text: I must say I think you might have given me a hint . 138 " Perhaps , mon ami , I did not do so , just because he was your old friend . " I was rather disconcerted by this , remembering how I had busily passed on to John what I believed to be Poirot 's views concerning Bauerstein .
  
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  Poirot had certain views concerning someone called Bauerstein .