And only the fact that he fired Czesiek shortly after, in a rather machiavellian manner at that - by sending an SMS 'You work here not easy kaput finito', allowed him to reach that 67th position at all.
He reached that 67th position due to a text message he sent.
He has more intelligence than would appear, this longfaced Monsieur Lawrence of yours!" I did not myself think very highly of Lawrence's intelligence; but I forebore to contradict Poirot, and gently took him to task for forgetting my instructions as to which were Cynthia's days off.