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John lowered his voice:

“Have you ever thought, Hastings — it’s a nightmare to me — who did it? I can’t help feeling sometimes it must have been an accident. Because — because — who could have done it? Now Inglethorp’s out of the way, there’s no one else; no one, I mean, except — one of us.”

Yes, indeed, that was nightmare enough for any man! One of us? Yes, surely it must be so, unless —— -

A new idea suggested itself to my mind. Rapidly, I considered it. The light increased. Poirot’s mysterious doings, his hints — they all fitted in. Fool that I was not to have thought of this possibility before, and what a relief for us all.

“No, John,” I said, “it isn’t one of us. How could it be?”

“I know, but, still, who else is there?”

“Can’t you guess?”

“No.”

I looked cautiously round, and lowered my voice.

“Dr. Bauerstein!” I whispered.

“Impossible!”

“Not at all.”

“But what earthly interest could he have in my mother’s death?”

“That I don’t see,” I confessed, “but I’ll tell you this: Poirot thinks so.”