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Yes, sir, and I would have taken it out with a piece of blotting-paper and a
hot iron."
Then Poirot repeated the question he had put to Dorcas:
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Did your mistress ever have a green dress?"
No, sir."
Nor a mantle, nor a cape, nor a--how do you call it?--a sports coat?"
Not green, sir."
Nor anyone else in the house?"
Annie reflected.
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No, sir."
You are sure of that?"
Quite sure."
Bien! That is all I want to know. Thank you very much."
With a nervous giggle, Annie took herself creakingly out of the room. My
pent-up excitement burst forth.
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Poirot," I cried, "I congratulate you! This is a great discovery."
What is a great discovery?"
Why, that it was the coco and not the coffee that was poisoned. That
explains everything! Of course it did not take effect until the early morning,
since the coco was only drunk in the middle of the night."
"So you think that the coco--mark well what I say, Hastings, the coco--
contained strychnine?"
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Of course! That salt on the tray, what else could it have been?"
It might have been salt," replied Poirot placidly.
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