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that's

peculiar I

say I

say I

say

we've identified the man one of the

professional dancers at the hotel where

you're staying Miss vain did he leave a

note anywh well if he did we've not

found it nor the body neither I'm afraid

they think it was suicide oh

no no that's impossible I Know It is

Well Mrs won I found the body no no

no he would never have killed himself

when he was so happy

you see Miss

vain we were going to be

married why should a man wear gloves to

cut his own throat yes I wondered about

that and what's a man with a full beard

doing with a razor

anyway

afraid I'm not a very good dancer you

dance very correctly Manel but when a

heart dances with the feet then it will

be is that the kind of thing you have to

say to all these old

ladies one may say truthfully to Mel

what in another case might be mere

quiteness very

kind but missan I really must talk to

you about Alexis and to Sheree

too that can be arranged when we finish

work if that would suit

Mel

always wanted to take the spotlight with

Mr Paul Alexis you think he did the

floor a favor by dancing on it and then

the fairy Prince comes down to marry an

old woman for her mother now Dar well I

think that sort of thing is disgusting I

feel sorry for her oh you feel sorry for

everyone I beg your pardon but I've been

calling you Sheree oh Sheree is my

professional name my friends call me

Doris oh I see what k mo oh thank you

George and you con play two brandies

please certainly

Madam you see what I really need to know

from you too is whether you can think of

any reason why Paul Alexis should commit

suicide truly that I do not understand

one does not cut one's throat por Sam

mus the minute I heard about it that's

not Mr Alexis I thought but he hadn't

the nerve to do a thing like like that

you needn't look at me like that Antoine

you know it as well as I do Alexis was a

regular nambi pambi he' have wanted to

kill himself he' have taken sleeping

pills did he have anything the matter

with his skin I mean did he always wear

gloves no no the Shalo must not have

things the matter with his skin that

would not do at all the ladies would not

like it yes but you know he did say that

his skin was very sensitive that was why

he didn't

shave so thank you that's Room 223 thank

you

madam Cheerio Cheerio so he always had a

be yes but Doris is right I remember

when he first came to ask for a job the

manager say well I'll take you on trial

but you must shave the beard the ladies

will not like it and Paul say he cannot

shave if he shave he come out in what

you call it a rash siss so the manager

say you can stay until we find someone

else but the ladies they love the beard

it is so distinguished so romantic so

Paul stay and the beard stay too so it

isn't likely that he'd have a razor and

that I cannot tell Doris do you know

well don't ask me he wasn't my fancy man

he was engaged to Mrs welon if you can

call it that I suppose she represented

Financial Security yes yes you are right

mam it is well enough when one is young

as Doris is Young to say tell a young

man to marry an older woman but one is

not Young Forever soon the head grows

bald and the joints become stiff and

then the manager says my clients prefer

a younger dancer

yeah I suppose you're right oh it's not

easy for us dancers Miss F everyone

treats us like dirt I'm so

sorry but you still can't think of a

reason why Paul Alexis should kill

himself no reason Melle no reason at all

that's right an endicot razor with a

Nick in the ivory handle well would you

believe it I saw that razor only a few

weeks ago to a foreign chat with a beard

oh did me no no it was one of those

itinerant fellows came around here

looking for the job oh I had no work for

him and uh to tell you the truth I

wouldn't have given it to him if I

had didn't like the look of him eh you'd

be surprised the number of these men who

come around here and half of them are no

more skilled hairdressers than my Tom

Cat well I generally give them a few

razors to set and the way they go about

it you can tell nine times out of 10

they've never set a razor in their life

and uh that's how it was with this one

eh mind you he spoke very well very

refined and

quiet very well-kept hands that's the

first thing I look for dirty or bitten

Nails can't do with that in this

business anyway I said I didn't need him

and he said could I sell him a

secondhand razor so I sold him this one

to get rid of him did he give a name Mr

Merryweather he did I'm sure

George that sneaking Little Sandy head

fellow that came down here the other day

what did he say his name was the one

that bought the razor off me it's quite

an odd me name Brown was it brown well

no such thing you'll forget your own

name next oh it did begin with a be

though br

that was it cuz don't you remember me

saying he didn't live up to his name

when it came to setting razors oh yes so

