November 15, 2024 • 50 mins
Snuggle up to Agatha Christie's "The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge." The episode unfolds with Poirot recovering from illness and thrust into a perplexing murder case brought to him by Captain Hastings. Set in the atmospheric Derbyshire countryside, the murder of the American Harrington Pace at Hunter's Lodge becomes the catalyst for an intricate web of secrets surrounding this intriguing case.
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Right now, as I'm recording this, it's a dreary November day,
with rain pelting against mywindow and a slight draft in my
house, which, honestly, is myfavorite kind of weather.
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It puts me in the mood forsomething like this a mystery
solved by Agatha Christie'sPoirot.
This is the mystery of Hunter'sLodge.
So snuggle up in your blanketsand have sweet dreams.
Thank you.
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After all, murmured Poirot, itis possible that I shall not die
this time.
Coming from a convalescentinfluenza patient, I hailed the
remark as showing a beneficialoptimism.
I myself had been the firstsufferer from the disease.
Poirot, in his turn, had gonedown.
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He was now sitting up in bedpropped up with pillows, his
head muffled in a woolen shawl,and was slowly sipping a
particularly noxious Ddain whichI had prepared according to his
directions.
His eye rested with pleasureupon a neatly graduated row of
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medicine bottles which adornedthe mantelpiece.
Yes, yes, my little friendcontinued.
Yes, my little friend continued.
Once more, I shall be myselfagain, the great Hercule Poirot,
the terror of evildoers.
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Figure to yourself, mon ami,that I have a little paragraph
to myself in society gossip.
But yes, here it is, go it.
Criminals all out.
Hercule Poirot and believe me,girls, he's some Hercules our
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own pet society detective can'tget a grip on you cause, why?
Cause he's got a low grip onhimself.
I laughed good for you, poirot,why?
Because he's got a low grip onhimself.
I laughed Good for you, poirot.
You are becoming quite a publiccharacter and fortunately you
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haven't missed anything ofparticular interest during this
time, that is true.
The few cases I have had todecline did not fill me with any
regret.
Our landlady stuck her head inat the door.
There's a gentleman downstairssays he must see Monsieur
Pierrot, or you, captain.
Seeing as he was in a greatto-do and was all that quite the
gentleman, I brought up hiscard.
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She handed me the bit ofpasteboard, mr Roger Havering.
I read.
Poirot motioned with his headtoward the bookcase and I
obediently pulled forth who'swho.
Poirot took it from me andscanned the pages rapidly.
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Second son of the Fifth Baron,windsor, married 1913.
Zoe.
Fourth daughter of WilliamCrabb.
Hmm, I said I rather fancythat's the girl who used to act
at the frivolity.
I rather fancy that's the girlwho used to act at the frivolity
.
Only she called herself ZoeCarisbrook.
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I remember she married someyoung man about town just before
the war.
Would it interest you, hastings,to go down and hear what our
visitor's particular littletrouble is?
Make him all my excuses.
Roger Havering was a man ofabout forty, well set up and of
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smart appearance.
His face, however, was haggardand he was evidently laboring
under great agitation.
Captain Hastings, you areMonsieur Perrault's partner.
I understand it is imperativethat you should come with me to
Derbyshire today.
I'm afraid that's impossible.
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I replied while Roe was stillin bed influenza.
His face fell Dear me.
That is a great blow to me.
The matter on which you want toconsult him is serious.
My God, yes, my uncle, the bestfriend I have in the world, was
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foully murdered last night herein London no, in Derbyshire.
I was in town and received atelegram from my wife this
morning.
Immediately upon its receipt, Idetermined to come round and
beg Monsieur Perrault toundertake the case to Poirot.
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To undertake the case, if youwill excuse me a minute, I said,
struck by a sudden idea, Irushed upstairs and in a few
brief words, acquainted Poirotwith the situation.
He took any further words outof my mouth.
I see, I see you want to goyourself, is it not so Well, why
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not?
You should know my methods bynow.
All I ask is that you shouldreport to me fully every day and
follow implicitly anyinstructions.
I may wire you To this.
I willingly agreed To this.
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I willingly agreed.
An hour later, I was sittingopposite Mr Hovering in a first
going, and where the tragedytook place is only a small
shooting box in the heart of theDerbyshire Moors.
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Our real home is near Newmarketand we usually rent a flat in
town for the season.
Hunter's Lodge is looked afterby a housekeeper who is quite
capable of doing all we need.
When we run down for anoccasional weekend, of course
during the shooting season wetake down some of our servants
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from New Market.
My uncle, mr Harrington Pace asyou may know, my mother was a
Miss Pace of New York has forthe last three years made his
home with us.
He never got on well with myfather or my elder brother and I
suspect that my being somewhatof a prodigal son myself rather
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increased than diminished hisaffection towards me.
Of course I am a poor man andmy uncle was a rich one.
In other words he paid thepiper but though exacting in
many ways, he was not reallyhard to get on with and we all
three limped very harmoniouslytogether.
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Two days ago my uncle, ratherwearied with some recent
ingaieties of ours in town,suggested that we should run
down to Derbyshire for a day ortwo.
My wife telegraphed to MrsMiddleton, the housekeeper, and
we went down that same afternoon.
Yesterday evening I was forcedto return to town but my wife
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and my uncle remained on.
This morning I received thistelegram.
He handed it over to me.
Come at once Uncle Harringtonmurdered last night.
Bring good detective if you can, but do come Zoe Then.
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As yet you know no details.
No, I suppose it will be in theevening papers.
Without doubt the police are incharge.
It was about three o'clock whenwe arrived at the little station
of Elmersdale.
From there, a five-mile drivebrought us to a small greystone
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building in the midst of therugged moors, a lonely place, I
observed with a shiver.
Havering nodded.
I shall try and get rid of it.
I can never live here again.
I shall try and get rid of it.
I can never live here again.
