happens after you shoot yourself?"
"I
wake up."
Poirot
nodded his head slowly and thought-fully.
"As a matter of interest, do you keep a
revolver
in that particular drawer?" "Yes."
"Why?"
"I
have always done so. It is as well to be pre-pared.
' '
"Prepared
for what?"
Farley
said irritably, ,,A man in my position has to
be on his guard. All rich men have enemies."
Poirot
did not pursue the subject. He remained
silent
for a moment or two, then he said:
"Why
exactly did you send for me?"
"I
will tell you. First of all I consulted a doc-
tor-three
doctors to be exact."
"Yes?"
"The
first told me it was all a question of diet.