26-03-19 Chapter 15 I Three people sat eating breakfast in the kitchen. Outside, the sun shone. It was a lovely day. The storm was a thing of the past. And with the change in the weather, a change had come in the mood of the prisoners on the island. They fel...

26-03-19 VI Vera, left to await results, got up and dressed. She glanced over once or twice at the door. It was a good solid door. It was both bolted and locked and had an oak chair wedged under the handle. It could not be broken open by force. Certainly not...

26-03-19 V Ex-Inspector Blore sat on the side of his bed. His small eyes, red-rimmed and bloodshot, were alert in the solid mass of his face. He was like a wild boar waiting to charge. He felt no inclination to sleep. The menace was coming very near nowSix o...

26-03-19 III Philip Lombard drew a breath of relief as he turned from adjusting a chair under the door handle. He strolled across to the dressing-table. By the light of the flickering candle he studied his face curiously. He said softly to himself: Yes, this...

26-03-19 Chapter 14 I They had carried Mr Justice Wargrave up to his room and laid him on the bed. Then they had come down again and had stood in the hall looking at each other. Blore said heavily: What do we do now? Lombard said briskly: Have something to e...

26-03-19 III Vera screamed. She screamed and screamedscreams of the utmost ter- rorwild desperate cries for help. She did not hear the sounds from below, of a chair being overturned, of a door opening, of mens feet running up the stairs. She was conscious on...

26-03-19 II At twenty past six, Vera felt that to sit there longer was unbearable. She would go to her room and bathe her aching head and temples in cold wa- ter. She got up and went towards the door. Then she remembered and came back and got a candle out of...

26-03-19 Chapter 13 I One of usOne of usOne of us Three words, endlessly repeated, dinning themselves hour after hour into receptive brains. Five people five frightened people. Five people who watched each other, who now hardly troubled to hide their state o...

26-03-19 V Satisfied? asked Lombard. He had stripped to the skin and he and his room had been meticulously searched by the other three men. Vera Claythorne was outside in the cor- ridor. The search proceeded methodically. In turn, Armstrong, the judge, and B...

26-03-19 III The small quiet voice of Mr Justice Wargrave said: One more of us acquittedtoo late! Armstrong was bent over the dead woman. He sniffed the lips, shook his head, peered into the eyelids. Lombard said impatiently: How did she die, doctor? She was...