Philip Lombard
Traits and Quotes
Audacious
Philip Lombard laughed.
“Dangerous? Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? I’ll be dangerous when I get hold of him!”
Resourceful
“Which of them is U.N. Owen? Well, at a guess, and with absolutely nothing to go upon, I’d plump for Wargrave!”
“Oh!” Vera sounded surprised. She thought for a minute or two and then said, “Why?”
“Hard to say exactly. But to begin with, he’s an old man and he’s been presiding over courts of law for years. That is to say, he’s played God Almighty for a good many months every year. That must go to a man’s head eventually. He gets to see himself as all powerful, as holding the power of life and death – and it’s possible that his brain might snap and he might want to go one step farther and be Executioner and Judge Extraordinary.”
Confident
“I’ve a pretty good imagination of my own. I’ve been in tight places before now and got out of them! I think – I won’t say more than that but I think I’ll get out of this one.”
Philip Lombard laughed.
“Dangerous? Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? I’ll be dangerous when I get hold of him!”
Resourceful
“Which of them is U.N. Owen? Well, at a guess, and with absolutely nothing to go upon, I’d plump for Wargrave!”
“Oh!” Vera sounded surprised. She thought for a minute or two and then said, “Why?”
“Hard to say exactly. But to begin with, he’s an old man and he’s been presiding over courts of law for years. That is to say, he’s played God Almighty for a good many months every year. That must go to a man’s head eventually. He gets to see himself as all powerful, as holding the power of life and death – and it’s possible that his brain might snap and he might want to go one step farther and be Executioner and Judge Extraordinary.”
Confident
“I’ve a pretty good imagination of my own. I’ve been in tight places before now and got out of them! I think – I won’t say more than that but I think I’ll get out of this one.”
His crime that the Voice said
Philip Lombard, that upon a date in February, 1932, you were guilty of the death of twenty-one men, members of an East African tribe.
How he died
He was shot by Vera Claythorne on the beach.