POSTERN OF FATE Agatha Christie

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'Oh, I'm so glad you feel like that.' 'I think it's a very good thing,' said Tuppence. 'I mean, the White Elephant idea, because it's - well, it is so true, isn't it? I mean, what's one person's white elephant is somebody else's pearl beyond price.' 'Ah, really, we must tell that to the vicar,' said Miss Price-Ridley, an angular lady with a lot of teeth. 'Oh yes, I'm sure he would be very much amused.' 'That papier-mâché basin, for instance,' said Tuppence, raising this particular trophy up. 'Oh really, do you think anyone will buy that?' 'I shall buy it myself if it's for sale when I come here tomorrow,' said Tuppence. 'But surely, nowadays, they have such pretty plastic washing-up bowls.' 'I'm not very fond of plastic,' said Tuppence. 'That's a really good papier-mâché bowl that you've got there. I mean, if you put things down in that, lots of china together, they wouldn't break. And there's an old-fashioned tin-opener too. The kind with a bull's head that one never sees nowadays.' 'Oh, but it's such hard work, that. Don't you think the ones that you put on an electric thing are much better?'
Conversation on these lines went on for a short time and then Tuppence asked if there were any services that she could render. 'Ah, dear Mrs Beresford, perhaps you would arrange the curio stall. I'm sure you're very artistic.' 'Not really artistic at all,' said Tuppence, 'but I would love to arrange the stall for you. You must tell me if I'm doing it wrong,' she added. 'Oh, it's so nice to have some extra help. We are so pleased to meet you, too. I suppose you've nearly settled into your house by now?' 'I thought we should be settled by now,' said Tuppence, 'but it seems as though there's a long time to go still. It's so very hard with electricians and then carpenters and people. They're always coming back.' A slight dispute arose with people near her supporting the claims of electricians and the Gas Board. 'Gas people are the worst,' said Miss Little, with firmness, 'because, you see, they come all the way over from Lower Stamford. The electricity people only have to come from Wellbank.' The arrival of the vicar to say a few words of encouragement and good cheer to the helpers changed the subject. He also expressed himself very pleased to meet his new parishioner, Mrs Beresford. 'We know all about you,' he said. 'Oh yes indeed. And your husband. A most interesting talk I had the other day about you both. What an
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Page 15 and 16: 'Oh yes,' said Tuppence, 'that's be
Page 17 and 18: 'No,' said Tommy, 'I'll do that. I
Page 19 and 20: 'What's puzzling?' 'Well this is Th
Page 21 and 22: 'All right,' said Tommy, 'it makes
Page 23 and 24: Some days before he had had the sam
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Page 29 and 30: 'But there wasn't any Mary Jordan i
Page 31 and 32: 'Poor old fellow, he looks as if he
Page 33 and 34: Tommy was sitting on the top of a p
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Page 43 and 44: 'And there were some Somers I saw,
Page 45 and 46: Amy had been Albert's wife, now som
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Page 57 and 58: 'It made me see why it was so inexp
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Page 63 and 64: 'You mean that she was living in th
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Page 67 and 68: 'I am so very pleased that you and
Page 69 and 70: 'Yes. Yes, you're quite right. Afte
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Page 77 and 78: taught her how to shoot. She'd sit
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Page 81 and 82: 'Can we get inside it?' asked Tuppe
Page 83 and 84: 'One of the Bassington children, th
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Page 89 and 90: 'You mean Truelove?' 'What did you
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'I don't know,' said Tuppence. 'Bot
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'Well, your guesses are very good s
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'I think the German story is just a
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and then you go and make enquiries
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'I don't know - I think it's spelt
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suppose children were so unimportan
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'It's been through a few troubles,'
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When will my true love come back to
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decayed. It was the figure of a boy
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'Oh dear,' said Tuppence, 'now I've
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'A look round at what?' said Tommy.
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'I don't think she is. More likely
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'Well, it's a good word really. It'
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'Yes, he certainly did. He told me
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'No, it doesn't. Not a bit. But it
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'Most unlikely,' said Tommy. 'It wa
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'No,' said Tommy, 'I think people u
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left ear which is most attractive.
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'No. So I went up there and sat dow
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ox. Out in KK, as a matter of fact.
