The List of Adrian Messenger Page #6

l speak only for your own welfare.

Well, thanks very much.

Le Borg.

Jocelyn.

Have you found something?

Come and have a look.

This is page 101.

Page 136.

Picked at random.

This is page 17 4.

Do you notice anything

different about them?

17 4 seems a line or two

shorter than the other two.

Look at

the capital letters on this page.

They're set higher than

these capitals on the others.

The type-face is the same so it was

obviously done on this typewriter.

But not by the same typist.

Just because

the caps are raised slightly?

That's not all.

On every other page, the semicolon is

followed professionally by one space,...

But on this page,

all three have no spaces after them.

Are you saying that somebody

broke in, removed a page...

and retyped it with alterations?

Exactly.

Adrian had reached

the point of his arrival in Burma.

This page contains names that

were obviously important to him.

Equally important one of

those names has been deleted.

Now the question is,

who did Adrian's typing?

-You might just remember.

-l know. An unforgettable name.

Gwendolynne La Doll.

With a ''YNNE''.

Mr. Pythian!

The man you're looking for.

Ive seen him.

He was in Adrian's

flat when l arrived.

You were alone with this murderer?

He couldn't be.

He was such a mousy little man.

He said his name's Pythian.

He said he lived in the flat below

and he came to feed Adrian's cat.

-Where are you going?

-To find your Mr. Pythian.

You won't find him in this building.

l think he got what he came for.

-Where are we going?

-Miss La Doll lives in Fulham Road.

Jocelyn, suppose you describe

Mr. Pythian?

lf l can.

Below medium height.

l seemed to tower over him.

Narrow little shoulders,

narrow little head.

Sharp pointed chin.

That's the man who took our taxi.

-He was not the murderer.

-You seem very positive.

l have seen the murderer. The

clergyman who did not take the plane.

He was taller than Madame,

with a square jaw, a broad face.

There're more than one person

involved. Its a conspiracy.

No, no.

Adrian was a writer.

He chose his words very carefully.

When he said,...

''nary a conspiracy'' he meant

just that. Only one man involved.

One man who becomes many men.

Miss La Doll?

Gas.

She's gone.

Poor thing.

One hour lost.

A woman whose only offense was

she made her living with a typewriter.

Ive pressed

the French gentleman's clothes, sir.

-Shall l awake him?

-No, let him sleep.

More than Ive done.

That sofa has a wild spring.

l wish you'd see it's attended to.

Yes, sir.

Come in, Pike.

-Any luck?

-Yes, sir.

l ran down the military records of

the names on Mr. Messenger's list,...

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