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the arrest of Dr. Bauerstein."
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Well, he is arrested for the murder of Mrs. Inglethorp----"
"What?" cried Poirot, in apparently lively astonishment. "Dr. Bauerstein
arrested for the murder of Mrs. Inglethorp?"
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Yes."
Impossible! That would be too good a farce! Who told you that, my friend?"
Well, no one exactly told me," I confessed. "But he is arrested."
Oh, yes, very likely. But for espionage, mon ami."
Espionage?" I gasped.
Precisely."
Not for poisoning Mrs. Inglethorp?"
Not unless our friend Japp has taken leave of his senses," replied Poirot
placidly.
"But--but I thought you thought so too?"
Poirot gave me one look, which conveyed a wondering pity, and his full
sense of the utter absurdity of such an idea.
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Do you mean to say," I asked, slowly adapting myself to the new idea, "that
Dr. Bauerstein is a spy?"
Poirot nodded.
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Have you never suspected it?"
It never entered my head."
It did not strike you as peculiar that a famous London doctor should bury
himself in a little village like this, and should be in the habit of walking
about at all hours of the night, fully dressed?"
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