CHAPTER 9The inspector came into his room at Scotland Yard and threw down his hat with an exclamation of impatience.
Harbord, who had followed him in, looked at him in surprise. It was not often that Stoddart was betrayed into showing any irritation.
"That pistol that was found in the ditch at Hughlin's Wood was not the one with which Burslem was shot."
"Not! But I understood that the bullet fitted."
"So it did?so it does." Stoddart sat down and frowned heavily. "But this new system that they have discovered lately, of examining the bullet through a powerful microscope, which discovers small, almost invisible lines on the bullet, proves positively whether a bullet has been fired from a certain revolver or not, though one shot had been fired from the revolver, mind you, says in this cas
