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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The Hunter's Lodge Case - -Author: Agatha Christie - -Release Date: January 13, 2022 [eBook #67160] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Roger Frank and Sue Clark - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HUNTER'S LODGE CASE *** - - - The Hunter’s Lodge Case - by Agatha Christie - - -[Illustration] - - The famous “little gray cells” of the great detective - Poirot function admirably in solving what at first seems a - particularly puzzling murder mystery. - - -“After all,” murmured Poirot, “it is possible that I shall not die -this time.” - -Coming from a convalescent influenza patient, I hailed the remark as -showing a beneficial optimism. I myself had been the first sufferer -from the disease. Poirot in his turn had gone down. He was now sitting -up in bed, propped up with pillows. - -“Yes, yes,” my little friend continued. “Once more shall I be myself -again, the great Hercule Poirot, the terror of evildoers! Figure to -yourself, _mon ami_, that I have a little paragraph to myself in -_Society Gossip_. But yes! Here it is! - -“‘Go it, criminals—all out! Hercule Poirot,—and believe me, girls, -he’s some Hercules!—our own pet society detective can’t get a grip on -you. ’Cause why? ’Cause he’s got _la grippe_ himself!’” - -I laughed. - -“Good for you, Poirot. You are becoming quite a public character. And -fortunately you haven’t missed anything of particular interest during -this time.” - -“That is true. The few cases I have had to decline did not fill me -with any regret.” - -Our landlady stuck her head in at the door. - -“There’s a gentleman downstairs. Says he must see M. Poirot or you, -Captain. Seeing as he was in a great to-do,—and with all that quite -the gentleman,—I brought up ’is card.” - -She handed me the bit of pasteboard. “‘Hon. Roger Havering,’” I read. - -Poirot motioned with his head toward the bookcase, and I obediently -pulled forth the “Who’s Who.” Poirot took it from me and scanned the -pages rapidly. - -“Second son of fifth Baron Windsor. Married 1913 Zoe, fourth daughter -of William Crabb.” - -“H’m,” I said. “I rather fancy that’s the girl who used to act at the -Frivolity—only she called herself Zoe Carrisbrook. I remember she -married some young man about town just before the war.” - -“Would it interest you, Hastings, to go down and hear what our -visitor’s particular trouble is? Make him all my excuses.” - -Roger Havering was a man of about forty, well set up and of smart -appearance. - -His face, however, was haggard, and he was evidently laboring under -great agitation. - -“Captain Hastings? You are M. Poirot’s partner, I understand. It is -imperative that he should come with me to Derbyshire today.” - -“I’m afraid that’s impossible,” I replied. “Poirot is ill in -bed—influenza.” - -His face fell. - -“Dear me, that is a great blow to me.” - -“The matter on which you want to consult him is serious?” - -“My God, yes! My uncle, the best friend I have in the world, was -foully murdered last night.” - -“Here in London?” - -“No, in Derbyshire. I was in town and received a telegram from my wife -this morning. Immediately upon its receipt I determined to come round -and beg M. Poirot to undertake the case.” - -“If you will excuse me a minute,” I said, struck by a sudden idea. - -I rushed upstairs, and in few brief words acquainted Poirot with the -situation. He took any further words out of my mouth. - -“I see—I see. You want to go yourself, is it not so? Well, why not? -You should know my methods by now. All I ask is that you should report -to me fully every day, and follow implicitly any instructions I may -wire you.” - - * * * * * - -To this I willingly agreed, and an hour later I was sitting opposite -Mr. Havering in a first-class carriage on the Midland Railway, -speeding rapidly away from London. - -“To begin with, Captain Hastings, you must understand that Hunter’s -Lodge, where we are going, and where the tragedy took place, is only a -small shooting-box in the heart of the Derbyshire moors. Our real home -is near Newmarket, and we usually rent a flat in town for the season. -Hunter’s Lodge is looked after by a housekeeper who is quite capable -of doing all we need when we run down for an occasional week-end. Of -course, during the shooting season, we take down some of our own -servants from Newmarket. - -“My uncle, Mr. Harrington Pace (as you may know, my mother was a Miss -Pace of New York), has for the last three years made his home with us. -He never got on well with my father, or my elder brother, and I -suspect that my being somewhat of a prodigal son myself rather -increased than diminished his affection toward me. Of course, I am a -poor man, and my uncle was a rich one—in other words, he paid the -piper! But though exacting in many ways, he was not really hard to get -on with, and we all three lived very harmoniously together. - -“Two days ago my uncle, rather wearied with some recent gayeties of -ours in town, suggested that we should run down to Derbyshire for a -day or two. My wife telegraphed to Mrs. Middleton, the housekeeper, -and we went down that same afternoon. Yesterday evening I was forced -to return to town, but my wife and my uncle remained on. This morning -I received this telegram.” - -He handed it over to me, and I read: - - Come at once. Uncle Harrington murdered last night. Bring good - detective if you can, but do come. - Zoe. - -“Then as yet you know no details?” - -“No, I suppose it will be in the evening papers. Without doubt the -police are in charge.” - - * * * * * - -It was about three o’clock when we arrived at the little station of -Elmer’s Dale. From there a five-mile drive brought us to a small gray -stone building in the midst of the rugged moors. - -“A lonely place,” I observed. - -Havering nodded. - -“I shall try and get rid of it. I could never live here again.” - -We unlatched the gate and were walking up the narrow path to the oak -door when a familiar figure emerged and came to meet us. - -“Japp!” I ejaculated. - -The Scotland Yard Inspector grinned at me in a friendly fashion before -addressing my companion. - -“Mr. Havering, I think? I’ve been sent down from London to take charge -of this