Chapter 30 Chapter 29 Goodbye

There is really nothing more to say. "Father" Lavigny and the other man were arrested by the police in Beirut just as they were about to board the ship. Sela Riley married young Emmott, and I thought that would suit her well.He is not a servile person, he can control her.If she married poor Bill Coleman she would bully him. Incidentally, I was the one who took care of him when he had appendicitis a year ago, and I felt very fond of him, when his guardians were going to send him to South Africa to run a farm. I haven't gone abroad to the East again, it's very strange-sometimes I wish I could go again, I think of the sound of the water wheel and the sound of women washing clothes, and the haughty look of those camels looking at people-so I have a feeling of nostalgia for it. We grew up with a concept that the soil is unhygienic. Now we feel that the soil is not as unhygienic as we imagined.

Dr. Raleigh used to come to see me when I was in England, and I have already said that it was all his trouble. "Take it if you want it, or throw it away if you don't," I said to him. "I know it's grammatically wrong and inappropriate. But this is all I can write." He took it without hesitation.It would make me very uncomfortable if this stuff ever gets published. Mr. Poirot returned to Syria and stayed for about a week. Then he took the Orient Express back home and was involved in another murder.He's smart, I don't deny that.But, he made fun of me like that, and I won't forget it anytime soon.He even pretended that I might be involved in the murder, and he wasn't a nurse at all!

Physicians are like that sometimes, they make jokes and some don't even think about how you feel. I thought over and over of Mrs. Leidner and who she really was.Sometimes I think she's just a horrible woman—and at other times I think back on how nice she was to me, and how soft her voice was—and her lovely blond hair and all—and I think we After all, you should not just blame her, but sympathize with her. Also, I can't help but pity Dr. Leidner.I know he's a double murderer, but that doesn't seem to make any difference.He loves her so much, it hurts to love someone like that.

For some reason, the older I get and the more I understand people in general and how they go when they are sad and sick, the more I feel sorry for everyone.Now, I have to say, sometimes I think of some good, strict principles my aunt used to teach me.I wonder where those principles are now?She is a very religious person and very picky.She knows what our neighbors are doing wrong. Ah, Dr. Rayleigh was right.How can a man stop writing?Ah, if only I could find a really vivid phrase to express that. I'll have to ask Dr. Rayleigh to find an Arabic version for me. Like the one M. Poirot used.

"Allah the Most Merciful, the Merciful..." Saying like that.