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
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