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'Well, don't go on doing your best
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who had uttered it. The trouble wit
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'And helping alcoholics. A lot of s
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'Dear me. What a waste of your acti
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nothing of the kind really. In the
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'Well, I've just got one thing migh
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'Cold afternoon,' said Johnson, sho
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All those children's books. I remem
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'Parkinson,' said Mr Robinson. 'Wai
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to begin with. And dear old Mussoli
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'Got to try and find out things jus
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might be interesting to me, just gi
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'Yes,' said Tommy. 'Yes. It was - i
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'Yes,' said Tommy, 'only now we kno
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'To silence her,' said Tuppence. 'Y
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staying down here, friends of other
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'He didn't really know what to say.
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'No, I don't,' said Tuppence. 'He h
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'That's rather the other way about,
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'Yes, they did. But I don't suppose
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'I hope,' said Tuppence, 'that I'm
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'I know,' said Tuppence. 'Well, I f
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'You're thinking most of them are d
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'You look tired, Tuppence,' said To
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married but did have children, and
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anything your grandmother tells you
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'Oh, poor Isaac,' said Tuppence. 'Y
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'What are you going to do this afte
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excessively dusty and cobwebby in K
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'There used to be a crookey lawn on
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'French or American,' said Tommy, t
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She brought her find out into the o
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'It's a pocket-book,' she said. 'Ye
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They got outside KK. In the air the
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elonged to my grandmother, but it h
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'Not exactly,' said Tommy. 'I'm goi
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'This does seem a very dirty job,'
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James, with a clever manoeuvre, tur
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'Thomas Beresford,' said Colonel Pi
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'Yes,' said Tommy. 'And now you're
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'I don't know anything about her,'
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things always. Violence, swindles,
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about germ warfare? Do we know ever
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'I don't think anything's too fanta
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'Yes. Tuppence has ideas. She think
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'Yes, I understand,' said Tuppence,
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She felt that though she was gettin
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'Isaac!' she said. 'Isaac. Poor old
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'Don't say it again,' said Tommy. '
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'Well, they are in a way,' said Tup
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A flight of birds passed over their
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into the house. Telling us about th
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REMINISCENCES ABOUT AN UNCLE The fo
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'I see,' said Tuppence. 'Well, if y
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'That's right,' said Tuppence. 'Goo
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'Well, he heard from Mick, you know
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'Yes,' said Tuppence, 'if you can h
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'You seem very excited and out of b
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'Well, nothing at the moment,' said
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'It seems a very odd name.' 'His re
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'No,' said Tommy, 'certainly not.'
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she had looked at every single book
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'Oh dear,' said Tuppence. 'Rain, ra
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A large outbreak of voices occurred
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'Well, any time you like, I suppose
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'Oh, shut up, Janet!' said Clarence
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'Ah, so we've got visitors. I'm so
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A very old lady piped up in a thin
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her Aunty Lou. And that was a good
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'No,' said Tommy, 'at least, well,
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'I don't know,' said Tommy. 'I thin
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Both Tommy and Tuppence were entire
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'Well, I don't suppose you'll remem
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'Truelove,' suggested Tommy. He gri
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'Yes. But the Cambridge one is stil
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'Oh well, it was always used to be
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'Yes. Rather like the boat race, is
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investigation. He stuck his nose do
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'Does he ever dig them up again?' a
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There was a sudden sound. Two sharp
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'Never mind your jumper,' said Tomm
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'Can't live down your record, you k
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'Well,' said Tommy, 'I - I see. Yes
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Tommy repeated that remark later as
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'Well, hang on to them for the mome
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'It was well preserved, sewn up in
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'I know what you're going to say. Y
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'No, he's a Manchester Terrier.' 'A
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'People called Jones or something l
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Miss Mullins with a fierce array of
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'One could ask questions?' said Tup
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'You seem to be very well aware of
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'Don't you like it? It's a nice hou
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'I shouldn't think so. Isaac could
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so difficult when you're in bed. I
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'Hullo,' he said. 'Yes? Oh, I see.
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'A very nasty nip,' said Miss Mulli
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'I hope she's a good runner,' said
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imagine I'd like to eat more than a
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society if there's anything called
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'What is it?' 'It's an invitation f
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'Yes, and I made a treacle tart - M
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'You have been doing things.' Debor
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Victorian china garden stools Grin-
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'Not at all a bad idea,' said Debor
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'You and your husband have done a v
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KK Mathilde's stomach Cain and Abel
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war there were young men who gradua
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how Molly went to the Parkinsons' i
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these meetings and the minor offici
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It was drunk enthusiastically. 'And
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