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"If Andover is the 155th name under A，then the B crime should be the155th also-or it should be the 156th and the C the 157th.Here again thetowns seemed to be chosen in rather too haphazard a fashion." "Isn't that because you're rather biased on that subject，Poirot?"Isuggested."You yourself are normally methodical and orderly.It's almost adisease with you." "No，it is not a disease!Quelle idee!But I admit that I may beover-stressing that point.Passons! "The Churston crime gave me very little extra help.We were unlucky overit，since the letter announcing it went astray，hence no preparations couldbe made.
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"But by the time the D crime was announced，a very formidable system ofdefence had been evolved.It must have been obvious that A B C could not muchlonger hope to get away with his crimes. "Moreover，it was at this point that the clue of the stockings came intomy hand.It was perfectly clear that the presence of an individual sellingstockings on and near the scene of each crime could not be a coincidence. Hence the stocking-seller must be the murderer.I may say that hisdescription，as given me by Miss Grey，did not quite correspond with my ownpicture of the man who strangled Betty Barnard.
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