case, and I’d like a word with you, if I may, sir.” - -“My wife——” - -“I’ve seen your good lady, sir—and the housekeeper. I wont keep you a -moment, but I’m anxious to get back to the village now that I’ve seen -all there is to see here.” - -“I know nothing as yet as to what—” - -“Ex-actly,” said Japp soothingly. “But there are just one or two -little points I’d like your opinion about all the same. Captain -Hastings, here, he knows me, and he’ll go on up to the house and tell -them you’re coming.” - -I went on to the house. I rang the bell, as Japp had closed the door -behind him. After some moments it was opened to me by a middle-aged -woman in black. - -“Mr. Havering will be here in a moment,” I explained. “He has been -detained by the Inspector. I have come down with him from London to -look into the case. Perhaps you can tell me briefly what occurred last -night?” - -“Come inside, sir.” She closed the door behind me, and we stood in the -dimly lighted hall. “It was after dinner last night, sir, that the man -came. He asked to see Mr. Pace, sir, and seeing that he spoke the same -way, I thought it was an American gentleman friend of Mr. Pace’s, and -I showed him into the gun-room, and then went to tell Mr. Pace. He -wouldn’t give no name, which of course was a bit odd, now I come to -think of it. - -“I told Mr. Pace, and he seemed puzzled, like, but he said to the -mistress: ‘Excuse me, Zoe, while I just see what this fellow wants.’ -He went off to the gun-room, and I went back to the kitchen, but after -a while I heard loud voices, as if they were quarreling, and I came -out into the hall. At the same time, the mistress she comes out too, -and just then there was a shot and then a dreadful silence. We both -ran to the gun-room door, but it was locked, and we had to go round to -the window. It was open, and there inside was Mr. Pace, all shot and -bleeding.” - -“What became of the man?” - -“He must have got away through the window, sir, before we got to it.” - -“And then?” - -“Mrs. Havering sent me to fetch the police. Five miles to walk, it -was. They came back with me; and the constable, he stayed all night; -and this morning the police gentleman from London arrived.” - -“What was this man like who called to see Mr. Pace?” - -The housekeeper reflected. - -“He had a black beard, sir, and was about middle-aged, and had on a -light overcoat. Beyond the fact that he spoke like an American, I -didn’t notice much about him.” - -“I see. Now, I wonder if I can see Mrs. Havering?” - -“She’s upstairs, sir. Shall I tell her?” - -“If you please. Tell her that Mr. Havering is outside with Inspector -Japp, and that the gentleman he has brought back with him from London -is anxious to speak to her as soon as possible.” - -“Very good, sir.” - - * * * * * - -I was in a fever of impatience to get at all the facts. Japp had two -or three hours start of me, and his anxiety to be gone made me keen to -be close at his heels. - -Mrs. Havering did not keep me waiting long. In a few minutes I heard a -light step descending the stairs, and looked up to see a very handsome -young woman coming toward me. She wore a flame-colored jumper, that -set off the slender boyishness of her figure. On her dark head was a -little hat of flame-colored leather. Even the present tragedy could -not dim the vitality of her personality. - -I introduced myself, and she nodded in quick comprehension. - -“Of course I have often heard of you and your colleague, M. Poirot. -You have done some wonderful things together, haven’t you? It was very -clever of my husband to get you so promptly. Now, will you ask me -questions? That is the easiest way, isn’t it, of getting to know all -you want to about this dreadful affair?” - -“Thank you, Mrs. Havering. Now, what time was it that this man -arrived?” - -“It must have been just before nine o’clock. We had finished dinner, -and were sitting over our coffee and cigarettes.” - -“Your husband had already left for London?” - -“Yes, he went up by the six-fifteen.” - -“Did he go by car to the station, or did he walk?” - -“Our own car isn’t down here. One came out from the garage in Elmer’s -Dale to fetch him in time for the train.” - -“Was Mr. Pace quite his usual self?” - -“Absolutely—most normal in every way.” - -“Now, can you describe this visitor at all?” - -“I’m afraid not. I didn’t see him. Mrs. Middleton showed him straight -into the gun-room and then came to tell my uncle.” - -“What did your uncle say?” - -“He seemed rather annoyed, but went off at once. It was about five -minutes later that I heard the sound of raised voices. I ran out into -the hall, and almost collided with Mrs. Middleton. Then we heard the -shot. The gun-room door was locked on the inside, and we had to go -round the house to the window. Of course that took some time, and the -murderer had been able to get well away. My poor uncle”—her voice -faltered—“had been shot through the head. I saw at once that he was -dead, and I sent Mrs. Middleton for the police straight away. I was -careful to touch nothing in the room but to leave it exactly as I -found it.” - - * * * * * - -I nodded approval. - -“Now, as to the weapon?” - -“Well, I can make a guess at it, Captain Hastings. A pair of revolvers -of my husband’s were mounted upon the wall. One of them is missing. I -pointed this out to the police, and they took the other one away with -them. When they have extracted the bullet, I suppose they will know -for certain.” - -“May I go to the gun-room?” - -“Certainly. The police have finished with it. But the body has been -removed.” - -She accompanied me to the scene of the crime. At that moment Havering -entered the hall, and with a quick apology, his wife ran to him. I was -left to undertake my investigations alone. - -I may as well confess at once that they were rather disappointing. In -detective-novels, clues abound, but here I could find nothing that -struck me as out of the ordinary except a large bloodstain on the -carpet where I judged the dead man had fallen. I examined everything -with painstaking care and took a couple of pictures of the room with -my little camera, which I had brought with me. I also examined the -ground outside the window, but it appeared to have been so heavily -trampled that I judged it was useless