much leisure

for thinking of anything else. Once or twice

when I was on leave, I came acr. oss Sylvia, but as

far as possible I avoided her.

I loved

her and wanted her just as badly as ever, but I

felt, somehow, that it wouldn't be playing the game.

It was owing to me that she'd broken off her

engagement to Crawley, and 1 kept sayin8

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to myself that I could only justify the action I had

taken by making my attitude a purely disinterested

one.

Then, in 1916, Nell was killed and it fell to me

to tell Sylvia about his last moments. We couldn't

remain on a formal footing after that. Sylvia had

adored Nell and he had been my best friend. She

was sweet--adorably sweet in her grief. I just

managed to hold my tongue and went out again

praying that a bullet might end the whole miser-able

business. Life without Sylvia wasn't worth

living.

But there was no bullet with my name on it. One

nearly got me below the right ear and one was

deflected by a cigarette case in my pocket, but I

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