you did Mr Murray weather bright that

was it he said his name was

bright ah bter you come most carefully

upon your arm I've just been telling

Miss V of our success in tracing what

I'm sure Sally Hardy will call the Fatal

weapon precisely Lord Peter tells me you

had a very good description of the man

who bought the razor yes Miss medium

build Sandy a dark eye smallish uh he

doesn't have a limp or nothing like that

but he does have one shoulder higher

than the other good Heavens right

Richard theii now all we have to do is

discover how the Raz are passed from the

possession of an itinerant Barber into

the hands the gloved hands of Paul

Alexis unless that itinerant Barber came

from the sea and cut Alexis's throat

from

behind why from behind well uh forgive

me bter with that particular

weapon

thank you B uh I'll be with you in the

car in 10 minutes very good

Mano I'm so sorry nonsense it's it's

just that having seen him I no no I'm a

brute and should be kicked from here to

se Hampton and when time allows I shall

go down on my knees and apologize and

probably propose to you at the same time

Peter what an idiot you are AR I though

however I now have to go in search of

Sally Hardy who is thirsting for

information why I told them everything I

know you something the police would

allow we don't owe him any favors I

think he owes us one though don't you

you come in no no I've got work to do

I've got a book to write of course your

next best

seller Sally fancy finding your hair

abandoned by your fellow's

cribes that's good oh they've got to

watch the police run around the Rocks ah

they think the body might have been

lodged under the Grinders When the tide

turned but I had faith in you whims

here I get you one uh a bit early for me

but you're treating me damn badly old

man you wouldn't be hanging around here

just for the suicide of a foreign

jiggalo I know you've got something up

your

sleeve unless it's just the girl oh for

God's sake Whimsy said it isn't the girl

you wouldn't play such a trick and a

hardworking journalist look here if

there's nothing else give me a story

about you and Harriet vain romantic

engagement of Pier's son and crime

novelist pull yourself together s and

keep your Inky paws off my Private

Affairs are you reasonably Sober Sober

when did you know me not sober when

there's a good story sit down I've got

an exclusive for you but you've got to

get into tomorrow morning's first

editions and you've got to write it

exactly as I say oh no not again my last

story was practically dictated by Miss

vain really and I thought your style was

improving now take this down you can

begin with your usual audible tragedy at

flat iron Rock and

then interviewed by our special

correspondent Lord Peter Whimsy

explained with his characteristically

modest

smile Peter

really that he had himself been at pains

to trace the previous history of the

razor how did the razor get into the

hands of the dead man demanded Lord

Peter until and unless that question is

answered I shall hold that Paul Alexis

was fouly and brutally murdered and I

shall spare no effort to bring the

murderer to

Justice really

Peter Sally hard's style is unique

fortunately but as you will see if you

can bear to read on he did persuade his

Editor to offer1 reward for information

about the Razer so if we can discover

how it came to the possession of Paul

Alexis then you'll be satisfied that it

was suicide

but would

you of course

not then I'm never

satisfied

hello he's here well I suppose i' better

come and look at the BL over is he

handsome yes rather shall we go in that

case you better tell him we're engaged

then I would't be obliged to assassinate

him would you that's Splendid will you

marry me certainly not it's 25 to9 all

right come on I hope your rabbit

do

Mrs Wen may I introduce Lord Peter Wy oh

Lord Peter how pleased I am to you well

it's anything I can do to help you at

this unhappy time too kind this is my

son Henry Miss

harri Lord Peter W how you w you sit

down thank

you

Henry has most kindly come to help me

through this this terrible time Dash

could yes will you see Henry knows how

utterly devoted poor was to me and that

he never never would have taken his own

life like that and left left me without

a

word it hurts me so when the police

suggest such a thing n mother don't

upset yourself we all know that Alexis

was all right I mean damn fond of you

and all that yes dear I I'm so sorry at

all in such a

shock that Miss B has been so kind and

now you and I and Miss B and Lord Peter

are all going to work together to clear

Paul's memory and discover who murdered

him

yeah Whimsy would you like a drink oh

yes there call waiter I probably my nip

over to the bar that isn't L Miss

vain oh no I'm quite happy with coffee

thank you do

EX

isn't it beautiful how kind everyone is

when one is in

trouble Henry and I haven't always been

as close as a mother and son ought to be

but when I wrote and told him of of

