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simply

scrubbed,

ominous

stains

rem er t.

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h

well

Suddenly

Poirot

uttered

in ,.

"Those

holes

there they

are

a

h

exclamation

uri

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,ous.

One

would

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say that they had been newly made."

The holes in question were at the back of the

chest against the wall. There were three or four of

them. They were about a quarter of an inch in