波洛圣诞探案记33

PART FIVE,DECEMBER 26TH,The chief constable ¹ and Superintendent ² Sugden stared at Poirot incredulously. The latter returneda stream of small pebbles ³ carefully into a small cardboard box and pushed it across to the chiefconstable.,“Oh, yes, ” he said. “It is the diamonds all right.
”,“And you found them where, did you say? In the garden?”,“In one of the small gardens constructed by Madame Alfred Lee. ”,Poirot said:,“You mean, I suppose, that you do not consider it likely that Mrs. Alfred cut her father-in-law’s throat?
”,Sugden said quickly:,“We know she didn’t do that. I meant it seemed unlikely that she pinched these diamonds.”,Poirot said:,The constable kept his temper,and would not be provoked.那警察压制着自己的怒气，不肯冒起火来。,He was soon promoted to the post of superintendent of Foreign Trade.他很快就被擢升为对外贸易总监 。