Paul's murder he he came at

once although I know how busy he must be

I'm sure that's a great comfort to oh

yes especially since I I did wonder

whether he

might well resent

Paul such a comfort to know that he too

feels that Paul's murder was a

tragedy makes a chat look a bit of a

fool when his mother proposes to give

him a 30-year-old lounge lizard as a

stepart all now

anyway suppose the chat did himself in

it looks like

it I saw that piece of yours in the

Morning Star about the razor he going a

bit far oh you think so damn it all

Whimsy you're a sound sort of chat

brainy and all that can't you put my

mother off this murder idea she's taken

a notion that you and that vain girl are

encouraging her i' take it you mean Miss

V of course I see your game all right

you're nuts about this kind of thing and

it's all a darn good advertisement and

it gives you a jolly good excuse to go

barging around with the girl but it's

not quite the game to go playing my

mother up if you see what I

mean just thought I'd give you a hint

You Ain't take offense I'm quite ready

to take anything I'm

offer that's good Johnny another Martel

three star glad we understand each other

no no you misunderstand me but I

understand you perfectly perhaps we

ought to go and join the ladies ladies

eh you be careful my boy getting to a

dangerous age if you ain't careful

you'll find yourself getting hooked one

of these days oh I think I shall manage

to keep my head out of the

news oh yes of course excuse

me

would you like to down oh Peter how how

kind but no thank

you not so soon after in fact never

again but um I beg Miss ban to enjoy

herself

isn't it a delight to see her looking so

happy

yes there you are Fring I'm sure you

didn't approve no I don't know that all

depends what on will your FR B try doing

it with me excuse

us now that that I've got you to myself

yes what do you think of Henry

wel

well please don't apologize look I'm a

rotten dancer can't we sit down darling

even if you danced like an elderly

elephant with arthritis which I assure

you you did I would still say that I've

waited all my life to dance with you and

that

frog

what did that pler say there's something

about how I don't better with you than

with

him infernal cheek yes wasn't

he should we sit done

anyway we are here on business after

all what about Henry

Welden well in the first place what's he

doing here have a sudden spasm of filial

affection she thinks so do you no not

really he's here to look after the money

that's all and warn me off what there he

is this detecting business must stop and

Mrs welon is to be dissuaded from

spending time and money on the pursuit

of a non-existent murderer he said that

in the most offensive

man but if you were to tell Mrs welon

that she'd disinherit him I knew he was

stupid

Ah that's what you

think Henry tell me he didn't want Paul

Alexis as a step Papa and now the bands

have been very effectively forbidden yes

but are you seriously casting Henry

welen for first

murderer I'd like to but um I

can't you see if this is murder and not

suicide it's an uncommonly clever one

and I agree with you I don't think Henry

welon has the brain claims to have

murdered Paul Alexis but you do think

someone did in all seriousness I must

say that I

do the thing we must get right is the

time of death now that morning Alexis

traveled from wiam by a train to darly

Halt arriving at um

10:15 the guard remembers him and he

bought a return ticket a return ticket

would a suicide do that the very

question I put to inspector ran who said

that uh suicides particularly foreign

suicides were that inconsistent there

was no accounting for all right let's

suppose Alexis hadn't quite made up his

mind yeah while he was thinking about it

he traveled to darly halt in order to

walk the far and a half miles to flat

iron Rock arriving at say um

11:45 and what about the tide when I was

there it was coming in not when he

arrived it was still heav then the tide

didn't turn until 1:15 so at 11:45 our

friend could have walked dry shod to the

Rock and sat upon

it sometime later miss Harriet V arrived

sat down around the corner of the cliffs

with her

picnic and toed

off so you came around the clips and

knew you'd found a

corpse no not immediately

I was woken by the seag girl at uh 2:00

yes I looked at my

watch I wanted to know if I could get to

wilcom along the seashore so I came

around the

corner

and I thought he was asleep at first and

that he'd be cut off by the ties when I

went to wake him there was all this

Blood running down just a minute you

said that before blood thick red clots

no no it was liquid when I put my hand

into it was quite

wet but if the blood was still liquid

Alexis could only been dead a few

minutes 10 at the

outside couldn't he have been slowly

bleeding to death for some time yeah not

with a wound like that death would have

been almost

instantaneous

oh Harry if you do realize what this

