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"
You
see
where
I
am
arriving
?
The
figure
of
the
murderer
is
taking
shape
.
A
person
who
was
on
the
scene
straightaway
,
but
who
might
not
have
been
if
the
crime
had
been
discovered
the
following
morning
.
A
person
carrying
a
receptacle
into
which
the
dictaphone
might
be
fitted
"
I
interrupted
.
"
By
why
remove
the
dictaphone
?
What
was
the
point
?
"
"
You
are
like
Mr
.
Raymond
.
You
take
it
for
granted
that
what
was
heard
at
nine
-
thirty
was
Mr
.
Ackroyd
’
s
voice
speaking
into
a
dictaphone
.
But
consider
this
useful
invention
for
a
little
minute
.
You
dictate
into
it
,
do
you
not
?
And
at
some
later
time
a
secretary
or
a
typist
turns
it
on
,
and
the
voice
speaks
again
.
"
"
You
mean
-
?
"
I
gasped
.
Poirot
nodded
.
"
Yes
,
I
meant
that
.
At
nine
-
thirty
Mr
.
Ackroyd
was
already
dead
.
It
was
the
dictaphone
speaking
–
not
the
man
.
"
"
And
the
murderer
switched
it
on
.
Then
he
must
have
been
in
the
room
at
that
minute
?
"
"
Possibly
.
But
we
must
not
exclude
the
likelihood
of
some
mechanical
device
having
been
applied
–
something
after
the
nature
of
a
time
lock
,
or
even
of
a
simple
alarm
clock
.
But
in
that
case
we
must
add
two
qualifications
to
our
imaginary
portrait
of
the
murderer
.
It
must
be
someone
who
knew
of
Mr
.
Ackroyd
’
s
purchase
of
the
dictaphone
and
also
someone
with
the
necessary
mechanical
knowledge
.
’
"
I
had
got
thus
far
in
my
own
mind
when
we
came
to
the
footprints
on
the
window
ledge
.
Here
there
were
three
conclusions
open
to
me
.
They
might
really
have
been
made
by
Ralph
Paton
.
He
had
been
at
Fernly
that
night
,
and
might
have
climbed
into
the
study
and
found
his
uncle
dead
there
.
That
was
one
hypothesis
.
There
was
the
possibility
that
the
footmarks
might
have
been
made
by
somebody
else
who
happened
to
have
the
same
kind
of
studs
in
his
shoes
.
But
the
inmates
of
the
house
had
shoes
soled
with
crepe
rubber
,
and
I
declined
to
believe
in
the
coincidence
of
someone
from
outside
having
the
same
kind
of
shoes
as
Ralph
Paton
wore
.
Charles
Kent
,
as
we
know
from
the
barmaid
of
the
Dog
and
Whistle
,
had
on
a
pair
of
boots
"
clean
dropping
off
him
.
"
Those
prints
were
made
by
someone
deliberately
trying
to
throw
suspicion
on
Ralph
Paton
.
To
test
this
last
conclusion
,
it
was
necessary
to
ascertain
certain
facts
.
One
pair
of
Ralph
’
s
shoes
had
been
obtained
from
the
Three
Boars
by
the
police
.
Neither
Ralph
nor
anyone
else
could
have
worn
them
that
evening
,
since
they
were
downstairs
being
cleaned
.
According
to
the
police
theory
,
Ralph
was
wearing
another
pair
of
the
same
kind
,
and
I
found
out
that
it
was
true
that
he
had
two
pairs
.
Now
for
my
theory
to
be
proved
correct
it
was
necessary
for
the
murderer
to
have
worn
Ralph
’
s
shoes
that
evening
–
in
which
case
Ralph
must
have
been
wearing
yet
a
third
pair
of
footwear
of
some
kind
.
I
could
hardly
suppose
that
he
would
bring
three
pairs
of
shoes
all
alike
–
the
third
pair
of
footwear
were
more
likely
to
be
boots
.
I
got
your
sister
to
make
inquiries
on
this
point
–
laying
some
stress
on
the
colour
,
in
order
–
I
admit
it
frankly
–
to
obscure
the
real
reason
for
my
asking
.
"
You
know
the
result
of
her
investigations
.
Ralph
Paton
had
had
a
pair
of
boots
with
him
.
The
first
question
I
asked
him
when
he
came
to
my
house
yesterday
morning
was
what
he
was
wearing
on
his
feet
on
the
fatal
night
.
He
replied
at
once
that
he
had
worn
boots
–
he
was
still
wearing
them
,
in
fact
–
having
nothing
else
to
put
on
.
