日期：2025-07-01 Thirty-two There is little more to be told. Miss Marples plan succeeded. LawrenceRedding was not an innocent man, and the hint of a witness of the changeof capsule did indeed cause him to do something foolish. Such is thepower of an evil conscience.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Thirty-one Colonel Melchett and I both stared at her. A trap? What kind of a trap? Miss Marple was a little diffident, but it was clear that she had a planfully outlined. Supposing Mr. Redding were to be rung up on the telephone andwarned. Colonel M... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Thirty We stared at her. I really think that for a moment or two we really be-lieved she was out of her mind. The accusation seemed so utterly prepos-terous. Colonel Melchett was the first to speak. He spoke kindly and with a kindof pitying toleranc... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Twenty-nine I dont know how long I sat thereonly a few minutes in reality, I sup-pose. Yet it seemed as though an eternity had passed when I heard thedoor open and, turning my head, looked up to see Melchett entering theroom. He stared at Hawes asle... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Twenty-eight I hurried down the village street. It was eleven oclock, and at elevenoclock on a Sunday night the whole village of St. Mary Mead might bedead. I saw, however, a light in a first floor window as I passed, and, real-izing that Hawes was... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Twenty-seven Griselda and Dennis had not yet returned. I realized that the most naturalthing would have been for me to go up to the house with Miss Marple andfetch them home. Both she and I had been so entirely taken up with ourpreoccupation over th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Twenty-six I was in a strange mood when I mounted the pulpit that night. The church was unusually full. I cannot believe that it was the prospectof Hawes preaching which had attracted so many. Hawess sermons aredull and dogmatic. And if the news had... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Twenty-five I found it hard to shake off the impression left by the anonymous letter. Pitch soils. However, I gathered up the other three letters, glanced at my watch, andstarted out. I wondered very much what this might be that had come to the know... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Twenty-four I returned to the Vicarage to find Hawes waiting for me in my study. Hewas pacing up and down nervously, and when I entered the room he star-ted as though he had been shot. You must excuse me, he said, wiping his forehead. My nerves are... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Twenty-three On the way back, I proposed to Griselda that we should make a detour andgo round by the barrow. I was anxious to see if the police were at workand if so, what they had found. Griselda, however, had things to do athome, so I was left to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Twenty-two Inspector Slacks orders, once I had got him on the telephone, were briefand emphatic. Nothing was to get about. In particular, Miss Cram wasnot to be alarmed. In the meantime, a search was to be instituted for thesuitcase in the neighbour... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Twenty-one I cannot say that I have at any time had a great admiration for Mr. Ray-mond West. He is, I know, supposed to be a brilliant novelist and hasmade quite a name as a poet. His poems have no capital letters in them,which is, I believe, the e... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Twenty When I got back to the Vicarage I found that we were in the middle of adomestic crisis. Griselda met me in the hall and with tears in her eyes dragged me intothe drawing room. Shes going. Whos going? Mary. Shes given notice. I really could no... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Nineteen Very glad to have met you, said Lawrence. Come to my place. We turned in at the little rustic gate, went up the path, and he drew akey from his pocket and inserted it in the lock. You keep the door locked now, I observed. Yes. He laughed ra... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Eighteen The inquest was held that afternoon (Saturday) at two oclock at the BlueBoar. The local excitement was, I need hardly say, tremendous. There hadbeen no murder in St. Mary Mead for at least fifteen years. And to havesomeone like Colonel Prot... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Seventeen Inspector Slack came round to see me the following morning. He is, Ithink, thawing towards me. In time, he may forget the incident of theclock. Well, sir, he greeted me. Ive traced that telephone call that you re-ceived. Indeed? I said eag... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Sixteen As I went out I ran into Haydock on the doorstep. He glanced sharply afterSlack, who was just passing through the gate, and demanded: Has hebeen questioning her? Yes. Hes been civil, I hope? Civility, to my mind, is an art which Inspector Sl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Fifteen Hawess appearance distressed me very much. His hands were shakingand his face kept twitching nervously. In my opinion he should have beenin bed, and I told him so. He insisted that he was perfectly well. I assure you, sir, I never felt bette... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Fourteen On my way home, I ran into Miss Hartnell and she detained me at least tenminutes, declaiming in her deep bass voice against the improvidence andungratefulness of the lower classes. The crux of the matter seemed to bethat The Poor did not wa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Thirteen I hardly thought it likely that Mrs. Price Ridley had anything so dramaticin view, but I did wonder what had taken her to the police station. Hadshe really got evidence of importance, or that she thought of importance,to offer? At any rate,... 阅读全文>>