means I have staked my reputation on

murder I shall have to leave the country

and shoot tigers in feeble haunted

jungles well I'm very sorry to hear that

but I too have my reputation I cannot

lie you're absolutely certain that when

you came around the corner and saw the

rock for the first time there was no one

in sight absolutely no one it was just a

man lying here

dead I approached from

there and the tide was coming in then

and there was just one set of footprint

his Peter and the murderer

ly Peter where are

you can you see me from where you are oh

where are

you oh Peter you don't think that while

I was examining the body the murderer

would it is

possible

nice drop ale that you don't get

anything like that in London More's the

pity oh summer visitor are you no no no

I'm here on business H you get enough of

them I dare say too many I shouldn't

Wonder sum of visitors they'd be Roundy

like flights pitching their tents and

iking up and down their little socks and

their shorts and their packs on their

backs get themselves

drowned yeah I met a fell only a couple

of weeks ago said he was thinking of

camping in this area I'll think of his

name in a minute six set chap Ginger air

mustache whiskers well what was his name

sounds like your camper Tom what

gentleman here asking about your camper

oh ah I had to wear dark glasses said

there was something matter with his eyes

that's the one nice enough fell though

apart from that Martin his name was

Martin Mr aaland Martin Martin

I knew it began with an

him I

say yes this is odd what's

odd it's a ring in the Rock looks quite

new as if it's fixed quite recently sort

of ring you'd uh Tire boat to or Poss

there was a boat a fishing boat I think

I waved and shouted and they took no

notice either they didn't see me

or they thought I was doing my health

and beauty

exercises and not one of them

wasted Peter I wish you

wouldn't admire you say silly things you

don't

mean or even if you do mean them I wish

you wouldn't

you make it very difficult for

me I can't help my

feelings

but I will keep my tongue firly between

my

teeth

Peter I feel we should continue looking

for

Clues not the tides been in and out half

a dozen times

it'll be difficult to distinguish

between Clues and uh Flom and Jetsam no

only Jets some Flotsam is what still

floating on the

waves this wouldn't

float could it be Jetson do you

think I think I wonder how it got here

do people ride horses down here as a

all too dangerous to get down I should

have

thought

I better get bunter to check with the uh

local riding stables and if

not belongs to a nice little car of

about uh 15 hands fairly well bred given

to kicking her shoes off and peex a

little with the off four very impressive

Holmes but I simply don't believe you

can deduce all that from an old

horseshoe not quite new you see it

hasn't been worm thin from the Amma Amma

Amma on the arai road there's a little

rust here from like in the water but

it's uh hardly at all rubbed by sand and

stones and not at all corroded so hasn't

been here long all right I grant you

that but the actual horse the size of

the Sho denotes the size of the N oh yes

well I might have thought of that but

well bred a nice little round well-bred

hoof it's a little worn down on the

inner front edge which shows that the

wearer was disposed to Peck and the way

the nails are placed and clinched shows

that the Smith wanted to make it extra

sure which is why I said that uh a lost

shoe was a common occurrence with this

particular G well well I don't suppose

you could go on and tell me the sex and

color while you're were about

it I do have my limitations

really honey I never thought of you as a

country man my dear girl I've been

riding since I was three on and

off I must say finding this shoe was the

most gorgeous piece of luck and

observation quite right I could kiss you

one I think you're getting a little

intoxicated with the excitement of the

discovery you need not shrink or tremble

when I kiss you it will be an important

event like one's first taste of L Chi

not a casual adjunct to a piece of

detective investigation certainly kisses

like wine should be allowed to mature

preferably over a period of years heist

with my own patard

your shoe

Madam now all we have to do is to fit

the shoe to the horse which may lead us

to the

murderer Peter from a ring in the rock

and a horseshoe on the

beach you don't seriously think Alexis

was murdered by a Madman riding out of

the sea clutching a Cutthroat

razor do

you no

no it's

impossible so Mr Martin was in here last

Monday was he so he was Sir he parked

his Morgan outside I didn't know he had

a Morgan well he said he'd only rented

it I mean I happened to remark on it

being an unusual make a car and he said

the trouble it was given him he wish

they'd given him another one anyhow any

he comes as half Point asked wait to Tom

gish's Farm said he wanted permission to

camp on his land asked if he could pitch