We unlatched the gate and werewalking up the narrow path to
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the oak door when a familiarfigure emerged and came to meet
us.
Jump, I ejaculated.
The Scotland Yard inspectorgrinned at me in a friendly
fashion before addressing mycompanion, mr Havring.
I think I've been sent down fromLondon to take charge of this.
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I'd like a word with you, if Imay, sir, my wife.
I've seen your good lady sirand the housekeeper.
I won't keep you a moment, butI'm anxious to get back to the
village.
Now that I've seen your goodlady sir and the housekeeper, I
won't keep you a moment, but I'manxious to get back to the
village now that I've seen allthere is to see here.
I know nothing as yet as towhat Exactly said Japs
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soothingly, but there are justone or two little points I'd
like your opinion about all thesame.
Captain Hastings here, he knowsme and he'll go on up to the
house and tell them you'recoming.
What have you done with thelittle man?
By the way, captain Hastings,he's ill in bed with influenza,
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is he now?
I'm sorry to hear that.
Rather the case of the cartwithout the horse.
You're being here without him,isn't it?
And on his rather ill-timedjest, I went on into the house.
I rang the bell, as Jap hadclosed the door behind him.
After some moments it wasopened to me by a middle-aged
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woman in black.
Mr Havering will be here in amoment.
I explained.
He has been detained by theinspector.
I've come down with him fromLondon to look into the case.
Perhaps you could tell mebriefly what occurred last night
.
Come inside, sir.
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She closed the door behind meand we stood in the dimly
lighted hall.
It was after dinner last night,sir, that the man came.
He asked to see Mr Pace, sir,and seeing that he spoke the
same way.
I thought it was an Americangentleman, friend of Mr Pace,
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sir, and seeing that he spokethe same way, I thought it was
an American gentleman, friend ofMr Pace's, and I showed him
into the gun room and then wentto tell Mr Pace he wouldn't give
any name, which of course was abit odd.
Now I come to think of it, Itold Mr Pace and he seemed
puzzled like.
But he said to the mistressexcuse me, zoe, while I see what
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this fellow wants, he went offto the gun room and I went back
to the kitchen, but after awhile I heard loud voices as if
they were quarreling, and I cameout into the hall At the same
time the mistress, she comes outtoo.
And just then there was a shotand then a dreadful silence.
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We both ran to the gunroom doorbut it was locked and we had to
go round to the window.
It was open and there insidewas Mr Pace all shot and
bleeding.
What became of the man?
He must have got away throughthe window, sir, before we got
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to it.
And then Mrs Havering sent meto fetch the police.
Five miles to walk, it was.
They came back with me and theconstable.
He stayed all night and thismorning the police gentleman
from London arrived.
What was this man like, whocalled to see Mr Pace?
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The housekeeper reflected hehad a black beard, sir, and was
about middle-aged and hung on alight overcoat.
Beyond the fact that he spokelike an American, I didn't
notice much about him.
I see Now I wonder if I can seeMrs Havering.
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She's upstairs, sir.
Shall I tell her, if you pleasetell her, that Mr Havering is
outside with Inspector Japp andthat the gentleman he has
brought back with him fromLondon is anxious to speak to
her as soon as possible.
Very good sir.
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I was in a fever of impatienceto get all the facts.
Drab had two or three hoursstart of me and his excited
begun made me keen to be closeat his heels.
Mrs Havering did not keep mewaiting long.
In a few minutes I heard alight step descending the stairs
and looked up to see a veryhandsome young woman coming
towards me.
In a few minutes I heard alight step descending the stairs
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and looked up to see a veryhandsome young woman coming
towards me.
She wore a flame-colored jumperthat set off the slender
boyishness of her figure.
On her dark head was a littlehat of flame-colored leather.
Even the present tragedy couldnot dim the vitality of her
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personality.
I introduced myself and shenodded in quick comprehension.
Of course I have often heard ofyou and your colleague,
monsieur Poirot.
You have done some wonderfulthings together, haven't you?
It was very clever of myhusband to get to you so
promptly.
Now will you ask me questions.
That is the easiest way, isn'tit, of getting to know all you
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want about this dreadful affair.
Thank you, mrs Havering.
Now, what time was it that thisman arrived?
It must have been just beforenine o'clock.
We had finished dinner and wewere sitting over a coffee and
cigarettes.
Your husband had already leftfor London.
Yes, he went out by the 6.15.
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Did he go by car to the stationor did he walk?
Our car isn't down here.
One came out from the garage inElmersdale to fetch him in time
for the train.
Was Mr Pace?
Quite his usual self,absolutely Most normal in every
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way.
Now, can you describe thisvisitor at all?
I'm afraid not.
I didn't see him.
Mrs Middleton showed himstraight into the gunroom and
then came to tell my uncle.
What did your uncle say?
He seemed rather annoyed butwent off at once.
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It was about five minutes laterthat I heard the sound of raised
voices.
It was about five minutes laterthat I heard the sound of
raised voices.
I ran out into the hall andalmost collided with Mrs
Middleton.
Then we heard the shot.
The gunroom door was locked onthe inside and we had to go
right around the house to thewindow.
Of course that took some timeand the murderer had been able
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to get well away.
My poor uncle.
Her voice faltered.
Heaven shot through the head.
I saw it once that he was dead.
I sent Mrs Middleton for thepolice.
I was careful to touch nothingin the room but to leave it
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exactly as I had found it.
I nodded approval.
Now as to the weapon, well, Ican make a guess at it, captain
Hastings.
A pair of revolvers of myhusband's were mounted upon the
wall.
One of them is missing.
I pointed this out to thepolice and they took the other
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one away with them.
When they have extracted thebullet, I suppose they will know
for certain.
May I go to the gun room.
Certainly the police havefinished with it, but the body
has been removed.
She accompanied me to the sceneof the crime.
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At that moment, havering enteredthe hall and, with a quick
apology, his wife ran to him.
I was left to undertake myinvestigations alone.
