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Twenty-Two,Colonel Race swore hastily.,“This damned case gets more and more involved.” He picked up the pearls. “I suppose you’venot made a mistake? They look all right to me. ”,“They are a very good imitation—yes.
”,“Now where does that lead us? I suppose Linnet Doyle didn’t deliberately ¹ have an imitationmade and bring it aboard with her for safety. Many women do.”,“I think, if that were so, her husband would know about it. ”,Poirot shook his head in a dissatisfied manner.,“No, I do not think that is so. I was admiring Madame Doyle’s pearls the first evening on theboat—their wonderful sheen and lustre ². I am sure that she was wearing the genuine ones then.
”,“That brings us up against two possibilities. First, that Miss Van Schuyler only stole theimitation string after the real ones had been stolen by someone else. Second, that the wholekleptomaniac story is a fabrication. Either Miss Bowers ³ is a thief, and quickly invented the storyand allayed ⁴ suspicion by handing over the false pearls, or else that whole party is in it together.,That is to say, they are a gang of clever jewel thieves masquerading as an exclusive Americanfamily.”,“Yes, ” Poirot murmured. “It is difficult to say. But I will point out to you one thing—to make aperfect and exact copy of the pearls, clasp and all, good enough to stand a chance of deceivingMadame Doyle, is a highly skilled technical performance. It could not be done in a hurry.,They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。,The sun was shining with uncommon lustre.太阳放射出异常的光彩 。