April 22: Chapters 5 & 6

In chapter 5 every character witnessed the death of Anthony Marston who was poisoned by cyanide through the whiskey he was drinking causing him to choke. They describe who may have done it when know one knew him that well to say that they could have done anything like that.The most logical reason that most made an assumption to was that Marston committed suicide, but Henry Willam Blore and Dr. Armstrong begged to differ because Marston was not a man who did something so non sensible. Most of the characters were shocked by this fact which made each individual recollect if what they did was actually a sense of murder. It make Justice Wargrave recollect the case of Edward Seton who he sentenced to death even though evidence happened to be on his side. General Macarthur recollected on jealousy of Arthur Richmond who had an affair with his wife Leslie which ended up with Macarthur sending Richmond into a suicide mission and the years after when Leslie died. In Vera Claythorne's side story was one of love and such with the murder or accidental death of her lover, Hugo's son, Cyril, who drowned. All Vera wants is to know that no more people are going to die. What is strange about this chapter is that Rogers notices that instead of ten Indians on the display table there are only nine following the nursery rhyme which is ironic because the first line reads "Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine" which is what happened to Marston as he chokes from the poison in his drink. Though I still suspect Rogers because the character is not described enough and he appears little noticing only the small things that could have been moved easily he is the butler after all.

In chapter 6 we come to the story of Dr. Armstrong and a frightening dream in which he performs a surgery on a woman which turns out to be the body of Anthony Marston while he is being watched by Emily Brent as she preaches her moralistic values. Though the dream is shortly interrupted by Rogers who tells him to check on his wife because she is not breathing as it turns out she is pronounced dead, but they do not know why she did not take any drugs or such or any fluids so what the frick could have killed her? Personally the death might be posed because I thought the butler and his wife were in on getting the money, but now the butler is distraught knowing that his wife is dead. Blore does have the idea that Rogers may have wanted to get rid of his wife because all women he says generally are a menace so all the more reasoning to lie and get rid of them in secret. Rogers could have at any point giving his wife something with a poison or a drug slipped into a fluid taking it right back and washing out the container . . . so Blore may be on to assuming Rogers as the killer of the mystery of these strange deaths. Following this problem is not getting off the island because everyone wants to leave yet they cannot with Narracott not on time pertaining to give supplies to the estate. Oh, and Rogers in my opinion is on the verge of insanity he points out that now there are only eight Indian china figures when there were ten the night before . . . this is very noticeable how? It pertains to the plot though with the rhyme continuing "Nine little Indian boys traveling in Devon; One overslept himself and then there were eight" which happened to Mrs. Rogers as she just abruptly overslept and died not waking up the following morning. I still suspect Rogers, I feel he acts oblivious to each of the situations yet he has not shown his feelings or to actually admitted to killing, he is the only one you really have to keep an eye toward not knowing what he does with spare time and such.