I may as well confess at oncethat they were rather
disappointing.
In detective novels, cluesabound, but here I could find
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nothing that struck me as out ofthe ordinary, except a large
bloodstain on the carpet where Ijudged the dead man had fallen.
I examined everything withpainstaking care and took a
couple of pictures of the roomwith my little camera, which I'd
brought with me.
I also examined the groundoutside the window, but it
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appeared to have been so heavilytrampled underfoot that I
judged it was useless to wastetime over it.
No, I had seen all thatHunter's Lodge had to show me.
I must go back to Elmersdaleand get into touch with Jap.
Accordingly, I took leave ofthe hoverings and was driven off
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in the car that had brought usup from the station.
I found Jap at the Matlock Armsand he took me forthwith to see
the body.
Harrington Pace was a small,spare, clean-shaven man,
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typically American in appearance.
He had been shot through theback of the head and the
revolver had been discharged atclose quarters.
Discharged at close quarters,turned away for a moment,
remarked Jap, and the otherfellow snatched up a revolver
and shot him.
The one Mrs Havering handedover to us was fully loaded and
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I suppose the other one was alsoCurious.
What darn fool things people do.
Fancy keeping two loadedrevolvers hanging up on your
wall.
What do you think of the case, Iasked as we left the gruesome
chamber behind us.
Well, I'd got my eye onHavering to begin with.
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Oh, yes, noting my exclamationof astonishment.
Havering has one or two shadyincidents in his past.
When he was a boy at Oxfordthere was some funny business
about the signature on one ofhis father's checks All hushed
up, of course.
Then he's pretty heavily indebt now and they're the kind of
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debts he wouldn't like to go tohis uncle about, whereas you
may be sure the uncle's willwould be in his favor.
Yes, I'd got my eye on him andthat's why I wanted to speak to
him before he saw his wife.
But their statements dovetailall right, and I've been to the
station and there's no doubtwhatever that he left by the
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6.15.
I guess, up to London about10.30.
He went straight to his club.
He says, and if that'sconfirmed, all right, why he
couldn't have been shooting hisuncle here at 9 o'clock in a
black beard.
Ah, yes, I was going to ask youwhat you thought about the
beard.
Jack blinked I think it grewpretty fast.
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Grew in the five miles fromElmersdale to Hunter's Lodge.
Americans I have met are mostlyclean-shaven.
Yes, it's amongst Mr Pace'sAmerican associates that will
have to look for the murderer.
I questioned the housekeeperfirst and then her mistress, and
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their stories agree all right,but I'm sorry Mrs Havering
didn't get a look at the fellow.
She's a smart woman and shemight have noticed something
that would set us on the track.
That would set us on the track.
I sat down and wrote a minuteand linked the account to Poirot
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.
I was able to add variousfurther items of information
before I posted the letter.
The bullet had been extractedand was proved to have been
fired from a revolver identicalwith the one held by the police.
Furthermore, mr Havering'smovements on the night in
question had been checked andverified and it was proved
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beyond doubt that he hadactually arrived in London by
the train in question.
And thirdly, a sensationaldevelopment had occurred A city
gentleman living at Ealing, onCrossing Haven Green to get to
the district railway stationthat morning, had observed a
brown paper parcel stuck betweenthe railings.
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Opening it, he found that itcontained a revolver.
He handed the parcel over to alocal police station and before
night it was proved to be theone we were in search of, the
fellow to that given by MrsHavering.
One bullet had been fired fromit.
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All this I added to my report.
A wire from Poirot arrivedwhilst I was at breakfast the
following morning.
Of course Blackbearded man wasnot Havering.
Only you or Jap would have suchan idea.
Why are me description ofhousekeeper and what clothes she
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wore this morning Same of MrsHaffering?
Do not waste time takingphotographs of interiors.
They are underexposed and notin the least artistic.
It seemed to me that Poirot'sstyle was unnecessarily
facetious.
I also fancied he was a shadejealous of my position on the
spot with full facilities forhandling the case.
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His request for a descriptionof clothes worn by the two women
appeared to me to be simplyridiculous.
But I complied as well as I, amere man, was able to.
At eleven, a reply wire camefrom Poirot.
At eleven, a reply wire camefrom Poirot Advise Jap, arrest
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housekeeper before it is toolate.
Dumbfounded, I took the wire toJap.
He swore softly under hisbreath he's the good, monsieur
Poirot.
If he says so, there'ssomething in it and I hardly
notice the woman.
I don't know that I can go sofar as arresting her, but I'll
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have her watched.
We'll go up right away and takeanother look at her, but it was
too late.
Mrs Middleton, a quiet,middle-aged woman who had only
appeared so normal andrespectable, had vanished into
thin air.
Her box had been left behind.
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It contained only ordinarywearing apparel.
There was no clue in it toidentity or as to her
whereabouts.
From Mrs Havering we elicitedall the facts we could.
I engaged her about three weeksago when Mrs Emery, our former
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housekeeper, left.
She came to me from MrsSelborne's agency in Mount
Street, a very well-known place.
I get all my servants fromthere.
They sent several women to seeme, but this Mrs Middleton
seemed much the nicest and hadsplendid references.
I engaged her on the spot andnotified the agency of the fact.
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I can't believe that there wasanything wrong with her.
I engaged her on the spot andnotified the agency of the fact.
I can't believe that there wasanything wrong with her.
She was such a nice, quietwoman.
The thing was certainly amystery, whilst it was clear
that the woman herself could nothave committed the crime since
at the moment the shot was firedMrs Havering was with her in
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the hall.
Nevertheless, she must havesome connection with the
murderer, or why should shesuddenly take to her heels and
bolt?
I wired the latest developmentto Poirot and suggested
returning to London and makinginquiries at Selborne's agency.
Poirot's reply was promptUseless to inquire at agency.
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They will never have heard ofher and find out what vehicle
took her up to Hunter's Lodge.
When she first arrived there,though mystified, I was obedient
.
