But the Chief crossed the room to the door and the detective hustled the prisoner away.
Then the official whom they had seen before came in.
“Glad I caught you,” he said. “I thought you would care to see the post mortem report. The doctor has just handed it in.”
The chief waved him off.
“I don’t think there’s any doubt about the cause of death,” he replied, “we saw the body ourselves...”
“Quite so,” replied the other, “but there is something interesting about this report all the same. They were able to extract the bullet!”
“Oh,” said the Chief, “that ought to tell us something!”
“It does,” answered the official. “We’ve submitted it to our small arms expert, and he pronounces it to be a bullet fired by an automatic pistol of unusually large calibre.”
The Chief looked at Desmond.
“You were right there,” he said.