"I have already warned
your friend. But if I have any interruptions from you, I will have you
removed."
He continued to glare at me for some moments, and then, turning again
to Colin Camber:
"I say, I have information that Colonel Menendez looked upon you as a
dangerous neighbour."
"In that event," replied Colin Camber, "why did he lease an adjoining
property?"
"That's an evasion, sir. Answer my first question, if you please."
"You have asked me no question, Inspector."
"Oh, I see. That's your attitude, is it? Very well, then. Were you, or
were you not, an enemy of the late Colonel Menendez?"
"I was."
"What's that?"
"I say I was. I hated him, and I hate him no less in death than I hated
him living."
I think that I had never seen a man so taken aback, Inspector
Aylesbury, drawing out a large handkerchief blew his nose. Replacing
the handkerchief, he produced a note-book.
"I am placing that statement on record, sir," he said.
He made an entry in the book, and then:
"Where did you first meet Colonel Menendez?" he asked.
"I never met him in my life."
"What's that?"
Colin Camber merely shrugged his shoulders.
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