1:18:02
- Yes.
- Why overland?
1:18:05
Why not?
1:18:06
Because the sea route
by P and O is more usual.
1:18:10
I chose to come overland
for reasons of my own.
1:18:13
Colonel Arbuthnott,
in a murder inquiry,
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no suspect's reasons
are exclusively his own.
1:18:19
I stopped for one night
to see Ur of the Chaldees,
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and for three days in Baghdad
with the A.O.C.,
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who happens to be
a friend of mine.
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The English Miss Debenham
also has traveled from Baghdad.
1:18:33
It is possible the murder
was committed by a woman
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or by a man and a woman
in collaboration.
1:18:40
From your acquaintanceship
with Miss Debenham,
1:18:43
would you have thought
that she was
1:18:46
capable physically or emotionally or...?
1:18:48
- That's a bloody irregular question.
- I know, but I ask it.
1:18:52
Miss Debenham is not a woman.
1:18:57
- She's a lady.
- Which precludes her
1:18:59
from being a murderess?
1:19:00
Damn it,
the man was a perfect stranger.
1:19:02
- She'd never seen him before.
- You feel warmly in the matter.
1:19:11
I don't know what you're driving at.
1:19:12
Then let us be practical
and drive at facts.
1:19:15
Did you know Colonel Armstrong?
1:19:18
Not to speak to.
1:19:20
You see, his outfit and mine
wouldn't have mixed much.
1:19:23
I'm Indian army.
He was British army, serving in India.
1:19:26
Royal Scots.
1:19:28
- How did you know?
- It was in the papers
1:19:30
when he shot himself
after the kidnapping.
1:19:35
Rotten show.
1:19:37
Thought he'd been tougher than that.
1:19:39
After all, he got a D.S.O.
And an M.C. In France.
1:19:46
Distinguished Service Order.
1:19:51
Military Cross.
1:19:53
Mon colonel,
1:19:55
Ratchett was responsible
for five deaths:
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The suicide
of the falsely accused maid.