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But I confess to a mild surprise when
the first passenger I interrogated,
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Mr. McQueen...
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...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
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than she from her frequent visits.
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Was there not a chauffeur?
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There was, monsieur, but I had
my own. I never used him.
1:35:13
Evasion. What was the name of
Mrs. Armstrong's personal maid?
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I always travel with
my own maid, monsieur.
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There was no need to speak
with Mrs. Armstrong's.
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Evasion. I asked for particulars
of the manservant.
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He was, I think, the colonel's Indian,
how you would say, orderly.
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Inaccuracy.
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Colonel Armstrong was an officer
of the British army in India.
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He would have had a British
batman, like Private Beddoes,
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to serve his personal needs.
1:35:46
Only officers of the Indian army,
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like Colonel Arbuthnott,
have Indian orderlies.
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I asked her the name of
Mrs. Armstrong's younger sister.
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I do not recall her name.
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Unbelievable evasion.
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I asked her the name
of Mrs. Armstrong's secretary.