a tent in ink lake is uh that a regular

camping site is it no I don't remember

anybody asking for it

before you're a good out sir oh well

have one yourself oh thank you very

kindly sir but he was a quiet sort of

chap I've no objections some poor devil

lives in a town helping himself to a

mouthful of fresh air and a drink of

water so long as he leaves the place

tidy

Sant Miss harot Ban's camper friend

arrived two days before Alex's death and

left the morning after and here's a

funny thing my Lord Mr Goodridge and the

landlord are both pretty certain had

never seen him in the area before and

yet he asked for Mr Goodridge by name

and he seemed to know this place though

it's not a regular

campsite curiousa I'm curious and very

handy for the

beach TI Marks

here three wheeler the Morgan M Lord mhm

little patch of oil yes the landlord

said he was having a spot of trouble I

told you he was tinkering with the

engine when I asked him the way to

darly this is where he pitched his

tent hello

what have we

here a nice little cob about 15

hands and I should be very much

surprised if that gate doesn't lead onto

a path down to the

beach

oats and on this side of the gate

come on boy up boy

up ah you need a new show boy you seem

to have lost your

somewhere

something here my

Lord quite

s OD that we should try to burn

it

Alis you will have noticed my dear

Holmes the horse has a head stor with an

experienced rider and a bit of

rope I really think we ought to speak to

Mr

Martin

you're sure you can't remember anything

else about him quite honestly I was any

concern to get on to DAR and Report the

death so as soon as he pointed me in the

right

direction are we anywhere near Dary yes

10 minutes down the road first right

half a mile in left thank goodness is

there anything the matter I've just

found a dead body on the

beach good

Lord

I think we have earned a small yet

powerful drink I absolutely

agree but first I must wash and tid the

up I must look a mess oh I'm not allowed

to come in but I will meet you at 6:30

in the bar resplendant I refer merely to

the name of your

hotel

oh miss is there any news uh the hotel

said you you'd taken a picnic lunch and

I wondered if you'd gone to the place

where yes Lord Peter thought he ought to

have a look at it and did he discover

anything anything that might lead him to

the murderer a

mother I think I ought to talk to the

police first oh yes of course I I quite

understand I won't ask

anymore I tell you what there's an

awfully jolly little Pub I know just

outside seahampton that does cream teas

if we arrange to go there sometime

perhaps you'd like to join us what do

you say mother oh yes my dear would you

I should be

delighted what a kind thought Henry

dear Whimsy glad to see you there's a

fellow claiming the reward says he gave

the razor to Alexis good ell where is he

he'll be here in about uh 45 minutes he

telephoned my paper from seahampton and

they put him on to me but he says he

won't talk unless you're there his

name's bright and he should have been

here 5 minutes ago he

bright this is the gentleman you wanted

to meet Lord Peter Whimsy how' you do

how' you do Miss Harriet V how'd you do

how'd you do but I've told him Lord

Peter that if he wants to claim the

Morning Star reward he'll have to let me

in on the story I suppose that's only

fair I haven't done anything wrong I'm

sure if I'd known what that poor

gentleman meant to do with the razor

Let's uh begin at the beginning shall we

uh do sit down you won't mind miss van

been here she discovered the body you

know oh no my Lord not at all do itaps

you would like a drink um

Sally Miss V no thank you Lord Peter uh

no

thanks well oh my Lord I am as you might

say an itinerant

hairdresser thank you I used to have my

own business in Manchester but I lost it

through through Misfortune where abouts

in Manchester massing Bird

Street it's all been pulled down

now

when was your last job well I recently

I've only had temporary posts work's

been hard to come by I did work for a

week at Lon ho what was the name of the

shop rages but I had to leave where was

there one of the customers I had The

Misfortune to cut him slightly and drunk

were you no no

no it's true that glass of spirits does

affect me more than the ordinary person

and nobody's trying to criticize you

we're just trying to get it the truth

the

truth the truth is I was at the end of

my

tether

thank

you I'm

sorry it's just that no one knows how

hard it is trying to get work struggling

against my old enemy and nobody will

give you a hand

up

anyway I bought this razor from old

Merryweather in seahampton he wouldn't

give me a job but I I thought if I had

my own razor I might find it easier to

get work could you describe the razor oh

yes it had an ivory handle I think it

had a slight crack in it but it was a

good razor came from a place in German

Street how's the blade quite all right a

bit worn but perfectly