to waste time over it. Now I had -seen all that Hunter’s Lodge had to show me. I must go back to Elmer’s -Dale and get into touch with Japp. Accordingly I took leave of the -Haverings, and was driven off in the car that had brought us up from -the station. - - * * * * * - -Japp I found at the Matlock Arms, and he took me forthwith to see the -body. Harrington Pace was a small, spare, cleanshaven man, typically -American in appearance. He had been shot through the back of the head, -and the revolver had been discharged at close quarters. - -“Turned away for a moment,” remarked Japp, “and the other fellow -snatched up a revolver and shot him. The one Mrs. Havering handed over -to us was fully loaded, and I suppose the other one was also. Curious -what darn fool things people do. Fancy keeping two loaded revolvers -hanging up on your wall!” - -“What do you think of the case?” I asked as we left the gruesome -chamber behind us. - -“Well, I’d got my eye on Havering to begin with.... Oh, yes,”—noting -my exclamation of astonishment,—“Havering has one or two shady -incidents in his past. When he was a boy at Oxford, there was some -funny business about the signature on one of his father’s checks. All -hushed up, of course. Then he’s pretty heavily in debt now, and -they’re the kind of debts he wouldn’t like to go to his uncle about; -whereas you may be sure the uncle’s will would be in his favor. Yes, -I’d got my eye on him, and that’s why I wanted to speak to him before -he saw his wife; but their statements dovetail all right, and I’ve -been to the station, and there’s no doubt whatever that he left by the -six-fifteen. That gets up to London about ten-thirty. He went straight -to his club, he says, and if that’s confirmed all right—why, he -couldn’t have been shooting his uncle here at nine o’clock in a black -beard!” - -“Ah, yes—I was going to ask you what you thought about that beard?” - -Japp winked. - -“I think it grew pretty fast—grew in the five miles from Elmer’s Dale -to Hunter’s Lodge. Americans that I’ve met are mostly clean shaven. I -questioned the housekeeper first, and then her mistress, and their -stories agree all right; but I’m sorry Mrs. Havering didn’t get a look -at the fellow. She’s a smart woman, and she might have noticed -something that would set us on the track.” - - * * * * * - -I sat down and wrote a minute and lengthy account to Poirot. I was -able to add various further items of information before I posted the -letter. - -The bullet had been extracted and was proved to have been fired from a -revolver identical in size to the one held by the police. Furthermore, -Mr. Havering’s movements on the night in question had been checked and -verified, and it was proved beyond doubt that he had actually arrived -in London by the train in question. And thirdly, a sensational -development had occurred. A city gentleman, living at Ealing, on -crossing Haven Green to get to the District Railway station that -morning, had observed a brown paper parcel stuck between the railings. -Opening it, he found that it contained a revolver. He handed the -parcel over to the local police station, and before night it was -proved to be the one we were in search of, the fellow to that given us -by Mrs. Havering. One bullet had been fired from it. - -All this I added to my report. A wire from Poirot arrived while I was -at breakfast the following morning: - - Of course black-bearded man was not Havering. Only you or - Japp would have such an idea. Wire me description of - housekeeper and what clothes she wore this morning. Same - of Mrs. Havering. Do not waste time taking photographs of - interiors. They are underexposed and not in the least - artistic. - -It seemed to me that Poirot’s style was unnecessarily facetious. I -also fancied he was a shade jealous of my position on the spot, with -full facilities for handling the case. His request for a description -of the clothes worn by the two women appeared to me to be simply -ridiculous, but I complied as well as I, a mere man, was able to. At -eleven a reply wire came from Poirot: - - Advise Japp arrest housekeeper before it is too late. - -Dumfounded, I took the wire to Japp. He swore softly under his breath. - -“He’s the goods, M. Poirot! If he says so, there’s something in it. -And I hardly noticed the woman! I don’t know that I can go so far as -arresting her, but I’ll have her watched. We’ll go up right away and -take another look at her.” - -But it was too late. Mrs. Middleton, that quiet, middle-aged woman, -who had appeared so normal and respectable, had vanished into thin -air. Her box had been left behind. It contained only ordinary wearing -apparel. There was no clue in it to her identity, or as to her -whereabouts. - - * * * * * - -From Mrs. Havering we elicited all the facts we could. - -“I engaged her about three weeks ago, when Mrs. Emery, our former -housekeeper, left. She came to me from Mrs. Selboume’s Agency in Mount -St.—a very well-known place. I get all my servants from there. They -sent several women to see me, but this Mrs. Middleton seemed much the -nicest, and had splendid references. I engaged her on the spot, and -notified the Agency of the fact. I can’t believe that there was -anything wrong with her. She was such a nice, quiet woman.” - -The thing was certainly a mystery. - -While it was clear that the woman herself could not have committed the -crime, since at the moment the shot was fired Mrs. Havering was with -her in the hall, nevertheless she must have some connection with the -murder, or why should she suddenly take to her heels and bolt? - -I wired the latest development to Poirot, and suggested returning to -London and making inquiries at Selbourne’s Agency. Poirot’s reply was -prompt: - - Useless to inquire at Agency. They will never have heard - of her. Find out what vehicle took her up to Hunter’s - Lodge when she first arrived there. - -Though mystified, I was obedient. The means of transport in Elmer’s -Dale were limited. The local garage had two cars, and there were two -station flies. None of these had been requisitioned on the date in -question. I may also mention that inquiries at the Agency in London -bore out Poirot’s prognostication. No such woman as “Mrs. Middleton” -had ever been on their books. They had received the Hon. Mrs. -Havering’s application for a housekeeper, and had sent her various -applicants for the post. When she sent them the engagement fee, she -omitted to mention which woman she had selected. - - [It is suggested that the reader pause in his perusal of the story - at this point, make his own solution of the mystery—and then see - how close he comes to that of the author—The Editors.] - -Somewhat crestfallen, I returned to London. I found Poirot established -in an armchair by the fire. He greeted me with much affection. - -“_Mon ami Hastings!