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Not that I know of."
Do you not think that it bears a marked resemblance to your own hand-
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writing--carelessly disguised?"
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No, I do not think so."
I put it to you that it is your own hand-writing!"
No."
I put it to you that, anxious to prove an alibi, you conceived the idea of a
fictitious and rather incredible appointment, and wrote this note yourself in
order to bear out your statement!"
"No."
"Is it not a fact that, at the time you claim to have been waiting about at a
solitary and unfrequented spot, you were really in the chemist's shop in
Styles St. Mary, where you purchased strychnine in the name of Alfred
Inglethorp?"
"No, that is a lie."
"I put it to you that, wearing a suit of Mr. Inglethorp's clothes, with a black
beard trimmed to resemble his, you were there--and signed the register in
his name!"
"That is absolutely untrue."
"Then I will leave the remarkable similarity of hand-writing between the
note, the register, and your own, to the consideration of the jury," said Mr.
Philips, and sat down with the air of a man who has done his duty, but who
was nevertheless horrified by such deliberate perjury.
After this, as it was growing late, the case was adjourned till Monday.
Poirot, I noticed, was looking profoundly discouraged. He had that little
frown between the eyes that I knew so well.
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What is it, Poirot?" I inquired.
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