sharp so I came to wil vum that would be

like last Monday and I tried for work at

Morton's but Mr Morton said the season

was over and he didn't want any extra

help and he didn't employ casual labor

very hurtful he was in his

manner well to tell the truth I was at

the end of my

resources I hadn't got enough left for a

cup of

tea go

on

I walked down to the

Sea about midnight it must have

been and I could hear the waves breaking

against the sea wall and they seem to

say Chuck it why don't you Chuck

it I'll tell you no lie my Lord I did

think of ending it all there and then I

actually took the razor out and opened

it and then I saw this young man further

along and he moved towards

me he he was an evening dress and he had

a black beard I remember that because it

is unusual in a young man unless he's an

artist so he offered me a

cigarette he had a gold cigarette case I

remember

that and it was one of those Russian

cigarettes sometimes you get talking to

a Str when he wouldn't to anyone else so

I told him my troubles and he said I

only wish my difficulties could be

solved as easily as yours so he gave me

some money5 it was and he said now you

give me the

razor I can't do that it's my livelihood

in the mood you're in it's more likely

to be your death

lihood a funny way had of talking quick

and sort of poetic you know so he put

the razor in his pocket and he said

funny we should meet

tonight two minds with but a single

thought and then off he

went he said that he did but if I'd

guess that he really meant well I never

would have given him the razor but he

never actually told you his name he

didn't

miss but he said he was a dancing

partner at one of the

hotels wasn't it a hell of a life for a

man that ought to be a prince in his own

country making love to ugly old women at

tapen haap near

time very bitter he sounded you'll um

have to let the police know oh uh uh

After all you've done nothing wrong as

you said yourself why don't you get it

over with right away go around to the

police station with Mr hardy and uh

perhaps you can discuss the uh reward

well it all sounds okay to me but we'll

have to check up on your story of course

then it was all okay there'll be a good

fat check for you I should keep me going

for some time if you'll just steer clear

of that little weakness of

yours the great thing about weaknesses

is never to let them interfere with

business well I I'm very much obliged to

you that seems to settle things very

nicely thank you thank you my Lord Miss

Fain bye Mr

bride

that was rather

horrid yes it

was still if it got the truth out of him

if it was the truth

ah you think it wasn't it doesn't sound

quite right for Alexis

somehow and also

yes speaking as a

novelist if I were trying to think of an

explanation as to how that razor got

into the hands of Paul Alexis that's

exactly the sort of story I'd come up

with

well

vter you had a reason for melting into

the moldin yes my Lord I thought it

advisable in case your lordship

subsequently Desiring to uh have the

person kept under

surveillance your forth thought is as

ever bound

remarkable you wouldn't happen to have a

tide table on you would you certainly my

Lord oh thank

you well I don't know I find it all

rather evocative and

convincing the waves breaking against

the seaw

wall except that they

weren't your instinct was quite right

haret at the time he

mentioned the tide was at the extreme

bottom of the

e no I agree with you my lord Mr

Bright's story just doesn't hold water

if you'll forgive the pun still you know

what they say truth is Stranger Than

Fiction oh certainly the most difficult

thing for a writer of fiction is to make

the truth sound

convincing maybe that was Mr Brit's

difficulty maybe he just got carried

away by his imagination

well Sally Hardy has insisted on him

collecting the reward from the offices

of the morning star and they've said

they'll need time to check on his story

so we're going to keep in touch with Mr

bright and if he doesn't show up for the

reward then we'll know there's something

to fishy about

him a report on Mr havin Martin can the

sort of man who goes camping really be

called havin Martin they've traced the

car

my12 Tom goodr remembered it short and

sweet a Percy

my12 havin Martin rented the car from a

garage in London last Thursday week paid

the deposit in cash and returned it on

Sunday night he gave his reference a

Cambridge banker and show them a driving

license made out in the name of

Martin my

Lord what does your mystery writer's

mind make of that I think that if I were

trying to invent a way for a murderer to

reach an appointed spot and leave it

again complete with bag and baggage

leaving no traceable

Trail I'd have him behave exactly as Mr

havland Martin has I'd have him open a

bank account in a false name hire a car

giving the Bank's address to the garage

as sole reference pay cash and then

possibly close the bank account again in

the near

