Bloody Weekend
Chapter 42
”But one of the three of them,
Inspector, it could be at the rest house before Natasha Hamilton. He could have shot Peter Hamilton, then climbed up or down one of the trails, then turned around again, until he could have arrived there along with the others.”
”Yes, it's possible,” Inspector Larkspur said.
”And there is one more invisible possibility
at that time, that is someone might have come from a public road through the path. Maybe he shot Peter Hamilton, and then crossed the same road, without anyone seeing.”
”You are absolutely right,” Inspector Larkspur said. ”There may be two or three other accused except Natasha Hamilton. They have the same motive: jealousy. It must be a crime caused by
a deep feeling. There are two people who have had a love affair with Peter Hamilton.”
He kept quiet for a while, then said, ” Hamilton went to see Karen Clark at her house that morning. They quarrel. The woman told her that she would make Hamilton feel sorry for what he had done, and she said that she hated Hamilton more than she hated anyone else
”Interesting,” murmured Eloise Hope.
”She came directly from Hollywood, and from what
what I read in the newspapers, they sometimes shoot each other there. Maybe Karen Clark came back to get her fur coat left in the rest house the night before. Maybe they met again, and their quarrel exploded again and the woman shot him. Then, because he heard someone coming, and then sipped the precipitate back to the road he passed when he came.”
He paused for a while, then added in annoyance, ”And now we arrive at the part where everything has gone awry. Because of that fucking gun! Except,” his eyes so beamed series, ”if he shot him with his gun self, and dropped the gun he had stolen in the workspace William Cavendish to throw accusations at people who were in
Blossom. Maybe he didn't know that we could dig out a used gun from a gunshot scar.”
”I want to know, how many people know it?”
”I repeat the words of William Cavendish. According to him, quite a lot of people know, because of all the detective stories that people write. He called it a new book, entitled The Treasure of Inheritance Directive which he said was read by Peter Hamilton himself in
that Saturday. The storybook actually emphasizes the special problem.”
”But Karen Clark must have taken the gun
it's from Mr. William's den.”
”Ya, and that means there is a plan ahead of time.”
Once again the inspector pulled his mustache, then he looked at Eloise. ”But you yourself have been
there's another possibility, Miss Hope. It's about Miss West. And here
testimony of your eyes or more accurate testimony
your ears play a role.
Dr. Hamilton said, ‘Graciela, ’ times she was dying. You heard it and they all heard it too, though Mr. Cavendish seems to have not caught what he said.”
”Ryan Cavendish didn't hear? It's mynarik.”
”But others heard it. Miss
I think she opened her eyes, saw Miss
West, then said, ‘Graciela.’ I think Julia Cavendish thinks it doesn't matter.”
Poirot smiled. ”No, he considers it
unimportant.”
”Well, Miss Hope, how about you?
You were there. You see, and you hear. Has Dr Hamilton tried to tell you all that Graciela shot him? In short, is that an indictment?”
Poirot said slow slow, ”At that time, no
so do my thoughts.”
”But now, Miss Hope. How are your thoughts now?”
Eloise Hope sighed, then said again slowly, "Maybe it is. I can't say more than that. All you ask of me is an impression, and when the incident has passed, there is a tendency we learn again the question of the question, then there comes a meaning that before it is not visible to us.”
Larkspur immediately said, ”Everything is sure
ti ⁇ dak will be recorded officially. Your thoughts Miss Hope is not evidence. I know it. I'm just trying to get a hint.”
”Oh, I understand very well, and the effects of a person
an eyewitness can be a very useful thing. But I humbly have to say that my impression is of no concern. I had a shadow that was affected by the evidence of sight, that was when Mrs Hamilton had just shot her husband. Until the time of Dr. Hamilton opened his eyes and said, ‘Graciela,’ I don't know
consider it an indictment. Now, looking back, I was tempted to look into the event something that was not there.”
”I know what you mean,” says Larkspur. ”But
in my opinion, since the last word that Hamilton spoke was ‘Graciela ’, it definitely means one of two possibilities. Maybe it's an indictment of murder, or if it wasn't. Well, it's just a statement of his emotions.Graciela is the woman he loves,
and he faces death. Well, considering everything, which of the two is what do you think?”
Eloise. It moves, it moves
maita, open it again, then extend both hands as an upset statement.
He said, ”Her voice sounded urgent. That's all I can say urgently. According to my hearing, it is not an indictment, nor a statement of a feeling, but
menedesak, yes indeed! And I am sure of one thing . He was in a state of complete consciousness. He spoke as a doctor. A doctor who, say, is suddenly facing an emergency surgery or maybe because a patient is being treated.
bleeding until his life is threatened.”
Eloise shrugged her shoulders. ”Only that's what I can do for you.”
”A medical review, yes?” said Inespector Larkspur "Well, that is indeed the third way to review it. He was shot, he thought he was going to die, he wanted something done for him. And if, as Julia Cavendish said, Miss West was the first person she saw when her eyes were open, she would have addressed the request to her. But that explanation doesn't make sense."
