Hector MacQueens story

Hector MacQueen was going to go on a trip with his employer, Mr Ratchett. Hector was a good looking man about thirty years old. He was Mr Ratchett’s secretary because he had to help Mr Ratchett with all kinds of languages. But Mr Ratchett had gotten threatening letters. He started to get them a few weeks earlier. Some one or some people wanted to murder him. It said ”We will get you” so Hector assumed that it was more then one person. An other thing was that he thought that Mr Ratchett traveled under a false name. He assumed it was to get away from the people who wanted him dead.

Then the day came when they were going to leave Constaniople. Ratchett got his last threatening letter there. When they went aboard the train Hector MacQueen went to his cabin to get some rest because he had to get up early to catch the train. His cabin was quite ugly. Later on, when he woke up and went to get something to eat. There, there was a detective asking all the passengers onboard the train questions. The questions were stuff like, why they were on the train, who they were and where they were going.

The train was quite big. He just noticed it. There were a few empty cabinets. The one next to Hector MacQueen was empty. 

But Hector MacQueen didn’t know that Mr Ratchett would get murdered onboard the train. The night before the attack he read after dinner he read a book. It was his favorite book that he had owned ever since his childhood. Then a little later he went and talked with a young English lady that lived in compartment number ten. He later, about ten o’clock wrote notes for Mr Ratchett. The notes were about tiles and pottery that Mr Ratchett bought in Persia. He wanted it for a letter he was going to send. That was the last that Hector MacQueen saw of Mr Ratchett before he was murdered. After writing the notes he discussed world politics, the government of India and the Wall Street crisis with the Englishman Colonel Arthur. Hector MacQueen usually thinks that Britishers are stiff-necked, but he liked Colonel Arthur. They talked until two o’clock. He then called the conductor to make up his bed. When the conductor had made up his bed, he went to bed. He and Colonel only left the compartment once, too stretch there legs. They did it when the train had stopped. But when they were going to open the door to there sleeping-car the door was locked. It was cold and snowing hard so we went back to my compartment. He saw the conductor pass by twice during our talk, once he was coming from the dining-car and the other time towards the dining-car.

He thought for a while, but after many hours I decided that it could be a conductor, Mrs Hubbard and somebody else. He wanted to be careful about picking as close as possible. This is why he thought it was them: Press here!

He decided that he wanted to find out more and be sure. So he spied a little on the conductors and Mrs Hubbard and he discretely tried to find out about more information about them. But did it so nobody would expect that he suspected them. But after a couple of weeks he gave up on his search because he didn't get anywhere on it. He decided to leave the mystery for the detective and went to sleep the whole trip without coming out from his compartment.          

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Witness report

I think that Mr Ratchett travels under a false name. Probably to get away from something. I am pretty sure that it has something to do with some threatening letters that he started to get a few weeks ago. Here, I brought them.

"Thought you would double-cross us and get away with it? Not on your life. We are going to get you and we will. Some time soon. We are going to get YOU".

The last letter he got was the morning when we left Constaniople. I saw him ten o'clock in his cabin last night before the attack. I was writing notes about pottery and tiles that Mr Ratchett bought in Persia. I was writing them for a letter that he wanted to send. I sleep in compartment number 14 alone, the other compartment is empty. I read after dinner. Then in the evening I talked to this young English lady who is in compartment number 10. Then about 10 o'clock was when I wrote the notes for Mr Ratchett. After that I discussed world politics, the government of India and the Wall Street crisis with the Englishman Colonel Arthur. I usually think that Britishers are stiff-necked, but him I liked. We talked until two o'clock. Then I called the conductor to make up my bed and I went to bed. Colonel and I only left the compartment once to stretch our legs when the train stopped. But the door to our sleeping-car was locked, cold and it was snowing hard so we went back to my compartment. During our talk I saw the conductor pass twice. Once he was coming from the dining-car and the other time he was walking toward the dining-car.

Hector MacQueen

I am Hector MacQueen and I'm on this train because I was supposed to be Mr Ratchett's secretary and help him by translating languages that he doesn't know so I don’t know what is with the French. As for as I know, he doesn’t know French. I don't even think that it was him who talked French since he has been murdered. He doesn’t either smoke the pipe and I can’t seem to remember who on this train that does. 

Even though the letter ”H” is in my name Hector and the french that somebody was talking may be miss-leading toward me because I am the one of us that would know it, I didn’t do it. You can ask Mr Colonel Arthur for proof. There are also more people then me that have a name that starts with that letter. The button from the conductor’s uniform may be from the uniform that was found in the toilet. 

I think that it maybe is Mrs Hubbard because of the ”H” and that the murderers knife is found in her beauty bag, because she may be trying to seem like she is innocent. She is also next to Mr Ratchett who is in compartment 6 and she is in compartment 7. Or maybe when she thinks that somebody is in her compartment, that maybe was the murderer when he was going to hide the knife. Or she made that up to get away. She maybe isn't alone with being the murderer, since on the letters that Mr Ratchett got it say's "We are going to get you" and that means that there are more then one behind  the murder. There are maybe three of them, one stab from each one of them. Maybe there is also a conductor involved in the murder because there is a conductors uniform hidden in the toilet and a button in Hubbard's room. Or she's trying to make it look like it was a conductor who did it. Either that, or it was a conductor who wanted to hide the knife in Mrs Hubbard's beauty bag. The conductor also came and went from the dining-car. He maybe was going to get a knife. A conductor could also look all the doors, and my door was locked. The murder may also have something to do with the train stopping. Like a third murderer coming aboard.

I know that it can’t of have been Colonel Arthur because we were with each other at the time Ratchett got murdered.

Hector MacQueen

I didn't manage to upload the Voki, so here I have a picture of it instead.

Hi, I am Hector MacQueen and I travel because I am Mr Ratchett's secretary. I help him with languages.