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But...
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...is that all?
- No. No, no, no, no.
1:33:04
...is that all?
- No. No, no, no, no.
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No, it is not.
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I said, here is the simple answer.
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There is also a more...
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...complex one.
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But remember
my first solution when I...
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When you've heard my second.
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Let us, for the moment, assume
what is perfectly plausible,
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that the mysterious
stranger did not exist.
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The murder must then have been
committed by some person or persons
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in the Calais coach and therefore
are present in this dining car.
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Let us not, for the moment,
ask the question "how"
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but the question "why",
which will tell us how.
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I was not surprised
that every single one of you
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should have heard of
the notorious Armstrong case.
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But I confess to a mild surprise when
the first passenger I interrogated,
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Mr. McQueen...
1:34:07
...admitted, under emotional stress,
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that he had actually known
Mrs. Armstrong, albeit very slightly.
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She was gentle and frightened.
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But not too frightened to take
an interest in a young man
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who wanted to go on the stage.
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Was Mr. McQueen lying
when he denied ever having
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known that Ratchett
was Cassetti?
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Or did he become
Ratchett's secretary
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as part of a deliberate plan to avenge
Mrs. Armstrong's death?
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Only by interrogating
the other passengers
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could I hope to see the light.
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But when I began
to question them,
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the light, as Macbeth
would have said, thickened.
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When I told the Princess
Dragomiroff that I knew she was
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Mrs. Armstrong's godmother,
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her answers to my subsequent
questions smelled strongly
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of inaccuracy and evasion.
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Even I knew more from reading
the newspaper reports