The means of transport toNelmersdale were limited.
The local garage had twobattered Ford cars and there
were two station flies.
None of these had beenrequisitioned on the date in
question.
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Questioned, mrs Hoveringexplained that she had given the
woman the money for her faredown to Derbyshire and
sufficient to hire a car or flyto take her up to Hunter's Lodge
.
There was usually one of theFords at the station on the
chance of it being required.
Taking into consideration thefurther fact that nobody at the
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station had noticed the arrivalof a stranger, black-bearded or
otherwise, on the fatal evening,everything seemed to point to
the conclusion that the murdererhad come to the spot in a car
which had been waiting near athand to aid his escape and that
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the same car had brought themysterious housekeeper to her
new post and that the same carhad brought the mysterious
housekeeper to her new post.
I may mention that inquiries atthe agency in London bore out
Poirot's prognostication no suchwoman as Mrs Middleton had ever
been on their books.
They had received the haunt ofMrs Havering's application for
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her housekeeper and had sent hervarious applicants for the post
.
When she sent them theengagement fee, she omitted to
mention which woman she hadselected.
Somewhat crestfallen I returnedto London.
Somewhat crestfallen I returnedto London.
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I found Poirot established inan armchair by the fire in a
garish silk dressing gown.
He greeted me with muchaffection, mon ami Hastings.
But how glad I am to see you.
Veritably, I have for you agreat affection and you have
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enjoyed yourself.
You have run to and fro with agood job.
You have interrogated andinvestigated to your heart's
content, poirot, I cried.
The thing's a dark mystery.
It will never be solved.
It is true that we are notlikely to cover ourselves with
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glory over it.
No, indeed, it's a hard nut tocrack.
Oh, as far as that goes, I amvery good at cracking the nuts,
a veritable squirrel.
It is not that whichembarrasses me.
I know well enough who killedMr Harrington Pace.
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You know how did you find out.
Your illuminating answers to mywires supplied me with the
truth.
See here, hastings.
Let us examine the factsmethodically and in order.
Mr Harrington Pace is a manwith a considerable fortune
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which, at his death, willdoubtless pass to his nephew.
Point number one his nephew isknown to be desperately hard up.
Point number two his nephew isalso known to be, shall we say,
a man of rather loose moralfiber.
Point number three but RogerHavering has proved to have
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journeyed straight up to London,precisely.
And therefore, as Mr Haveringleft Elmersdale at 6.15, and
since Mr Pace cannot have beenkilled before he left or the
doctor would have spotted thetime of the crime as being given
wrongly when he examined thebody, we conclude quite rightly
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that Mr Havering did not shoothis uncle.
But there is a Mrs HaveringHastings Impossible.
The housekeeper was with herwhen the shot fired.
Ah yes, the housekeeper, butshe has disappeared.
She will be found?
I think not.
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There is something peculiarlyelusive about that housekeeper,
don't you think so, hastings?
It struck me at once.
She played her part, I suppose.
And then got out in the nick oftime.
And what was her part?
Well, presumably to admit herconfederate, the black-bearded
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man.
Oh no, that was not her part.
Her part was what you have justmentioned to provide an alibi
for Mrs Havering at the moment.
The shot was fired and no onewill ever find her, mon ami,
because she does not exist.
There is no such person as yourso great Shakespeare says.
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It was Dickens, I murmured,unable to suppress a smile.
But what do you mean, poirot?
I mean that Zoe Havering was anactress before her marriage.
That you and Jap only saw thehousekeeper in a dark hall, a
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dim, middle-aged figure in blackwith a faint, subdued voice
middle-aged figure in black witha faint, subdued voice.
And, finally, that neither younor Jap nor the local police
whom the housekeeper fetchedever saw Mrs Middleton and her
mistress at one and the sametime.
It was child's play for thatclever and daring woman.
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On the pretext of summoning hermistress, she runs upstairs,
slips on a bright jumper and ahat with black curls attached,
but she jams down over the greytransformation.
A few deaf touches and themakeup is removed.
A slight dusting of rouge andthe brilliant Zoe Hovering comes
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down with a clear, ringingvoice.
Nobody looks particularly atthe housekeeper.
Why should they?
There is nothing to connect herwith the crime.
She too has an alibi.
But the revolver that was founddealing Mrs Havring could not
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have placed it there.
No, that was Roger Havring'sjob.
But it was a mistake on theirpart.
It put me on the right track.
A man who has committed amurder with a revolver which he
found on the spot would fling itaway at once.
He would not carry it up toLondon with him.
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No, the motive was clear.
The criminals wished to focusthe interest of the police on a
spot far removed from Derbyshire.
They were anxious to get thepolice away as soon as possible
from the vicinity of Hunter'sLodge.
Of course, the revolver foundat Ealing was not the one with
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which Mr Pace was shot.
Roger Havering discharged oneshot from it, brought it up to
London, went straight to hisclub to establish his alibi and
then went quickly out to Ealingby the district, a matter of
about twenty minutes only placedthe parcel where it was found.
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And so back to town.
That charming creature, hiswife.
Back to town, that charmingcreature, his wife quietly
shoots Mr Pace after dinner.
You remember he was shot frombehind.
Another significant point thatReloads the revolver and puts it
back in its place and thenstarts off with her desperate
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little comedy.
It's incredible, I murmured,fascinated, and yet, and yet it
is true.
And so, my friend, it is true.
But to bring that precious pairto justice, that is another
matter.
Well, jack must do what he can.
I have written him fully.
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But I very much fear, hastings,that we shall be obliged to
leave them to fate or the Bondu,whichever you prefer, the
wicked flourish like a green baytree, I reminded him, but at a
price, hastings.
Always at a price.
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He stings, always at a price.
Poirot's forebodings wereconfirmed.
Jatt, though convinced of thetruth of his theory, was unable
to get together the necessaryevidence to ensure a conviction.
