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    26-03-19 VI Dr Armstrong was driving his Morris across Salisbury Plain. He was very tiredSuccess had its penalties. There had been a time when he had sat in his consulting room in Harley Street, correctly apparelled, surrounded with the most up to date appli...

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    26-03-19 V General Macarthur looked out of the carriage window. The train was just coming into Exeter, where he had to change. Damnable, these slow branch line trains! This place, Soldier Island, was really no distance at all as the crow flies. He hadnt got...

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    26-03-19 IV In a non-smoking carriage Miss Emily Brent sat very upright as was her custom. She was sixty- five and she did not approve of lounging. Her father, a Colonel of the old school, had been particular about deportment. The present generation was sham...

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    26-03-19 III Philip Lombard, summing up the girl opposite in a mere flash of his quick moving eyes thought to himself: Quite attractivea bit schoolmistressy perhaps. A cool customer, he should imagineand one who could hold her own in love or war. Hed rather...

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    26-03-19 II Vera Claythorne, in a third-class carriage with five other travellers in it, leaned her head back and shut her eyes. How hot it was travelling by train today! It would be nice to get to the sea! Really a great piece of luck getting this job. When...

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    24-02-23 VII Blore recovered himself first. He said: SorryerRogers. Heard someone moving about in here, and thoughtwell He stopped. Rogers said: Im sorry, gentlemen. I was just moving my things. I take it there will be no objection if I take one of the vacan...

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    24-02-23 VI The house was easily searched. They went through the few out-buildings first and then turned their attention to the building itself. Mrs. Rogers yard measure discovered in the kitchen dresser assisted them. But there were no hidden spaces left un...

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    24-02-23 V When Blore returned from the house with a rope coiled over his arm, he found Armstrong where he had left him staring down into the depths. Blore said breathlessly: Wheres Mr. Lombard? Armstrong said carelessly: Gone to test some theory or other. H...

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    24-02-23 IV Vera had been restless all the morning. She had avoided Emily Brent with a kind of shuddering aversion. Miss Brent herself had taken a chair just round the corner of the house so as to be out of the wind. She sat there knitting. Every time Vera t...

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    24-02-23 III The search of the island was practically completed. The three men stood on the highest point looking over towards the mainland. There were no boats out. The wind was freshening. Lombard said: No fishing boats out. Theres a storm coming. Damned n...