:43:01
That's right.
Let's see, he sent for me
:43:03
to see the text
right after we left Belgrade.
:43:03
...that could have known
or could have been involved
:43:06
And then he went...
Yeah, it was the last I ever saw of him.
:43:07
with the Armstrong household?
:43:10
Were there any other
threatening letters?
:43:11
We have, one, Mr. McQueen,
:43:13
who became boyishly
devoted to Mrs. Armstrong
:43:13
Yeah, but none that
I was allowed to read.
:43:15
He used to... He used to burn them.
:43:16
at the time of the kidnapping.
:43:17
That explains...
:43:18
Two, the Princess Dragomiroff,
:43:19
What?
:43:20
who was Mrs. Armstrong's
devoted godmother.
:43:22
My interest in hatboxes.
:43:22
Three, the Countess Andrenyi,
:43:24
who was Mrs. Armstrong's
devoted younger sister.
:43:26
Four, the Count Andrenyi,
:43:28
who is Helena's devoted husband
:43:28
Precisely what I needed.
:43:29
and Mrs. Armstrong's
devoted brother-in-law.
:43:32
Five, Hildegarde Schmidt, who was
Mrs. Armstrong's devoted cook.
:43:33
Five, Hildegarde Schmidt, who was
Mrs. Armstrong's devoted cook.
:43:33
Doctor, first the wounds.
:43:35
- You counted a dozen?
- Yes.
:43:36
Six, Mary Debenham, who was
Mrs. Armstrong's devoted secretary.
:43:37
Five are deep,
of which three are lethal.
:43:41
Miss Debenham's inclusion
is pure conjecture.
:43:43
I did not have to ask Miss Debenham
:43:45
The rest are shallow.
:43:46
if she had ever lived in America,
:43:47
And two...
:43:48
because during her
interrogation, she said...
:43:49
...are so slight as to be
mere scratches.
:43:51
I can always call my lawyers
long-distance.
:43:53
What does that suggest?
:43:55
An Englishwoman who had never
lived in America would have said,
:43:55
That there were two murderers,
a strong man and a weak man?
:43:59
"I can always make a trunk call
to my solicitors."
:44:01
Or a weak woman.
:44:03
Or a strong man stabbing
the victim both strongly
:44:07
Tout de même, I must thank
the pipe-smoking Colonel Arbuthnott,
:44:08
and weakly in order to confuse us.
:44:11
for a remark which finally resolved
all my confusions about this...
:44:12
At least we know that
by the time of the murder,
:44:16
Ratchett was too drugged to cry out
or defend himself with this.
:44:16
This extraordinary case.
:44:18
I prefer to set aside the fact
:44:21
that he denied ever having spoken
to Colonel Armstrong in India.
:44:23
But how did you guess...?
:44:25
I didn't. He showed it to me
when he offered me $15,000
:44:26
And yet he remembered
in great detail
:44:28
to be his bodyguard and I refused.
:44:29
the decorations which
Colonel Armstrong had won
:44:31
Ought I to have accepted?
:44:32
years earlier in France.
:44:36
I prefer to remember his views
on the British jury system.
:44:40
Now, let us consider the ashtray.
:44:40
Trial by 12 good men and true
is a sound system.
:44:44
Two different matches.
:44:46
The iron tongue of midnight
:44:47
A smoked cigar.
:44:49
- A pipe cleaner...
- And this.
:44:51
hath told 12.
:44:55
Suddenly...
:44:55
- The initial H.
- That should not be hard to identify.
:44:56
...the number 12 began to ring
in my head like a great bell.
:44:58
I wonder, Christian name or surname?