Mr Pace's huge fortune to gettogether the necessary evidence
to ensure a conviction, mrPace's huge fortune passed into
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the hands of his murderers.
Nevertheless, nemesis didovertake them, and when I read
in the paper that the HonorableRoger and Mrs Havering were
amongst those killed in thecrashing of the airmail to Paris
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It puts me in the mood forsomething like this a mystery
solved by Agatha Christie'sPoirot.
This is the mystery of Hunter'sLodge.
So snuggle up in your blanketsand have sweet dreams.
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After all, murmured Poirot, itis possible that I shall not die
this time.
Coming from a convalescentinfluenza patient, I hailed the
remark as showing a beneficialoptimism.
I myself had been the firstsufferer from the disease.
Poirot, in his turn, had gonedown.
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He was now sitting up in bedpropped up with pillows, his
head muffled in a woolen shawl,and was slowly sipping a
particularly noxious Ddain whichI had prepared according to his
directions.
His eye rested with pleasureupon a neatly graduated row of
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medicine bottles which adornedthe mantelpiece.
Yes, yes, my little friendcontinued.
Yes, my little friend continued.
Once more, I shall be myselfagain, the great Hercule Poirot,
the terror of evildoers.
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Figure to yourself, mon ami,that I have a little paragraph
to myself in society gossip.
But yes, here it is, go it.
Criminals all out.
Hercule Poirot and believe me,girls, he's some Hercules our
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own pet society detective can'tget a grip on you cause, why?
Cause he's got a low grip onhimself.
I laughed good for you, poirot,why?
Because he's got a low grip onhimself.
I laughed Good for you, poirot.
You are becoming quite a publiccharacter and fortunately you
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haven't missed anything ofparticular interest during this
time, that is true.
The few cases I have had todecline did not fill me with any
regret.
Our landlady stuck her head inat the door.
There's a gentleman downstairssays he must see Monsieur
Pierrot, or you, captain.
Seeing as he was in a greatto-do and was all that quite the
gentleman, I brought up hiscard.
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She handed me the bit ofpasteboard, mr Roger Havering.
I read.
Poirot motioned with his headtoward the bookcase and I
obediently pulled forth who'swho.
Poirot took it from me andscanned the pages rapidly.
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Second son of the Fifth Baron,windsor, married 1913.
Zoe.
Fourth daughter of WilliamCrabb.
Hmm, I said I rather fancythat's the girl who used to act
at the frivolity.
I rather fancy that's the girlwho used to act at the frivolity
.
Only she called herself ZoeCarisbrook.
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I remember she married someyoung man about town just before
the war.
Would it interest you, hastings,to go down and hear what our
visitor's particular littletrouble is?
Make him all my excuses.
Roger Havering was a man ofabout forty, well set up and of
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smart appearance.
His face, however, was haggardand he was evidently laboring
under great agitation.
Captain Hastings, you areMonsieur Perrault's partner.
I understand it is imperativethat you should come with me to
Derbyshire today.
I'm afraid that's impossible.
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I replied while Roe was stillin bed influenza.
His face fell Dear me.
That is a great blow to me.
The matter on which you want toconsult him is serious.
My God, yes, my uncle, the bestfriend I have in the world, was
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foully murdered last night herein London no, in Derbyshire.
I was in town and received atelegram from my wife this
morning.
Immediately upon its receipt, Idetermined to come round and
beg Monsieur Perrault toundertake the case to Poirot.
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To undertake the case, if youwill excuse me a minute, I said,
struck by a sudden idea, Irushed upstairs and in a few
brief words, acquainted Poirotwith the situation.
He took any further words outof my mouth.
I see, I see you want to goyourself, is it not so Well, why
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not?
You should know my methods bynow.
All I ask is that you shouldreport to me fully every day and
follow implicitly anyinstructions.
I may wire you To this.
I willingly agreed To this.
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I willingly agreed.
An hour later, I was sittingopposite Mr Hovering in a first
going, and where the tragedytook place is only a small
shooting box in the heart of theDerbyshire Moors.
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Our real home is near Newmarketand we usually rent a flat in
town for the season.
Hunter's Lodge is looked afterby a housekeeper who is quite
capable of doing all we need.
When we run down for anoccasional weekend, of course
during the shooting season wetake down some of our servants
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from New Market.
My uncle, mr Harrington Pace asyou may know, my mother was a
Miss Pace of New York has forthe last three years made his
home with us.
He never got on well with myfather or my elder brother and I
suspect that my being somewhatof a prodigal son myself rather
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increased than diminished hisaffection towards me.
Of course I am a poor man andmy uncle was a rich one.
In other words he paid thepiper but though exacting in
many ways, he was not reallyhard to get on with and we all
three limped very harmoniouslytogether.
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Two days ago my uncle, ratherwearied with some recent
ingaieties of ours in town,suggested that we should run
down to Derbyshire for a day ortwo.
My wife telegraphed to MrsMiddleton, the housekeeper, and
we went down that same afternoon.
Yesterday evening I was forcedto return to town but my wife
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and my uncle remained on.
This morning I received thistelegram.
He handed it over to me.
Come at once Uncle Harringtonmurdered last night.
Bring good detective if you can, but do come Zoe Then.
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As yet you know no details.
No, I suppose it will be in theevening papers.
Without doubt the police are incharge.
It was about three o'clock whenwe arrived at the little station
of Elmersdale.
From there, a five-mile drivebrought us to a small greystone
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building in the midst of therugged moors, a lonely place, I
observed with a shiver.
Havering nodded.
I shall try and get rid of it.
I can never live here again.
I shall try and get rid of it.
I can never live here again.
We unlatched the gate and werewalking up the narrow path to
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the oak door when a familiarfigure emerged and came to meet
us.
Jump, I ejaculated.
The Scotland Yard inspectorgrinned at me in a friendly
fashion before addressing mycompanion, mr Havring.
I think I've been sent down fromLondon to take charge of this.