future did they check on the bank oh

um Mr havin Martin has been a depositor

for 5

years I would agree with you har but um

5 years seems rather a long time to

premeditate a

crime yes Percy what is it oh I saw old

Pollock sir I told him to be here by

11:00 oh no all right I see him in a

minute Pollock the Old Devil we think

was fishing out there that day my Lord I

don't know if you want to be present oh

uh thank you very decent of you

inspector oh would you mind that's quite

all right inspector I have to go

anyway I meant to tell you I'm changing

my address oh you needn't worry I'm not

going to leave town or anything like

that you're quite right inspector the

resplendant is rather large and rather

expensive so I'm taking lodgings oh very

wisely the address by the way is for

Jubilee

walk tell on

sir that's where the Dead Man live

left what's she up to now I

wonder morning

Mrs oh I'm sorry love you're earlier

than I expected I I just finished

this I like the front to look nice oh

that's all right I'm in no hurry no I

never asked how you in the business what

business a

theatrical no I write books oh you're

not one of them journalists are you oh

no were it to death I've been with them

poking their long noses into my Private

Affairs never a thought for my feelings

for Mr

Alexis dead and gone and me like a

mother too I can imagine how you must

feel Mrs a

Frank as a matter of fact it was me who

found him where

now I

never would you like to see the

room this is it and I'm sure you won't

find better in wilam it's nice and quiet

and you'll be able to do your writing

beautiful I've had it all cleaned up and

his clothes and things put away but if

you was to dislike the books or bits and

pieces about then I could always put

them down in the set no they're no

bother at all I mean it's not as if he

died in this room is it poor

love and anything infectious there is

not for he always enjoyed good health

barring the pain in his joints which

used to play him up from time to time

and the agony he went through was

cruel my sister had the rheumatics so I

know all about it a trapeze artist she

was I've got her photo in my room Miss

vain if you'd like to see it and the

reads are old pal sent to her funeral

was beautiful to see now how long would

you be wanting the room for well I don't

really know it depends when the inquest

is held oh yes they have to find him

first haven't they poor

lamb I can't sleep of nights for

thinking of him washing about in all

that nasty sea would you be waning 2 and

a half guies per week all found or 12

Shillings and find for yourself can a

man take his own boat Ain when he likes

you admit you were there you said so

they Baines I suppose nasty peering

prying lot now then Mr poock think

carefully what time did you get to the

flat iron rock you better ask Tom Baines

poking and prying like one of the bloody

Bolsheviks oh never mind all that if you

nothing to hide just answer the question

we eye off the flat iron Wednesday right

yes I

were about what

time

one two might be about

done did you see anyone on the shore as

he V of a woman keepering a about on the

beach that's what I see going on as if

she was Looney I must tell Miss Fain

she'd appreciate that did you see anyone

on the flat iron there were a chap lying

down how long had he been lying there

couldn't say she climbed up on the Rock

and then starts yelling waving her arms

I didn't take no notice I never takes no

notice of femal now Pollock just answer

me this did you see anyone else on the

shore that morning couldn't see were you

inside of the shore all the time yes I

were and you saw nobody apart from the

woman and the man lying down Ain I

telling me I never looked what were you

doing going off the Grinders that

day was someone else with you in the

boat no they weren't how about your

grandson oh in he were there why

shouldn't he be Mr Pollock can we get

one thing quite

clear did you see anybody walking or

riding along the shore between 1 and

2:00 can't say never

noticed h all right then

poock we give your statement to conable

arm on

outside and we shall want to question

your grandson well you can't then he

been here he's gone to Ireland come on

Pollock pack of fools police here police

there no blasted freedom in this

country well my Lord what do you make of

that if he was in his b off the Grinders

that day and he did see Miss Vain and

the body on the Rock and he was bound to

see any anybody else on the

beach and yet he says he

didn't so it has to be

suicide of course he could be

lying he is certainly lying

inspector but about what and

why oh excuse me sir but there's a

gentleman here from Seaham a dealer in

old coins he saw the picture of Paul

Alexis in the paper and thought you

ought to know something well know what

well the day before he died Alexis Drew

everything out of his bank account and

bought 300 gold

sovereigns well if this is suicide it's

like no suicide I ever heard

of

oh