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We found M. Hautet awaiting us in the hall, and we all proceeded upstairs together, Francoise marching ahead to show us the way. Poirot went up in a zigzag fashion which puzzled me, until he whispered with a grimace:
"No wonder the servants heard M. Renauld mounting the stairs; not a board of them but creaks fit to wake the dead!"