:38:02
Put that file back where you got it.
I tell you, the case is dead.
:38:06
I'm not going to have it all dug up again
for nothing.
:38:09
Do you understand?
You had no right to go through that file.
:38:12
- Budge had no right to let you get at it.
- Sorry, General.
:38:15
- Mr. Cameron is your assistant...
- Then it's his job to assist me...
:38:19
not go digging into 10-year-old cases
on wild suspicions of his own.
:38:23
- Now then, Budge, you get along.
- Very good, General.
:38:32
What's your interest in this case, anyway?
:38:34
It was rather a famous case...
:38:35
and it impressed me very much
at the time.
:38:38
Besides...
:38:40
I once met Alice Alquist.
I was taken to hear her...
:38:43
at a command performance
when I was 12 years old...
:38:46
and afterwards
to meet her in the artists' room.
:38:50
It sounds silly, but I still think
she was the most beautiful woman...
:38:53
I ever saw, and I've never forgotten her.
:38:57
- And now...
- You've seen someone who looks like her.
:38:59
- Living in the same house.
- Why shouldn't she?
:39:02
If she's the niece,
the house probably belongs to her.
:39:04
And if you're trying to meet
a pretty woman...
:39:06
you've no right to use official business
as an excuse.
:39:09
It's not that, sir.
:39:11
But I tell you, sir, I have a feeling
there's something peculiar going on there.
:39:16
Perhaps even more than peculiar.
:39:18
Look here, Brian, once and for all,
the case was given up as hopeless.
:39:21
As for the matter of the jewels,
that was dropped by order...
:39:26
of a most important personage.
:39:29
Jewels?
:39:32
There's nothing here about jewels.
:39:39
There were some jewels.
They were given to her...
:39:43
by somebody very highly placed.
:39:46
Some of the crown jewels of his...
:39:49
- Of another country, as a matter of fact.
- What happened to them?
:39:53
- They disappeared.
- That's why she was murdered.
:39:56
That was the official theory.
:39:58
Though what the murderer
wanted the jewels for I can't imagine.