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I'd like a word with you, if Imay, sir, my wife.
I've seen your good lady sirand the housekeeper.
I won't keep you a moment, butI'm anxious to get back to the
village.
Now that I've seen your goodlady sir and the housekeeper, I
won't keep you a moment, but I'manxious to get back to the
village now that I've seen allthere is to see here.
I know nothing as yet as towhat Exactly said Japs
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soothingly, but there are justone or two little points I'd
like your opinion about all thesame.
Captain Hastings here, he knowsme and he'll go on up to the
house and tell them you'recoming.
What have you done with thelittle man?
By the way, captain Hastings,he's ill in bed with influenza,
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is he now?
I'm sorry to hear that.
Rather the case of the cartwithout the horse.
You're being here without him,isn't it?
And on his rather ill-timedjest, I went on into the house.
I rang the bell, as Jap hadclosed the door behind him.
After some moments it wasopened to me by a middle-aged
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woman in black.
Mr Havering will be here in amoment.
I explained.
He has been detained by theinspector.
I've come down with him fromLondon to look into the case.
Perhaps you could tell mebriefly what occurred last night
.
Come inside, sir.
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She closed the door behind meand we stood in the dimly
lighted hall.
It was after dinner last night,sir, that the man came.
He asked to see Mr Pace, sir,and seeing that he spoke the
same way.
I thought it was an Americangentleman, friend of Mr Pace,
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sir, and seeing that he spokethe same way, I thought it was
an American gentleman, friend ofMr Pace's, and I showed him
into the gun room and then wentto tell Mr Pace he wouldn't give
any name, which of course was abit odd.
Now I come to think of it, Itold Mr Pace and he seemed
puzzled like.
But he said to the mistressexcuse me, zoe, while I see what
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this fellow wants, he went offto the gun room and I went back
to the kitchen, but after awhile I heard loud voices as if
they were quarreling, and I cameout into the hall At the same
time the mistress, she comes outtoo.
And just then there was a shotand then a dreadful silence.
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We both ran to the gunroom doorbut it was locked and we had to
go round to the window.
It was open and there insidewas Mr Pace all shot and
bleeding.
What became of the man?
He must have got away throughthe window, sir, before we got
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to it.
And then Mrs Havering sent meto fetch the police.
Five miles to walk, it was.
They came back with me and theconstable.
He stayed all night and thismorning the police gentleman
from London arrived.
What was this man like, whocalled to see Mr Pace?
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The housekeeper reflected hehad a black beard, sir, and was
about middle-aged and hung on alight overcoat.
Beyond the fact that he spokelike an American, I didn't
notice much about him.
I see Now I wonder if I can seeMrs Havering.
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She's upstairs, sir.
Shall I tell her, if you pleasetell her, that Mr Havering is
outside with Inspector Japp andthat the gentleman he has
brought back with him fromLondon is anxious to speak to
her as soon as possible.
Very good sir.
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I was in a fever of impatienceto get all the facts.
Drab had two or three hoursstart of me and his excited
begun made me keen to be closeat his heels.
Mrs Havering did not keep mewaiting long.
In a few minutes I heard alight step descending the stairs
and looked up to see a veryhandsome young woman coming
towards me.
In a few minutes I heard alight step descending the stairs
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and looked up to see a veryhandsome young woman coming
towards me.
She wore a flame-colored jumperthat set off the slender
boyishness of her figure.
On her dark head was a littlehat of flame-colored leather.
Even the present tragedy couldnot dim the vitality of her
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personality.
I introduced myself and shenodded in quick comprehension.
Of course I have often heard ofyou and your colleague,
monsieur Poirot.
You have done some wonderfulthings together, haven't you?
It was very clever of myhusband to get to you so
promptly.
Now will you ask me questions.
That is the easiest way, isn'tit, of getting to know all you
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want about this dreadful affair.
Thank you, mrs Havering.
Now, what time was it that thisman arrived?
It must have been just beforenine o'clock.
We had finished dinner and wewere sitting over a coffee and
cigarettes.
Your husband had already leftfor London.
Yes, he went out by the 6.15.
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Did he go by car to the stationor did he walk?
Our car isn't down here.
One came out from the garage inElmersdale to fetch him in time
for the train.
Was Mr Pace?
Quite his usual self,absolutely Most normal in every
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way.
Now, can you describe thisvisitor at all?
I'm afraid not.
I didn't see him.
Mrs Middleton showed himstraight into the gunroom and
then came to tell my uncle.
What did your uncle say?
He seemed rather annoyed butwent off at once.
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It was about five minutes laterthat I heard the sound of raised
voices.
It was about five minutes laterthat I heard the sound of
raised voices.
I ran out into the hall andalmost collided with Mrs
Middleton.
Then we heard the shot.
The gunroom door was locked onthe inside and we had to go
right around the house to thewindow.
Of course that took some timeand the murderer had been able
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to get well away.
My poor uncle.
Her voice faltered.
Heaven shot through the head.
I saw it once that he was dead.
I sent Mrs Middleton for thepolice.
I was careful to touch nothingin the room but to leave it
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exactly as I had found it.
I nodded approval.
Now as to the weapon, well, Ican make a guess at it, captain
Hastings.
A pair of revolvers of myhusband's were mounted upon the
wall.
One of them is missing.
I pointed this out to thepolice and they took the other
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one away with them.
When they have extracted thebullet, I suppose they will know
for certain.
May I go to the gun room.
Certainly the police havefinished with it, but the body
has been removed.
She accompanied me to the sceneof the crime.
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At that moment, havering enteredthe hall and, with a quick
apology, his wife ran to him.
I was left to undertake myinvestigations alone.
I may as well confess at oncethat they were rather
disappointing.
In detective novels, cluesabound, but here I could find
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nothing that struck me as out ofthe ordinary, except a large
bloodstain on the carpet where Ijudged the dead man had fallen.
I examined everything withpainstaking care and took a
couple of pictures of the roomwith my little camera, which I'd
brought with me.
