“A revolver, and an ordinary pistol.”
“Yes, go on; I will not interrupt you, tell your own story.”
“He bought the ordinary one because it attracted his fancy—the stock was peculiar. The revolver, he said, he wanted to take to India with him, and he was going to London in the morning.”
“Going to London in the morning; yes,” said the officer, writing industriously.
“He bought bullets and powder.”
“Yes,” said the officer.
“That is all; hearing what I did about the inquest, I though it right in the interest of justice that you should know this.”
“Quite right; did he take the pistols with him?”
“No; we were to send them by Lord Verner’s groom when he passed with the letters.”
“Oh!” said the officer, “that alters the case. When did the groom call?”