When the guests arrive they find the nursery rhyme Ten Indian boys and ten Indian figures. A gramophone plays that reveals their secrets of murder. They are all accidents, exempt of Lombard. They decide there is no Mr. Owen.

As a storm grows, people would die. As they died, the Indian figures disappeared.

It turns out Wargrave was Mr. Owen. The guests died in the ways the Indian boys died.

1. (Page 10) “That’s the lot,” he muttered to himself…

A. Mutter[ed] - To utter or speak indistinctly or in a low voice.

B. I think that the author used the word mutter because the person speaking is thinking out loud and in the passage he is sitting across form another person, and probably doesn’t want to be heard. Although, he may just speak softly while thinking out loud, because some people do that.

1. (Page 10) “Had one over the eight” diagnosed Mr. Blore…

A. Diagnose[d] - Identification, as of a disease, by analysis or examination.

2. (Page 10) “Job ought to be easy enough” he ruminated…

C. The tone adds to the story by giving examples of what certain members of the party were like.

Aeons passed…worlds span and whirled…Time was motionless…It stood still-it passed through a thousand ages….

8. (Page 73) Miss Brent continued serenely, “Beatrice Taylor was in service…

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