I also examined the groundoutside the window, but it
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appeared to have been so heavilytrampled underfoot that I
judged it was useless to wastetime over it.
No, I had seen all thatHunter's Lodge had to show me.
I must go back to Elmersdaleand get into touch with Jap.
Accordingly, I took leave ofthe hoverings and was driven off
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in the car that had brought usup from the station.
I found Jap at the Matlock Armsand he took me forthwith to see
the body.
Harrington Pace was a small,spare, clean-shaven man,
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typically American in appearance.
He had been shot through theback of the head and the
revolver had been discharged atclose quarters.
Discharged at close quarters,turned away for a moment,
remarked Jap, and the otherfellow snatched up a revolver
and shot him.
The one Mrs Havering handedover to us was fully loaded and
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I suppose the other one was alsoCurious.
What darn fool things people do.
Fancy keeping two loadedrevolvers hanging up on your
wall.
What do you think of the case, Iasked as we left the gruesome
chamber behind us.
Well, I'd got my eye onHavering to begin with.
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Oh, yes, noting my exclamationof astonishment.
Havering has one or two shadyincidents in his past.
When he was a boy at Oxfordthere was some funny business
about the signature on one ofhis father's checks All hushed
up, of course.
Then he's pretty heavily indebt now and they're the kind of
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debts he wouldn't like to go tohis uncle about, whereas you
may be sure the uncle's willwould be in his favor.
Yes, I'd got my eye on him andthat's why I wanted to speak to
him before he saw his wife.
But their statements dovetailall right, and I've been to the
station and there's no doubtwhatever that he left by the
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6.15.
I guess, up to London about10.30.
He went straight to his club.
He says, and if that'sconfirmed, all right, why he
couldn't have been shooting hisuncle here at 9 o'clock in a
black beard.
Ah, yes, I was going to ask youwhat you thought about the
beard.
Jack blinked I think it grewpretty fast.
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Grew in the five miles fromElmersdale to Hunter's Lodge.
Americans I have met are mostlyclean-shaven.
Yes, it's amongst Mr Pace'sAmerican associates that will
have to look for the murderer.
I questioned the housekeeperfirst and then her mistress, and
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their stories agree all right,but I'm sorry Mrs Havering
didn't get a look at the fellow.
She's a smart woman and shemight have noticed something
that would set us on the track.
That would set us on the track.
I sat down and wrote a minuteand linked the account to Poirot
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.
I was able to add variousfurther items of information
before I posted the letter.
The bullet had been extractedand was proved to have been
fired from a revolver identicalwith the one held by the police.
Furthermore, mr Havering'smovements on the night in
question had been checked andverified and it was proved
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beyond doubt that he hadactually arrived in London by
the train in question.
And thirdly, a sensationaldevelopment had occurred A city
gentleman living at Ealing, onCrossing Haven Green to get to
the district railway stationthat morning, had observed a
brown paper parcel stuck betweenthe railings.
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Opening it, he found that itcontained a revolver.
He handed the parcel over to alocal police station and before
night it was proved to be theone we were in search of, the
fellow to that given by MrsHavering.
One bullet had been fired fromit.
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All this I added to my report.
A wire from Poirot arrivedwhilst I was at breakfast the
following morning.
Of course Blackbearded man wasnot Havering.
Only you or Jap would have suchan idea.
Why are me description ofhousekeeper and what clothes she
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wore this morning Same of MrsHaffering?
Do not waste time takingphotographs of interiors.
They are underexposed and notin the least artistic.
It seemed to me that Poirot'sstyle was unnecessarily
facetious.
I also fancied he was a shadejealous of my position on the
spot with full facilities forhandling the case.
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His request for a descriptionof clothes worn by the two women
appeared to me to be simplyridiculous.
But I complied as well as I, amere man, was able to.
At eleven, a reply wire camefrom Poirot.
At eleven, a reply wire camefrom Poirot Advise Jap, arrest
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housekeeper before it is toolate.
Dumbfounded, I took the wire toJap.
He swore softly under hisbreath he's the good, monsieur
Poirot.
If he says so, there'ssomething in it and I hardly
notice the woman.
I don't know that I can go sofar as arresting her, but I'll
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have her watched.
We'll go up right away and takeanother look at her, but it was
too late.
Mrs Middleton, a quiet,middle-aged woman who had only
appeared so normal andrespectable, had vanished into
thin air.
Her box had been left behind.
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It contained only ordinarywearing apparel.
There was no clue in it toidentity or as to her
whereabouts.
From Mrs Havering we elicitedall the facts we could.
I engaged her about three weeksago when Mrs Emery, our former
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housekeeper, left.
She came to me from MrsSelborne's agency in Mount
Street, a very well-known place.
I get all my servants fromthere.
They sent several women to seeme, but this Mrs Middleton
seemed much the nicest and hadsplendid references.
I engaged her on the spot andnotified the agency of the fact.
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I can't believe that there wasanything wrong with her.
I engaged her on the spot andnotified the agency of the fact.
I can't believe that there wasanything wrong with her.
She was such a nice, quietwoman.
The thing was certainly amystery, whilst it was clear
that the woman herself could nothave committed the crime since
at the moment the shot was firedMrs Havering was with her in
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the hall.
Nevertheless, she must havesome connection with the
murderer, or why should shesuddenly take to her heels and
bolt?
I wired the latest developmentto Poirot and suggested
returning to London and makinginquiries at Selborne's agency.
Poirot's reply was promptUseless to inquire at agency.
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They will never have heard ofher and find out what vehicle
took her up to Hunter's Lodge.
When she first arrived there,though mystified, I was obedient
.
The means of transport toNelmersdale were limited.
The local garage had twobattered Ford cars and there
were two station flies.
None of these had beenrequisitioned on the date in
question.
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Questioned, mrs Hoveringexplained that she had given the
woman the money for her faredown to Derbyshire and
sufficient to hire a car or flyto take her up to Hunter's Lodge
.