_ But how glad I am to see you! Veritably I have -for you a great affection! And you have enjoyed yourself? You have run -to and fro with the good Japp? You have interrogated and investigated -to your heart’s content?” - -“Poirot,” I cried, “the thing’s a dark mystery! It will never be -solved.” - -“It is true that we are not likely to cover ourselves with glory over -it.” - -“No, indeed. It’s a hard nut to crack.” - -“Oh, as far as that goes, me, I am very good at cracking the nuts! A -veritable squirrel! It is not that which embarrasses me. I know well -enough who killed Mr. Harrington Pace.” - -“You know? How did you find out?” - -“Your illuminating answers to my wires supplied me with the truth..... -See here, Hastings, let us examine the facts methodically and in -order. Mr. Harrington Pace is a man with a considerable fortune which -at his death will doubtless pass to his nephew—point number one. His -nephew is known to be desperately hard up—point number two. His nephew -is also known to be—shall we say a man of loose moral fiber? Point -number three!” - -“But Roger Havering is proved to have journeyed straight up to -London.” - -“_Précisément!_ And therefore, as Mr. Havering left Elmer’s Dale at -six-fifteen, and since Mr. Pace cannot have been killed before he left -(or the doctor would have spotted the time of the crime as being given -wrongly when he examined the body), we conclude, quite rightly, that -Mr. Havering did _not_ shoot his uncle. But there is a Mrs. Havering, -Hastings.” - -“Impossible! The housekeeper was with her when the shot was fired.” - -“Ah, yes, the housekeeper. But she has disappeared.” - -“She will be found.” - -“I think not. There is something peculiarly elusive about that -housekeeper—don’t you think so? It struck me at once.” - -“She played her part, I suppose, and then got out in the nick of -time.” - -“And what was her part?” - -“Well—I presume to admit her confederate, the black-bearded man.” - -“Oh, no, that was not her part. Her part was what you have just -mentioned, to provide an alibi for Mrs. Havering at the moment the -shot was fired. And no one will ever find her, _mon ami_, because she -does not exist! ‘There’s no sech person,’ as your so great Shakespeare -says.” - -“It was Dickens,” I murmured, smiling. “But what do you mean, Poirot?” - -“I mean that Zoe Havering was an actress before her marriage, that you -and Japp only saw the housekeeper in a dark hall, a dim, middle-aged -figure in black with a faint, subdued voice, and finally that neither -you, nor Japp, nor the local police whom the housekeeper fetched, ever -saw Mrs. Middleton and her mistress at one and the same time. It was a -child’s play for that clever and daring woman. On the pretext of -summoning her mistress, she runs upstairs, slips on a bright jumper -and a hat with black curls attached which she jams down over the gray -transformation. A few deft touches, and the make-up is removed; a -slight dusting of rouge, and the brilliant Zoe Havering comes down -with her clear ringing voice.” - -“But the revolver that was found at Ealing? Mrs. Havering could not -have placed it there?” - -“No, that was Roger Havering’s job—but it was a mistake on their part. -It put me on the right track. A man who has committed a murder with a -revolver which he found on the spot would fling it away at once; he -would not carry it up to London with him. No, the motive was clear; -the criminals wished to focus the interest of the police on a spot far -removed from Derbyshire; they were anxious to get the police away as -soon as possible from the vicinity of Hunter’s Lodge. Of course, the -revolver found at Ealing was not the one with which Mr. Pace was shot. -Roger Havering discharged one shot from it, brought it up to London, -went straight to his club to establish his alibi, then went quickly -out to Ealing by the District Railway, a matter of about twenty -minutes only, placed the parcel where it was found and so back to -town. That charming creature his wife, quietly shoots Mr. Pace after -dinner—you remember he was shot from behind? Another significant -point, that! She reloads the revolver and puts it back in its place, -and then starts off with her desperate little comedy.” - -“It’s incredible,” I murmured, fascinated. “And yet—” - -“And yet it is true. _Bien sûr_, my friend, it is true! But to bring -that precious pair to justice, that is another matter. Well, Japp must -do what he can—I have written him fully; but I very much fear, -Hastings, that we shall be obliged to leave them to Fate—or _le bon -Dieu_—whichever you prefer.” - -“The wicked flourish like a green bay tree,” I reminded him. - -“But at a price, Hastings, always at a price, _croyez moi_!” - - * * * * * - -Poirot’s forebodings were confirmed. Japp, though convinced of the -truth of his theory, was unable to get together the necessary evidence -to insure a conviction. Mr. Pace’s huge fortune passed into the hands -of his murderers. Nevertheless, Nemesis did overtake them, and when I -read in the paper that the Hon. Roger and Mrs. Havering were among -those killed in the crashing of the Air Mail to Paris, I knew that -Justice was satisfied. - - -[Transcriber’s Note: This story appeared in the June, 1924 issue of -The Blue Book Magazine.] - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HUNTER'S LODGE CASE *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part -of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project -Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm -concept and trademark. 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I myself had been the first sufferer -from the disease. Poirot in his turn had gone down. He was now sitting -up in bed, propped up with pillows.