"And there were no other injuries on the body?"
"None, except minor bruises caused by the fall to the floor. But they were superficial."
"Nothing else?"
"No—um let me see—no, I think not."
"Are you sure, Dr. Warren?"
The colonel's voice had a strange ring in it.
"Why, yes, I am sure. I was about to say that there was a slight abrasion in the palm of the left hand, a sort of scratch or puncture, as though from a pin, but as she was in the jewelry business and, as I understand it, often made slight repairs herself to brooches and pins brought in, this could easily be accounted for."
"A slight abrasion in the left hand you say?"
"Yes. But I don't attach any importance to that. It was so slight that I and my assistant only gave it a passing glance. It hardly penetrated the skin."
"I see. In the left hand. This is the hand in which the ticking watch was found, was it not?"