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POSTERN OF FATE Agatha Christie

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so much as I do at present. It's awfully difficult at first you know<br />

because people look rather alike and wear the same sort of clothes<br />

and you don't know at first which is which. I mean unless somebody is<br />

very beautiful or very ugly. And that doesn't seem to happen so<br />

noticeably in the country, does it?'<br />

'I'm telling you,' said Tommy, 'that Hannibal and I have been extremely<br />

clever.'<br />

'I thought you said it was Hannibal.'<br />

Tommy reached out his hand and took a book from the shelf in front of<br />

him.<br />

'Kidnapped,' he remarked. 'Oh yes, another Robert Louis Stevenson.<br />

Somebody must have been very fond of Robert Louis Stevenson. The<br />

Black Arrow, Kidnapped, Catriona and two others, I think. All given to<br />

Alexander Parkinson by a fond grandmother and one from a generous<br />

aunt.'<br />

'Well,' said Tuppence, 'what about it?'<br />

'And I've found his grave,' said Tommy.<br />

'Found what?'<br />

'Well, Hannibal did. It's right in the corner against one of the small<br />

doors into the church. I suppose it's the door to the vestry, something<br />

like that. It's very rubbed and not well kept up, but that's it. He was<br />

fourteen when he died. Alexander Richard Parkinson. Hannibal was

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