The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (Hercule Poirot 21) - Page 204

isolated sally, but a fixed project was made clear

that same evening when the eighteen-year-old Pam

Cregan came up to Hercule Poirot, and murmured:

"Watch us, M. Poirot. He's going to be

cut out from under her nose and taken to walk in

the moonlight on the boat deck."

It was just at that moment that Colonel Clap-perton

was saying: "I grant you the price of a

Rolls Royce. But it's practically good for a lifetime.

Now my car--"

"My car, I think, John." Mrs. Clapperton's

voice was shrill and penetrating.

He showed no annoyance at her ungracious

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ness. Either he was used to it by this time, or

else--

"Or else?" thought Poirot and let himself

'. speculate.

"Certainly, my dear, your car," Clapperton

bowed to his wife and finished what he had been

saying, perfectly unruffled.

"You ce qu'on appeile !e pukka sahib," thought Poirot. "But the General Forbes says that

Clapperton is no gentleman at all. I wonder now."

There was a suggestion of bridge. Mrs. Clapper-ton,

General Forbes and a hawk-eyed couple sat

down to it. Miss Henderson had excused herself

and gone out on deck.

"What about your husband?" asked General

Forbes, hesitating.

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