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POIROT’S LITTLE REUNION
Poirot interrupted.
"That is your advice, yes? That he should come forward?"
"Certainly. If you know where he is———"
"I perceive that you do not believe that I do know. And yet I have told you just now that I know everything. The truth of the telephone call, of the footprints on the window-sill, of the hiding-place of Ralph Paton———"
"Where is he?" said Blunt sharply.
"Not very far away," said Poirot, smiling.
"In Cranchester?" I asked.
Poirot turned towards me.
"Always you ask me that. The idea of Cranchester it is with you an idée fixe. No, he is not in Cranchester. He is—there!"
He pointed a dramatic forefinger. Every one's head turned.
Ralph Paton was standing in the doorway.
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