T
he room was small, with a window looking onto the garden.
Mr Cubitt's body lay on the floor.
'You
can take away the body
now,'
said Holmes. Then he
turned to the doctor.
'Have
you found the bullet which injured
Mrs
Cubitt?'
he asked.
'No,'
replied the doctor. The bullet is still somewhere in her
brain. We will have to operate to remove the
bullet.'
'We
know that two bullets were fired from the
gun,'
said
Inspector Martin.
'And
we know where each bullet went. One
bullet killed Mr Cubitt and the other injured his
wife.'
'Yes,'
said Holmes,
'but
what about the third bullet - the
bullet which passed through the window
frame
25
?'
He turned suddenly and pointed to a hole in the bottom of the
window frame. This hole was the exact shape and size of a bullet.
'Wonderful!'
cried Inspector Martin.
Then
three shots
were
fired, not two. A third person was in the room.