and quite different in every way. No. 3”—I paused for some time—“there seem to be a lot of confused finger-marks, but here, very distinctly, are No. 1’s.”
“Overlapping the others?”
“Yes.”
“You recognize them beyond fail?”
“Oh, yes; they are identical.”
Poirot nodded, and gently taking the photographs from me locked them up again.
“I suppose,” I said, “that as usual, you are not going to explain?”
“On the contrary. No. 1
and quite different in every way. No. 3”—I paused for some time—“there seem to be a lot of confused finger-marks, but here, very distinctly, are No. 1’s.”
“Overlapping the others?”
“Yes.”
“You recognize them beyond fail?”
“Oh, yes; they are identical.”
Poirot nodded, and gently taking the photographs from me locked them up again.
“I suppose,” I said, “that as usual, you are not going to explain?”
“On the contrary. No. 1