</p> - -<p>“Yes, yes,” my little friend continued. “Once more shall I be myself -again, the great Hercule Poirot, the terror of evildoers! Figure to -yourself, <i>mon ami</i>, that I have a little paragraph to myself in -<i>Society Gossip</i>. But yes! Here it is!</p> - -<p>“‘Go it, criminals—all out! Hercule Poirot,—and believe me, girls, -he’s some Hercules!—our own pet society detective can’t get a grip on -you. ’Cause why? ’Cause he’s got <i>la grippe</i> himself!’”</p> - -<p>I laughed.</p> - -<p>“Good for you, Poirot. You are becoming quite a public character. And -fortunately you haven’t missed anything of particular interest during -this time.”</p> - -<p>“That is true. The few cases I have had to decline did not fill me -with any regret.”</p> - -<p>Our landlady stuck her head in at the door.</p> - -<p>“There’s a gentleman downstairs. Says he must see M. Poirot or you, -Captain. Seeing as he was in a great to-do,—and with all that quite -the gentleman,—I brought up ’is card.”</p> - -<p>She handed me the bit of pasteboard. “‘Hon. Roger Havering,’” I read.</p> - -<p>Poirot motioned with his head toward the bookcase, and I obediently -pulled forth the “Who’s Who.” Poirot took it from me and scanned the -pages rapidly.</p> - -<p>“Second son of fifth Baron Windsor. Married 1913 Zoe, fourth daughter -of William Crabb.”</p> - -<p>“H’m,” I said. “I rather fancy that’s the girl who used to act at the -Frivolity—only she called herself Zoe Carrisbrook. I remember she -married some young man about town just before the war.”</p> - -<p>“Would it interest you, Hastings, to go down and hear what our -visitor’s particular trouble is? Make him all my excuses.”</p> - -<p>Roger Havering was a man of about forty, well set up and of smart -appearance.</p> - -<p>His face, however, was haggard, and he was evidently laboring under -great agitation.</p> - -<p>“Captain Hastings? You are M. Poirot’s partner, I understand. It is -imperative that he should come with me to Derbyshire today.”</p> - -<p>“I’m afraid that’s impossible,” I replied. “Poirot is ill in -bed—influenza.”</p> - -<p>His face fell.</p> - -<p>“Dear me, that is a great blow to me.”</p> - -<p>“The matter on which you want to consult him is serious?”</p> - -<p>“My God, yes! My uncle, the best friend I have in the world, was -foully murdered last night.”</p> - -<p>“Here in London?”</p> - -<p>“No, in Derbyshire. I was in town and received a telegram from my wife -this morning. Immediately upon its receipt I determined to come round -and beg M. Poirot to undertake the case.”</p> - -<p>“If you will excuse me a minute,” I said, struck by a sudden idea.</p> - -<p>I rushed upstairs, and in few brief words acquainted Poirot with the -situation. He took any further words out of my mouth.</p> - -<p>“I see—I see. You want to go yourself, is it not so? Well, why not? -You should know my methods by now. All I ask is that you should report -to me fully every day, and follow implicitly any instructions I may -wire you.”</p> - -<div style='height:1em;'></div> -<p>To this I willingly agreed, and an hour later I was sitting opposite -Mr. Havering in a first-class carriage on the Midland Railway, -speeding rapidly away from London.</p> - -<p>“To begin with, Captain Hastings, you must understand that Hunter’s -Lodge, where we are going, and where the tragedy took place, is only a -small shooting-box in the heart of the Derbyshire moors. Our real home -is near Newmarket, and we usually rent a flat in town for the season. -Hunter’s Lodge is looked after by a housekeeper who is quite capable -of doing all we need when we run down for an occasional week-end. Of -course, during the shooting season, we take down some of our own -servants from Newmarket.</p> - -<p>“My uncle, Mr. Harrington Pace (as you may know, my mother was a Miss -Pace of New York), has for the last three years made his home with us. -He never got on well with my father, or my elder brother, and I -suspect that my being somewhat of a prodigal son myself rather -increased than diminished his affection toward me. Of course, I am a -poor man, and my uncle was a rich one—in other words, he paid the -piper! But though exacting in many ways, he was not really hard to get -on with, and we all three lived very harmoniously together.</p> - -<p>“Two days ago my uncle, rather wearied with some recent gayeties of -ours in town, suggested that we should run down to Derbyshire for a -day or two. My wife telegraphed to Mrs. Middleton, the housekeeper, -and we went down that same afternoon. Yesterday evening I was forced -to return to town, but my wife and my uncle remained on. This morning -I received this telegram.”</p> - -<p>He handed it over to me, and I read:</p> - -<blockquote> -<p style='text-indent:0;'>Come at once. Uncle Harrington murdered last night. Bring good detective -if you can, but do come.</p> -<p style='text-indent:0; text-align:right; font-variant:small-caps'>Zoe.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>“Then as yet you know no details?”</p> - -<p>“No, I suppose it will be in the evening papers. Without doubt the -police are in charge.”</p> - -<div style='height:1em;'></div> -<p>It was about three o’clock when we arrived at the little station of -Elmer’s Dale. From there a five-mile drive brought us to a small gray -stone building in the midst of the rugged moors.</p> - -<p>“A lonely place,” I observed.</p> - -<p>Havering nodded.</p> - -<p>“I shall try and get rid of it. I could never live here again.”</p> - -<p>We unlatched the gate and were walking up the narrow path to the oak -door when a familiar figure emerged and came to meet us.</p> - -<p>“Japp!” I ejaculated.</p> - -<p>The Scotland Yard Inspector grinned at me in a friendly fashion before -addressing my companion.</p> - -<p>“Mr. Havering, I think? I’ve been sent down from London to take charge -of this case, and I’d like a word with you, if I may, sir.”</p> - -<p>“My wife——”</p> - -<p>“I’ve seen your good lady, sir—and the housekeeper. I wont keep you a -moment, but I’m anxious to get back to the village now that I’ve seen -all there is to see here.”