The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (Hercule Poirot 21) - Page 199

He said it in such a gloomy voice that Miss

Henderson laughed.

"Oh! Well, you will be able to get ashore to-morrow

at Alexandria. You have been to Egypt

before?"

"Never, Mademoiselle."

Miss Henderson rose somewhat abruptly.

"I think I shall join the General on his constitu-tional,''

she announced.

Poirot sprang politely to his feet.

She gave him a little nod and passed out onto

the deck.

A faint puzzled look showed for a moment in

Poirot's eyes then, a little smile creasing his lips,

he rose, put his head through the door and glanced

down the deck. Miss Henderson was leaning

against the rail talking to a tall, soldierly-looking

man.

Poirot's smile deepened. He drew himself back

into the smoking-room with the same exaggerated

care with which a tortoise withdraws itself into it,

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shell. For the moment he had the smoking-room

to himself, though he rightly conjectured that that

would not last long.

It did not. Mrs. Clapperton, her carefully

waved platinum head protected with a net, her

massaged and dieted form dressed in a smart

sports suit, came through

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