悬崖山庄奇案20

Chapter 20 – J.,It was all so sudden that for a moment no one knew what had happened.,Then, with a violent exclamation, Poirot ran to the window. Challenger was with him.,A moment later they reappeared, carrying with them the limp body of a man. As they lowered him carefully into a big leather armchair and his face came into view, I uttered a cry.,'The face-the face at the window...',It was the man I had seen looking in on us the previous evening. I recognized him at once. I realized that when I had said he was hardly human I had exaggerated as Poirot had accused me of doing.,White, weak, depraved-it seemed a mere mask-as though the spirit within had fled long ago.,Down the side of it there trickled a stream of blood.,Frederica came slowly forward till she stood by the chair.,Poirot intercepted her.,'You are hurt, Madame?',