Part 1, Chapter 1. A man called Stephen gets off a train and he is set on doing something that he has planned to do for a long time. The man is from Africa because he said that he felt homesick. Was three days before Christmas. Uses words like Drab Saw a beautiful girl sitting on the train. She looked out of place. Part 1, Chapter 2. Pilar, the girl narrates. She was also set to do something. She saw a good looking man in the corridor. He walked in to talk to her. Gave what both people are thinking...
nicotine poisoning a few years before.

Mr. Lee"s throat was slit, jugular vein severed.

Mr. Lee had phoned the Superintendent earlier in the afternoon and told him to go to Mr. Lee"s house. The old man told the Super. that the house had been robbed of many uncut diamonds. The old man thought that the diamonds may be a practicle joke played by someone in the house. The old man told the Super to return in a hour and that the old man would have the case solved. The Super returned in an hour and the old man was dead.