</p> - -<p>“I know nothing as yet as to what—”</p> - -<p>“Ex-actly,” said Japp soothingly. “But there are just one or two -little points I’d like your opinion about all the same. Captain -Hastings, here, he knows me, and he’ll go on up to the house and tell -them you’re coming.”</p> - -<p>I went on to the house. I rang the bell, as Japp had closed the door -behind him. After some moments it was opened to me by a middle-aged -woman in black.</p> - -<p>“Mr. Havering will be here in a moment,” I explained. “He has been -detained by the Inspector. I have come down with him from London to -look into the case. Perhaps you can tell me briefly what occurred last -night?”</p> - -<p>“Come inside, sir.” She closed the door behind me, and we stood in the -dimly lighted hall. “It was after dinner last night, sir, that the man -came. He asked to see Mr. Pace, sir, and seeing that he spoke the same -way, I thought it was an American gentleman friend of Mr. Pace’s, and -I showed him into the gun-room, and then went to tell Mr. Pace. He -wouldn’t give no name, which of course was a bit odd, now I come to -think of it.</p> - -<p>“I told Mr. Pace, and he seemed puzzled, like, but he said to the -mistress: ‘Excuse me, Zoe, while I just see what this fellow wants.’ -He went off to the gun-room, and I went back to the kitchen, but after -a while I heard loud voices, as if they were quarreling, and I came -out into the hall. At the same time, the mistress she comes out too, -and just then there was a shot and then a dreadful silence. We both -ran to the gun-room door, but it was locked, and we had to go round to -the window. It was open, and there inside was Mr. Pace, all shot and -bleeding.”</p> - -<p>“What became of the man?”</p> - -<p>“He must have got away through the window, sir, before we got to it.”</p> - -<p>“And then?”</p> - -<p>“Mrs. Havering sent me to fetch the police. Five miles to walk, it -was. They came back with me; and the constable, he stayed all night; -and this morning the police gentleman from London arrived.”</p> - -<p>“What was this man like who called to see Mr. Pace?”</p> - -<p>The housekeeper reflected.</p> - -<p>“He had a black beard, sir, and was about middle-aged, and had on a -light overcoat. Beyond the fact that he spoke like an American, I -didn’t notice much about him.”</p> - -<p>“I see. Now, I wonder if I can see Mrs. Havering?”</p> - -<p>“She’s upstairs, sir. Shall I tell her?”</p> - -<p>“If you please. Tell her that Mr. Havering is outside with Inspector -Japp, and that the gentleman he has brought back with him from London -is anxious to speak to her as soon as possible.”</p> - -<p>“Very good, sir.”</p> - -<div style='height:1em;'></div> -<p>I was in a fever of impatience to get at all the facts. Japp had two -or three hours start of me, and his anxiety to be gone made me keen to -be close at his heels.</p> - -<p>Mrs. Havering did not keep me waiting long. In a few minutes I heard a -light step descending the stairs, and looked up to see a very handsome -young woman coming toward me. She wore a flame-colored jumper, that -set off the slender boyishness of her figure. On her dark head was a -little hat of flame-colored leather. Even the present tragedy could -not dim the vitality of her personality.</p> - -<p>I introduced myself, and she nodded in quick comprehension.</p> - -<p>“Of course I have often heard of you and your colleague, M. Poirot. -You have done some wonderful things together, haven’t you? It was very -clever of my husband to get you so promptly. Now, will you ask me -questions? That is the easiest way, isn’t it, of getting to know all -you want to about this dreadful affair?”</p> - -<p>“Thank you, Mrs. Havering. Now, what time was it that this man -arrived?”</p> - -<p>“It must have been just before nine o’clock. We had finished dinner, -and were sitting over our coffee and cigarettes.”</p> - -<p>“Your husband had already left for London?”</p> - -<p>“Yes, he went up by the six-fifteen.”</p> - -<p>“Did he go by car to the station, or did he walk?”</p> - -<p>“Our own car isn’t down here. One came out from the garage in Elmer’s -Dale to fetch him in time for the train.”</p> - -<p>“Was Mr. Pace quite his usual self?”</p> - -<p>“Absolutely—most normal in every way.”</p> - -<p>“Now, can you describe this visitor at all?”</p> - -<p>“I’m afraid not. I didn’t see him. Mrs. Middleton showed him straight -into the gun-room and then came to tell my uncle.”</p> - -<p>“What did your uncle say?”</p> - -<p>“He seemed rather annoyed, but went off at once. It was about five -minutes later that I heard the sound of raised voices. I ran out into -the hall, and almost collided with Mrs. Middleton. Then we heard the -shot. The gun-room door was locked on the inside, and we had to go -round the house to the window. Of course that took some time, and the -murderer had been able to get well away. My poor uncle”—her voice -faltered—“had been shot through the head. I saw at once that he was -dead, and I sent Mrs. Middleton for the police straight away. I was -careful to touch nothing in the room but to leave it exactly as I -found it.”</p> - -<div style='height:1em;'></div> -<p>I nodded approval.</p> - -<p>“Now, as to the weapon?”</p> - -<p>“Well, I can make a guess at it, Captain Hastings. A pair of revolvers -of my husband’s were mounted upon the wall. One of them is missing. I -pointed this out to the police, and they took the other one away with -them. When they have extracted the bullet, I suppose they will know -for certain.”</p> - -<p>“May I go to the gun-room?”</p> - -<p>“Certainly. The police have finished with it. But the body has been -removed.”</p> - -<p>She accompanied me to the scene of the crime. At that moment Havering -entered the hall, and with a quick apology, his wife ran to him. I was -left to undertake my investigations alone.</p> - -<p>I may as well confess at once that they were rather disappointing. In -detective-novels, clues abound, but here I could find nothing that -struck me as out of the ordinary except a large bloodstain on the -carpet where I judged the dead man had fallen. I examined everything -with painstaking care and took a couple of pictures of the room with -my little camera, which I had brought with me. I also examined the -ground outside the window, but it appeared to have been so heavily -trampled that I judged it was useless to waste time over it. Now I had -seen all that Hunter’s Lodge had to show me. I must go back to Elmer’s -Dale and get into touch with Japp. Accordingly I took leave of the -Haverings, and was driven off in the car that had brought us up from -the station.