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The Terrible Catastrophe
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“Poirot?” I murmured.
“You’re in my digs. Everything’s quite all right.”
A cold fear clutched at my heart. His evasion woke a horrible fear.
“Poirot?” I reiterated. “What of Poirot.”
He saw that I had to know and that further evasions were useless.
“By a miracle you escaped—Poirot—did not!”
A cry burst from my lips.
“Not dead? Not dead?”
Ridgeway bowed his head, his features working with emotion.
With desperate energy I pulled myself to a sitting position.
“Poirot may be dead,” I said weakly. “But his spirit lives on. I will carry on his work! Death to the Big Four!”
Then I fell back, fainting.
