:27:02
He changed back before he
left into these clothes.
:27:05
Do you still maintain, sir,
:27:07
that Mr. Tindle changed into the
clown's costume in the cellar ?
:27:10
- Yes !
- Another part...
:27:13
of the humiliation process, I suppose.
:27:16
Then someone must have carried his clothing...
:27:19
up from the cellar and
placed them in this wardrobe.
:27:22
- I did.
- Why ?
:27:24
Because I felt they'd be better off in
a wardrobe than in a dusty old cellar.
:27:28
More convenient.
:27:30
All screwed up on the floor
of a wardrobe ? Why ?
:27:32
I didn't think it'd be long before he'd
be changing back-- it's all so baffling.
:27:36
Not at all, sir.
:27:40
You threw those clothes on
the floor of the wardrobe...
:27:43
because you knew that Mr. Tindle would
not be needing them again... Ever !
:27:47
That's right, sir, isn't it ?
- He changed back before he left...
:27:51
and wore them when he went away !
:27:53
I think you started this...
:27:55
exactly as you say you did--
:27:58
as a game in order to play a
diabolical trick on Mr. Tindle--
:28:03
but that it went wrong.
:28:05
Your third shot was not a blank,
as you had supposed,
:28:08
but a live bullet that killed
Mr. Tindle stone dead,
:28:14
spattering blood on the bannisters
in the process !
:28:18
Then, when you realized what you'd done,
:28:21
you simply panicked, like a
thousand murderers before you,
:28:25
and buried the corpse in the garden.
:28:29
It was very silly of you...
:28:31
not to clean the blood properly off
the bannisters and burn his clothes.
:28:34
I swear, Tindle left here alive !
:28:37
At the risk of appearing facetious, sir,
:28:40
you had better tell that to the judge.
:28:42
Look, there's only one way
of dealing with this.
:28:43
If you think Tindle's out in
the garden, for Christ's sake,
:28:46
why don't you go and dig him up !
- We don't need to find him, sir.
:28:49
If Mr. Tindle is not beneath
that newly-turned earth,
:28:52
it will merely go to indicate
that in your panic,
:28:55
you first thought of putting him
there, changed your mind, and
buried him somewhere else.
:28:58
- Where ?
- Oh, that's not important, sir.