There was usually one of theFords at the station on the
chance of it being required.
Taking into consideration thefurther fact that nobody at the
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station had noticed the arrivalof a stranger, black-bearded or
otherwise, on the fatal evening,everything seemed to point to
the conclusion that the murdererhad come to the spot in a car
which had been waiting near athand to aid his escape and that
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the same car had brought themysterious housekeeper to her
new post and that the same carhad brought the mysterious
housekeeper to her new post.
I may mention that inquiries atthe agency in London bore out
Poirot's prognostication no suchwoman as Mrs Middleton had ever
been on their books.
They had received the haunt ofMrs Havering's application for
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her housekeeper and had sent hervarious applicants for the post
.
When she sent them theengagement fee, she omitted to
mention which woman she hadselected.
Somewhat crestfallen I returnedto London.
Somewhat crestfallen I returnedto London.
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I found Poirot established inan armchair by the fire in a
garish silk dressing gown.
He greeted me with muchaffection, mon ami Hastings.
But how glad I am to see you.
Veritably, I have for you agreat affection and you have
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enjoyed yourself.
You have run to and fro with agood job.
You have interrogated andinvestigated to your heart's
content, poirot, I cried.
The thing's a dark mystery.
It will never be solved.
It is true that we are notlikely to cover ourselves with
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glory over it.
No, indeed, it's a hard nut tocrack.
Oh, as far as that goes, I amvery good at cracking the nuts,
a veritable squirrel.
It is not that whichembarrasses me.
I know well enough who killedMr Harrington Pace.
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You know how did you find out.
Your illuminating answers to mywires supplied me with the
truth.
See here, hastings.
Let us examine the factsmethodically and in order.
Mr Harrington Pace is a manwith a considerable fortune
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which, at his death, willdoubtless pass to his nephew.
Point number one his nephew isknown to be desperately hard up.
Point number two his nephew isalso known to be, shall we say,
a man of rather loose moralfiber.
Point number three but RogerHavering has proved to have
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journeyed straight up to London,precisely.
And therefore, as Mr Haveringleft Elmersdale at 6.15, and
since Mr Pace cannot have beenkilled before he left or the
doctor would have spotted thetime of the crime as being given
wrongly when he examined thebody, we conclude quite rightly
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that Mr Havering did not shoothis uncle.
But there is a Mrs HaveringHastings Impossible.
The housekeeper was with herwhen the shot fired.
Ah yes, the housekeeper, butshe has disappeared.
She will be found?
I think not.
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There is something peculiarlyelusive about that housekeeper,
don't you think so, hastings?
It struck me at once.
She played her part, I suppose.
And then got out in the nick oftime.
And what was her part?
Well, presumably to admit herconfederate, the black-bearded
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man.
Oh no, that was not her part.
Her part was what you have justmentioned to provide an alibi
for Mrs Havering at the moment.
The shot was fired and no onewill ever find her, mon ami,
because she does not exist.
There is no such person as yourso great Shakespeare says.
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It was Dickens, I murmured,unable to suppress a smile.
But what do you mean, poirot?
I mean that Zoe Havering was anactress before her marriage.
That you and Jap only saw thehousekeeper in a dark hall, a
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dim, middle-aged figure in blackwith a faint, subdued voice
middle-aged figure in black witha faint, subdued voice.
And, finally, that neither younor Jap nor the local police
whom the housekeeper fetchedever saw Mrs Middleton and her
mistress at one and the sametime.
It was child's play for thatclever and daring woman.
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On the pretext of summoning hermistress, she runs upstairs,
slips on a bright jumper and ahat with black curls attached,
but she jams down over the greytransformation.
A few deaf touches and themakeup is removed.
A slight dusting of rouge andthe brilliant Zoe Hovering comes
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down with a clear, ringingvoice.
Nobody looks particularly atthe housekeeper.
Why should they?
There is nothing to connect herwith the crime.
She too has an alibi.
But the revolver that was founddealing Mrs Havring could not
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have placed it there.
No, that was Roger Havring'sjob.
But it was a mistake on theirpart.
It put me on the right track.
A man who has committed amurder with a revolver which he
found on the spot would fling itaway at once.
He would not carry it up toLondon with him.
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No, the motive was clear.
The criminals wished to focusthe interest of the police on a
spot far removed from Derbyshire.
They were anxious to get thepolice away as soon as possible
from the vicinity of Hunter'sLodge.
Of course, the revolver foundat Ealing was not the one with
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which Mr Pace was shot.
Roger Havering discharged oneshot from it, brought it up to
London, went straight to hisclub to establish his alibi and
then went quickly out to Ealingby the district, a matter of
about twenty minutes only placedthe parcel where it was found.
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And so back to town.
That charming creature, hiswife.
Back to town, that charmingcreature, his wife quietly
shoots Mr Pace after dinner.
You remember he was shot frombehind.
Another significant point thatReloads the revolver and puts it
back in its place and thenstarts off with her desperate
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little comedy.
It's incredible, I murmured,fascinated, and yet, and yet it
is true.
And so, my friend, it is true.
But to bring that precious pairto justice, that is another
matter.
Well, jack must do what he can.
I have written him fully.
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But I very much fear, hastings,that we shall be obliged to
leave them to fate or the Bondu,whichever you prefer, the
wicked flourish like a green baytree, I reminded him, but at a
price, hastings.
Always at a price.
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He stings, always at a price.
Poirot's forebodings wereconfirmed.
Jatt, though convinced of thetruth of his theory, was unable
to get together the necessaryevidence to ensure a conviction.
Mr Pace's huge fortune to gettogether the necessary evidence
to ensure a conviction, mrPace's huge fortune passed into
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the hands of his murderers.
Nevertheless, nemesis didovertake them, and when I read
in the paper that the HonorableRoger and Mrs Havering were
amongst those killed in thecrashing of the airmail to Paris
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