Hercule Poirot - Waiting Out the Rain
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100wordsTitle: Waiting Out the Rain
Fandom: Hercule Poirot
Rating: G
Fandom: Hercule Poirot
Rating: G
"No, no, Japp, I do not need to accompany you," Hercule Poirot said. "I will shelter here in the hotel lounge while you and Hastings go and make the necessary arrests."
Half an hour later a bedraggled Japp and Hastings returned.
"You were not successful I see," Poirot said. "But never mind, I think if you enquire for the occupants of room 47 you will find those you seek."
"If you knew that, why did you let us go out in the rain?" a somewhat irate Japp demanded.
"They had not arrived then. They were, perhaps, delayed by the rain!"
Half an hour later a bedraggled Japp and Hastings returned.
"You were not successful I see," Poirot said. "But never mind, I think if you enquire for the occupants of room 47 you will find those you seek."
"If you knew that, why did you let us go out in the rain?" a somewhat irate Japp demanded.
"They had not arrived then. They were, perhaps, delayed by the rain!"
