![]() When the emerald brooch, which was found at the crime scene, is produced, both Arlene and Brade claim it. When Chan asks Brade about the box, Brade says that Dan stole jewels from his father thirty-five years earlier when Dan was a mate on his father's ship, and that he has scrimped and saved for many years for the chance to reclaim his due. Later, Chan assembles all the possible suspects at Dan's house for a final meeting at which he plans to reveal the identity of the murderer. ![]() Chan finds Amos' dead body on the grounds of the hotel and captures a beachcomber who wears the glowing wristwatch. John now gives the strongbox, which he had earlier tossed into the ocean, to Chan, but they find it empty. Seeing Koahla hiding in some bushes on the hotel grounds, John attacks him and retrieves the box. Koahla, Dan's houseboy, enters with a strongbox for Brade, but leaves when he discovers the latter's absence. Meanwhile, as Carlotta watches the desk of the hotel, Brade, a guest, informs her that he'll be going away for a few days. Carlotta, Eagan's daughter, whom John had met on the boat to Honolulu, rebukes John, who has accompanied Chan to the hotel, for questioning her father. Eagan, who hadn't spoken to Dan in twenty-three years, refuses to reveal to Chan the nature of their business transaction. Eagan admits that Dan insisted on seeing him the night of the murder and that the two met after 11:00 in Dan's garden. At the hotel, Eagan tries to leave, but Chan reminds him that he had an engagement with Dan, which he had canceled. She also tells Chan that she remembers a James Eagan of the Reef & Palm Hotel calling repeatedly the day before the murder. Chan questions Minerva, who remembers only one identifying characteristic of the prowler: a glow-in-the-dark wristwatch with a blurred numeral two. At the crime scene, the doctor reports that Dan has been stabbed in the heart and that his arm has been broken. Captain Hallett at the police station receives the report of the murder, and police detective Charlie Chan is woken up along with his household of several children. ![]() At Dan's home, Minerva finds a prowler and then discovers Dan dead in his den. That evening, the captain on the passenger ship announces a smallpox quarantine that requires the passengers to stay on board until morning. ![]() When Dan goes to see Arlene to ask that she return an emerald brooch he had given her as a gift, she lies and says that the brooch is at the jeweler's being repaired and promises to bring it to him later. On deck, Harry Jennison, Dan's lawyer, and Barbara, Dan's daughter, also traveling back to Honolulu, decide to marry and telegram Dan with the news. As John is about to toss the box into the sea, he is tackled by an unidentified man who steals the box. B." and instructs him to throw it into the Pacific the next day, per Dan's orders. During a stopover in San Francisco, John's uncle Roger gives him a strongbox marked "T. Dan sobers when he sees a newspaper item about the arrival to the islands of a T. Dan, the family ingrate, throws his brother out of his Honolulu house, and his sister Minerva arrives with the news that another family member, cousin John Quincy Winterslip, is being sent to Honolulu to bring her back to Boston as, in the family's opinion, she's having too much fun. Brothers Amos and Dan Winterslip discuss Dan's latest amour, a shady lady named Arlene Compton of whom the moralistic Amos does not approve. ![]()
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