According to Poppy friend the pale horse has connected with the murder. And the girl who visited Ginger to offer something had
worked at C.R.C.this organization worked so clean, and the law can not touch it.
c. Climax
Climax is the peak of the story, turning point from rising action to falling action.
Mark was about to go to meet Poppy’s friend who once worked at C.R.C but phone rang. That was Mrs. Oliver. She told Mark to hire a
woman to help her to mind the house. The girl who came was Edith Binns. She was the girl who once took care to Lady Heskett –
Dubois. She told that old lady was very sad, her hair was pull out in handful. Mrs. Oliver said that was exactly what happened to her best
friend Mary Delafontaine, her hair came out, and Thomasina also been through it . It was some kind of new disease Mrs. Oliver said.
Hearing all about this, Mark thought about everything, about medical journal article that he had read in New York. Suddenly he got the
answer. He called the detective Lejeune and asked that Ginger’s hair come out, and the answer yes. Mark told Lejeune that Ginger’s hair
comes out was not because of high fever but poisoned Thallium.
I cluthed the receiver and my head swam. Things, half – remembered scraps of knowledge, drew together. Rhoda and her dogs on the lawn –
an article I had read in medical journal in New York – of course…Of course
I was suddenly a ware that Mrs. Oliver was still quacking happily. ‘ Bless you, ‘ I said. ‘ you’re wonderful ’
I slammed back the receiver, then took it of again.
I dialled a number and was lucky enough this time to get Lejeune straight away.
‘ Listen,’ I said,’ is Ginger hair coming out by the roots in handsfuls ?’
‘ well – as a matter of fact I believe it is. High fever, I suppose.’ ‘ fever my foot, ‘ I said. ‘ what Ginger’s suffering from, what they’ve all
suffered from, is Thallium poisoning. Please god, we may be in time ….’ Christie,2000:296
d. Falling Action
In falling action usually the problems resolved one by one. 1. Pale horse is not about magic but poison.
Finally Mark found out that actually Pale Horse was not magic. Thyrza used magic as a mask. They used thallium through C.R.C
employee who visited the victim. ‘ At any rate, they’ve verified that it was thallium .’
‘ Yes, they’ve verified that.’ ‘ So , that’s the simple truth behind the Pale Horse. Poison . No
witchcraft, no hypnotism, no scientific death rays. Plain poisoning and she flung that at me. Damn her. Flung it in my face. Laughing
in her cheek all the while, I expect .’ Christie,2000: 297 – 298
To find what the true is, Mark was very upset and cursed to what Thyrza have been done. Mark felt have been fooled by believe in
what Thyrza said about the magic.
2. Someone who take control Mark believed there was someone behind these whole things. Every
person had their own job, Mr. Bradley handled about the bet, Pale Horse Thyrza, Bella, Sybill handled about the process of killing
people, and people from C.R.C took control to spread the poison, but there was someone controlling all of this things.
‘ As far as the Pale Horse is concerned, yes. But she’s not real brains of the show. The real brain works behind the scenes. The
plans and organizes it’s all beautifully dove – tailed, you know. Everyone has his or her job, and no one has anything on anyone
else. Bradley runs the financial and legal side. Apart from that, he doesn’t know what happens elsewhere. He’s handsomely paid, of
curse; so is Thyrza Grey.’ Christie,2000: 299.
3. Job in C.R.C looks weird. Lejeune interviewed a woman named Eileen Brandon who once
worked at C.R.C. She resigned from C.R.C because she thought something wrong with that job. Her job was to visit the name on the
list and give some question about cosmetic, food, etc. because she thought it’s a little bit weird she resign.
‘ I told you I couldn’t be definite. She didn’t tell me in so many words. Only that from what she had overheard, the whole set-up
was a racket of some kind. “ It’s not what it seems to be.” That is what she said. Then she
said: “ oh, well, it doesn’t affect us. The money’s very good and we’re not asked to do anything that’s against the low – so I don’t
see that we need bother our heads about it.” Christie,2000: 305 – 306 .
The offered to work in this organization is good, so Eileen Brandon is sales who visited a victim which she got the name from hers office.
4. Zachariah Osborne as the man behind the scene. Detective Lejeune made a dramatic situation by pretending that
Mr. Venables was the man behind the scene. But the true was that Lejeune already knew that Mr. Osborne was the man. Lejeune had
been investigated Mr. Osborne. He found that Mr. Osborne put a pack of thallium in Mr. Venables’s barn, so Mr. Venables could be
accused as the man behind the scene. But Mr. Osborne didn’t know that he had been monitored by detective Lejeune.
‘ Let me introduce you, Mr. Venables, to Mr.Zachariah Osborne, Pharmacist, late of Barton street, Paddington. You’ll feel a
personal interest in him when I tell you that Mr. Osborne, who has been under observation for sometime, was unwise enough to plan a
packet of thallium salt in your potting shed. Not knowing your disability, he’d assumed himself by casting you as the Vallain of the
piece ; and being a very obstinate, as well as a very stupid man, he refused to admit he’d made a bloomer.’ Christie,2000: 319
At last, everyone knew the brain of crime was Mr.Osborne and the mystery had solved.
e. Resolution