</p> - -<div style='height:1em;'></div> -<p>Japp I found at the Matlock Arms, and he took me forthwith to see the -body. Harrington Pace was a small, spare, cleanshaven man, typically -American in appearance. He had been shot through the back of the head, -and the revolver had been discharged at close quarters.</p> - -<p>“Turned away for a moment,” remarked Japp, “and the other fellow -snatched up a revolver and shot him. The one Mrs. Havering handed over -to us was fully loaded, and I suppose the other one was also. Curious -what darn fool things people do. Fancy keeping two loaded revolvers -hanging up on your wall!”</p> - -<p>“What do you think of the case?” I asked as we left the gruesome -chamber behind us.</p> - -<p>“Well, I’d got my eye on Havering to begin with.... Oh, yes,”—noting -my exclamation of astonishment,—“Havering has one or two shady -incidents in his past. When he was a boy at Oxford, there was some -funny business about the signature on one of his father’s checks. All -hushed up, of course. Then he’s pretty heavily in debt now, and -they’re the kind of debts he wouldn’t like to go to his uncle about; -whereas you may be sure the uncle’s will would be in his favor. Yes, -I’d got my eye on him, and that’s why I wanted to speak to him before -he saw his wife; but their statements dovetail all right, and I’ve -been to the station, and there’s no doubt whatever that he left by the -six-fifteen. That gets up to London about ten-thirty. He went straight -to his club, he says, and if that’s confirmed all right—why, he -couldn’t have been shooting his uncle here at nine o’clock in a black -beard!”</p> - -<p>“Ah, yes—I was going to ask you what you thought about that beard?”</p> - -<p>Japp winked.</p> - -<p>“I think it grew pretty fast—grew in the five miles from Elmer’s Dale -to Hunter’s Lodge. Americans that I’ve met are mostly clean shaven. I -questioned the housekeeper first, and then her mistress, and their -stories agree all right; but I’m sorry Mrs. Havering didn’t get a look -at the fellow. She’s a smart woman, and she might have noticed -something that would set us on the track.”</p> - -<div style='height:1em;'></div> -<p>I sat down and wrote a minute and lengthy account to Poirot. I was -able to add various further items of information before I posted the -letter.</p> - -<p>The bullet had been extracted and was proved to have been fired from a -revolver identical in size to the one held by the police. Furthermore, -Mr. Havering’s movements on the night in question had been checked and -verified, and it was proved beyond doubt that he had actually arrived -in London by the train in question. And thirdly, a sensational -development had occurred. A city gentleman, living at Ealing, on -crossing Haven Green to get to the District Railway station that -morning, had observed a brown paper parcel stuck between the railings. -Opening it, he found that it contained a revolver. He handed the -parcel over to the local police station, and before night it was -proved to be the one we were in search of, the fellow to that given us -by Mrs. Havering. One bullet had been fired from it.</p> - -<p>All this I added to my report. A wire from Poirot arrived while I was -at breakfast the following morning:</p> - -<blockquote> -<p>Of course black-bearded man was not Havering. Only you or Japp would -have such an idea. Wire me description of housekeeper and what clothes -she wore this morning. Same of Mrs. Havering. Do not waste time taking -photographs of interiors. They are underexposed and not in the least -artistic.</p> - -</blockquote> -<p>It seemed to me that Poirot’s style was unnecessarily facetious. I -also fancied he was a shade jealous of my position on the spot, with -full facilities for handling the case. His request for a description -of the clothes worn by the two women appeared to me to be simply -ridiculous, but I complied as well as I, a mere man, was able to. At -eleven a reply wire came from Poirot:</p> - -<blockquote> -<p>Advise Japp arrest housekeeper before it is too late.</p> - -</blockquote> -<p>Dumfounded, I took the wire to Japp. He swore softly under his breath.</p> - -<p>“He’s the goods, M. Poirot! If he says so, there’s something in it. -And I hardly noticed the woman! I don’t know that I can go so far as -arresting her, but I’ll have her watched. We’ll go up right away and -take another look at her.”</p> - -<p>But it was too late. Mrs. Middleton, that quiet, middle-aged woman, -who had appeared so normal and respectable, had vanished into thin -air. Her box had been left behind. It contained only ordinary wearing -apparel. There was no clue in it to her identity, or as to her -whereabouts.</p> - -<div style='height:1em;'></div> -<p>From Mrs. Havering we elicited all the facts we could.</p> - -<p>“I engaged her about three weeks ago, when Mrs. Emery, our former -housekeeper, left. She came to me from Mrs. Selboume’s Agency in Mount -St.—a very well-known place. I get all my servants from there. They -sent several women to see me, but this Mrs. Middleton seemed much the -nicest, and had splendid references. I engaged her on the spot, and -notified the Agency of the fact. I can’t believe that there was -anything wrong with her. She was such a nice, quiet woman.”</p> - -<p>The thing was certainly a mystery.</p> - -<p>While it was clear that the woman herself could not have committed the -crime, since at the moment the shot was fired Mrs. Havering was with -her in the hall, nevertheless she must have some connection with the -murder, or why should she suddenly take to her heels and bolt?</p> - -<p>I wired the latest development to Poirot, and suggested returning to -London and making inquiries at Selbourne’s Agency. Poirot’s reply was -prompt:</p> - -<blockquote> -<p>Useless to inquire at Agency. They will never have heard of her. Find -out what vehicle took her up to Hunter’s Lodge when she first arrived -there.