 He also asks if anyone from Fernley Park called at her brother's surgery on the day of the murder.She is insistent that no one did and, challenged, recounts the list of patients including an American steward off a liner called the "Baltic" who was passing through the village on his way to Liverpool.Poirot excuses himself – he has to send a cable to a friend in New York and he also tells Margot that he will not be dining at home – he is going to a "mad house"...

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