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We were sitting in a state of tense attention to listen to Poirot'sfinal explanation of the case. "All along，"he said，"I have been worried over the why of this case. Hastings said to me the other day that the case was ended.I replied tohimthat the case was the man!The mystery was not the mystery of the murders，but the mystery of A B C?Why did he find it necessary to commit thesemurders.Why did he select me as his adversary? "It is no answer to say that the man was mentally unhinged.To say a mandoes mad things because he is mad is merely unintelligent and stupid.Amadman is as logical and reasoned in his actions as a sane man-given his
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peculiar biased point of view.For example，if a man insist on going out andsquatting about in nothing but a loin cloth his conduct seems eccentric inthe extreme.But once you know that the man himself is firmly convinced thathe is Mahatma Gandhi，then his conduct becomes perfectly reasonable andlogical. "What was necessary in this case was to imagine a mind so constitutedthat it was logical and reasonable to commit four or more murders and toannounce them beforehand by letters written to Hercule Poirot. "My friend Hastings will tell you that from the moment I received thefirsy letter I was upset and disturbed.It seemed to me at once that therewas something very wrong about the letter." "You were quite right，"said Franklin Clarke dryly.
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