Surely the same solution would have suggested itself to him ere this were it possible for twenty hours to have elapsed between the time of the shooting and the discovery that Whitmore was dead! "If Whitmore was shot the night before, then he must have deliberately chosen his office in which to die!" the coroner said in disparagement of Britz's contention.

"Why, it's impossible! I should have detected it the moment I saw the wound." Britz now produced the enlarged photograph of the wound as well as the needle that he had found on the floor of Whitmore's office.
"It is all very simple--so simple that I eliminated the theory that Whitmore was killed in his office at the very outset of the investigation.

The very preparations that were made to delude us contained the evidence of their own clumsy manufacture.

Look at the photograph of this wound!" Britz held the photograph edgewise on his desk.

"Do you observe the perforations about the edge of the wound?
They tell the whole story.