Chapter 11 second long shadow

Eleven Director Glover exchanged views with Poirot Director Glowell looked at Poirot across the table with piercing eyes.George was serving whiskey and soda water, and Gloway took the wine glass filled with dark purple liquid, turned to Poirot and said enthusiastically: what do you drink? Blackcurrant juice.said Poirot. Well, take what you want.Spence said you used to drink a herbal tea, didn't you?what drink is thatWas it translated from the French piano or other text? No, it can reduce fever.Poirot answered. Is it drugs?Well, cheers to suicide!Gloway said. Is it suicide?asked Poirot.

What else could it be?Director Glowell shook his head with a smile, and the smile became more obvious. Sorry to bother you again and again.Poirot said: I am like an animal or a child in Kipling's novels, driven by insatiable curiosity. Director Glover exchanges views with Poirot Insatiable curiosity, Director Glowell said: Kipling's stories are well written, and people are also knowledgeable and memorized.Some say he knows more about ships than a senior engineer in the Royal Navy after a lap on a destroyer. Alas, like I don't understand anything, Poirot said: So, I have to keep asking, sorry I asked you a lot of questions.

What makes me curious is how you keep jumping from one thing to another.You want to know the psychiatrist's and hospital's medical reports, how much is the inheritance, whose money is it, who can get it, who needs money and can't get it, especially women's hairstyles, names of wig companies, and fake wigs rose carton and so on. And you know all about it, Poirot said: It's admirable, really! This is a suspicious case, so there were detailed records at the beginning.Although the case is closed, we still keep the complete file in case it is needed. He passed a piece of paper across the table.

This was the beauty salon, on Bond Street, an expensive one, called Eugene and Rosent, which had since moved to Sloane Street, but now it was a pet shop.The two assistants retired a few years ago, and they were the ones doing hair for customers, and Mrs. Ravenk was a regular customer.Rosentre lives in Celtenang now, and she still does the same job, but she is not called a hairdresser, but a hairstylist, which is a modern term, as we said when we were young, different hats, same people. ah!said Poirot. What's the matter?Glowell asked. Thank you so much, Poirot said: You reminded me of one thing.The way inspiration comes is really strange.

The problem is, you have too many inspirations, the director said: no more needed.I've scoured their family records and can't find anything.Alistair.Ravenk was a Scot, his father was a clergyman, and his two uncles were soldiers, both of great merit.He married the well-born Margaret.Peisi Dongkui is his wife, and the wedding was held in a church. The marriage is happy and there are no scandals.You are right, Margaret has a twin sister, I don't know where you found out.Dorothy and Margaret, everyone called them Dolly and Molly.The Pestonques live in Hart Green, Cessac.Like other twins, the two are like duplicates, losing their teeth on the same day, getting scarlet fever in the same month, wearing the same clothes, falling in love with the same type of men, getting married almost at the same time, and their husbands are soldiers.Their family doctor died a few years ago, and nothing can be heard, but tragedy happened to one of the twins in the early years.

Is it Mrs Ravenk? No, another one.She is married to Captain Jallow and has two children.The youngest, a boy, was hit on the head by a wheelbarrow or a child's garden toy, or perhaps a shovel or a child's hoe, and fell into a pond and drowned at the age of four.Apparently my nine-year-old sister did it. The children played together and quarreled, so there was no doubt about it.But there are other rumors that the child's mother pushed him because she was angry and beat him; others said that the neighbor's wife beat him.I think you may not be interested. This matter has nothing to do with the self-destruction of my sister and brother-in-law many years later.

Well, Poirot said: It seems irrelevant, but there must be some background. Yes, Director Glowell said: I said to start from the past, but there is no need to recall such a long past, which happened many years before this case. Is there a follow-up record?asked Poirot. have.I've looked at the files, the press clippings of the case.There are many rumors, some of which are suspicious.The child's mother was devastated, had a total breakdown, was taken to the hospital, and some say she was a completely different person afterwards. But they think she did it? Well, the doctors think so, but there is no direct evidence.She claimed to have seen from the window that the child had an accident, and the eldest daughter hit her younger brother and pushed him.I don't think anyone took her word for it, she was confusing.

Do you have a history of psychotherapy? Yes, she ended up in a nursing home or a mental hospital, no doubt mentally ill.She spent a lot of time in one or two hospitals and was treated by a specialist at St Andrew's Hospital in London.After about three years, doctors diagnosed her as cured and released her to go home to a normal family life. Is it normal after that? I've heard you've always been neurotic. Where was she when the suicide happened?Live at the Ravenk's? Her death three weeks before the murder, when she was also living at Cliff House, seemed to prove once again that the twins shared the same fate.She has always had a sleepwalking problem, which has caused an accident or two.Sometimes I took too much sedatives, and I would sleepwalk in the house or even outside at night.That night, she was walking along the path by the cliff, and when she slipped and fell to the bottom of the cliff, she died on the spot, and her family didn't find out until the next day.Mrs. Ravenk had a deep bond with her, and was hospitalized with grief.

Could this tragedy lead to the Ravenkles' suicide a few weeks later? can not tell. You also said just now that strange things happen to twins. Mrs. Ravenkle may have committed suicide because of her twin sister, and her husband may have committed suicide because he felt guilty about something. Gloway said: Poirot, you think too much.Alistair.If Ravenk had an affair with his wife's sister, it would be known all over the city.If that's your guess, I can tell you that there is absolutely no such thing. The telephone rang, and Poirot got up to answer it. It was Mrs. Olivier. Mr. Poirot, can you come over and have a sit down tomorrow?I invited Celia, that domineering woman will be here later.You want to see them don't you?

Poirot said it was as he wished. I'm off again, Mrs. Olivier said: to find a Val.Huosi (War Horse, the English original meaning is war horse), this is the No. 1 elephant Julia.Provided by Kastai, I hope she remembers the name correctly, she often makes mistakes.But it is important that the address is not wrong.