Howard's suspicions seem justified when his clerk, Ong Chi Seng, shows him a copy of a letter Leslie wrote to Hammond the day she killed him, telling him that her husband would be away that evening, and pleading with him to come—implicitly threatening him if he did not come.
Njegove sumnje uskoro se pokažu opravdanima kada mu njegov službenik, Ong Chi Seng (Victor Sen Yung), pokaže kopiju pisma kojeg je Leslie napisala Hammondu na dan kada ga je ubila, a u kojem je istaknula da njezinog supruga neće biti navečer kod kuće i preklinjala ga da dođe - eksplicitno mu prijeteći ako to ne učini.