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You have your confession , but I have one to match it . '' `` All this is beyond me , '' snapped Bray . `` A bit beyond me , too , '' the colonel answered . `` Here are two people who wish us to believe that on the evening of Thursday last , at half after six of the clock , each sought out Captain Fraser-Freer in his rooms and murdered him . '' He walked to the window and then wheeled dramatically . `` The strangest part of it all is , '' he added , `` that at six-thirty o'clock last Thursday evening , at an obscure restaurant in Soho -- Frigacci 's -- these two people were having tea together ! '' I must admit that , as the colonel calmly offered this information , I suddenly went limp all over at a realization of the endless maze of mystery in which we were involved .