</p> - -</blockquote> -<p>Though mystified, I was obedient. The means of transport in Elmer’s -Dale were limited. The local garage had two cars, and there were two -station flies. None of these had been requisitioned on the date in -question. I may also mention that inquiries at the Agency in London -bore out Poirot’s prognostication. No such woman as “Mrs. Middleton” -had ever been on their books. They had received the Hon. Mrs. -Havering’s application for a housekeeper, and had sent her various -applicants for the post. When she sent them the engagement fee, she -omitted to mention which woman she had selected.</p> - -<p style='margin:1em 15%; text-indent:0; font-size:0.9em; border:1px solid black; background-color:linen; padding:0.5em;'> -It is suggested that the reader pause in his perusal of the story at this -point, make his own solution of the mystery—and then see how close he -comes to that of the author—<i>The Editors</i>.</p> -<p>Somewhat crestfallen, I returned to London. I found Poirot established -in an armchair by the fire. He greeted me with much affection.</p> - -<p>“<i>Mon ami Hastings!</i> But how glad I am to see you! Veritably I have -for you a great affection! And you have enjoyed yourself? You have run -to and fro with the good Japp? You have interrogated and investigated -to your heart’s content?”</p> - -<p>“Poirot,” I cried, “the thing’s a dark mystery! It will never be -solved.”</p> - -<p>“It is true that we are not likely to cover ourselves with glory over -it.”</p> - -<p>“No, indeed. It’s a hard nut to crack.”</p> - -<p>“Oh, as far as that goes, me, I am very good at cracking the nuts! A -veritable squirrel! It is not that which embarrasses me. I know well -enough who killed Mr. Harrington Pace.”</p> - -<p>“You know? How did you find out?”</p> - -<p>“Your illuminating answers to my wires supplied me with the truth..... -See here, Hastings, let us examine the facts methodically and in -order. Mr. Harrington Pace is a man with a considerable fortune which -at his death will doubtless pass to his nephew—point number one. His -nephew is known to be desperately hard up—point number two. His nephew -is also known to be—shall we say a man of loose moral fiber? Point -number three!”</p> - -<p>“But Roger Havering is proved to have journeyed straight up to -London.”</p> - -<p>“<i>Précisément!</i> And therefore, as Mr. Havering left Elmer’s Dale at -six-fifteen, and since Mr. Pace cannot have been killed before he left -(or the doctor would have spotted the time of the crime as being given -wrongly when he examined the body), we conclude, quite rightly, that -Mr. Havering did <i>not</i> shoot his uncle. But there is a Mrs. Havering, -Hastings.”</p> - -<p>“Impossible! The housekeeper was with her when the shot was fired.”</p> - -<p>“Ah, yes, the housekeeper. But she has disappeared.”</p> - -<p>“She will be found.”</p> - -<p>“I think not. There is something peculiarly elusive about that -housekeeper—don’t you think so? It struck me at once.”</p> - -<p>“She played her part, I suppose, and then got out in the nick of -time.”</p> - -<p>“And what was her part?”</p> - -<p>“Well—I presume to admit her confederate, the black-bearded man.”</p> - -<p>“Oh, no, that was not her part. Her part was what you have just -mentioned, to provide an alibi for Mrs. Havering at the moment the -shot was fired. And no one will ever find her, <i>mon ami</i>, because she -does not exist! ‘There’s no sech person,’ as your so great Shakespeare -says.”</p> - -<p>“It was Dickens,” I murmured, smiling. “But what do you mean, Poirot?”</p> - -<p>“I mean that Zoe Havering was an actress before her marriage, that you -and Japp only saw the housekeeper in a dark hall, a dim, middle-aged -figure in black with a faint, subdued voice, and finally that neither -you, nor Japp, nor the local police whom the housekeeper fetched, ever -saw Mrs. Middleton and her mistress at one and the same time. It was a -child’s play for that clever and daring woman. On the pretext of -summoning her mistress, she runs upstairs, slips on a bright jumper -and a hat with black curls attached which she jams down over the gray -transformation. A few deft touches, and the make-up is removed; a -slight dusting of rouge, and the brilliant Zoe Havering comes down -with her clear ringing voice.”</p> - -<p>“But the revolver that was found at Ealing? Mrs. Havering could not -have placed it there?”</p> - -<p>“No, that was Roger Havering’s job—but it was a mistake on their part. -It put me on the right track. A man who has committed a murder with a -revolver which he found on the spot would fling it away at once; he -would not carry it up to London with him. No, the motive was clear; -the criminals wished to focus the interest of the police on a spot far -removed from Derbyshire; they were anxious to get the police away as -soon as possible from the vicinity of Hunter’s Lodge. Of course, the -revolver found at Ealing was not the one with which Mr. Pace was shot. -Roger Havering discharged one shot from it, brought it up to London, -went straight to his club to establish his alibi, then went quickly -out to Ealing by the District Railway, a matter of about twenty -minutes only, placed the parcel where it was found and so back to -town. That charming creature his wife, quietly shoots Mr. Pace after -dinner—you remember he was shot from behind? Another significant -point, that! She reloads the revolver and puts it back in its place, -and then starts off with her desperate little comedy.”</p> - -<p>“It’s incredible,” I murmured, fascinated. “And yet—”</p> - -<p>“And yet it is true. <i>Bien sûr</i>, my friend, it is true! But to bring -that precious pair to justice, that is another matter. Well, Japp must -do what he can—I have written him fully; but I very much fear, -Hastings, that we shall be obliged to leave them to Fate—or <i>le bon -Dieu</i>—whichever you prefer.”</p> - -<p>“The wicked flourish like a green bay tree,” I reminded him.</p> - -<p>“But at a price, Hastings, always at a price, <i>croyez moi</i>!”</p> - -<div style='height:1em;'></div> -<p>Poirot’s forebodings were confirmed. Japp, though convinced of the -truth of his theory, was unable to get together the necessary evidence -to insure a conviction. Mr. Pace’s huge fortune passed into the hands -of his murderers. Nevertheless, Nemesis did overtake them, and when I -read in the paper that the Hon. 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