Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Messenger 's plane is bombed while he is en to collect evidence to confirm suspicions Soon afterward, Fact2: Messenger with tell fellow passenger key to mystery dying breath, Fact3: passenger turns out to be Raoul Le Borg, Fact4: Gethryn In makes calculating to set himself up as next victim attempt to divert Brougham, Fact5: Brougham sabotages next morning ’s hunt by laying drag with fox in sack over fields
Output (English): A writer named Adrian Messenger John Merivale believes a series of apparently unrelated accidental deaths are actually linked murders. He asks his friend Anthony Gethryn George C. Scott, recently retired from MI5, to help clear up the mystery and provides him with a list of the victims names. Soon afterward, Messengers plane is bombed while he is en route to collect evidence to confirm his suspicions and, with his dying breath, he tries to tell a fellow passenger the key to the mystery. The passenger survives and turns out to be Raoul Le Borg Jacques Roux, Gethryns old World War II counterpart in the French Resistance. They join forces to investigate Messengers list of names, and decode Messengers final cryptic words. They establish that all on the list were together in a prisoner of war camp in Burma, where a Canadian sergeant, George Brougham, betrayed his fellow prisoners, foiling their escape attempt. Each has a reason to kill Brougham. It evolves that Brougham is their killer, but why? They deduce that he is about to come into prominence and cannot risk being recognised. Gethryn and Le Borg establish that he stands in line to an inheritance of the Bruttenholm family, landed gentry who are friends of Gethryn and the late Messenger, and who avidly engage in fox hunting. Having disposed of all possible witnesses to his wartime treachery, Brougham Kirk Douglas appears at a Bruttenholm estate fox hunt and introduces himself as a member of the family he has previously been seen only in disguise. It then becomes clear to the visiting Gethryn and Le Borg that Broughams next victim is to be the young heir, Derek. In an attempt to divert Brougham, Gethryn makes known his investigation of Messenger’s list, calculating to set himself up as the next victim. That night, Brougham sabotages the next morning’s hunt by laying a drag with a fox in a sack over the fields. He especially marks a blind spot behind a high wall, and moves a large hay tedder behind, intending for Gethryn who has been given the honor of leading the hunt to be impaled upon its lethal tines. Unbeknownst to Brougham, his plan goes awry when a farmer repositions the tedder early the next morning. The hunt commences but comes to a halt at the specified spot. Gethryn reveals to the gathered crowd that he discovered and removed the haytedder booby trap earlier that morning and, with the help of the lead fox hound, will detect the scent of the culprit amongst a group of hunt saboteurs. Brougham, once again disguised, is identified and runs off, mounting Dereks horse. When Derek shouts a command to the horse, the animal stops short, throwing Brougham and impaling him on the very same machine he intended for Gethryn.