He demands the wedding ring--Heaven only knows why, but so it must have been.

Mr.Douglas gave it up.

Then either in cold blood or in the course of a struggle--Douglas may have gripped the hammer that was found upon the mat--he shot Douglas in this horrible way.

He dropped his gun and also it would seem this queer card--V.V.

341, whatever that may mean--and he made his escape through the window and across the moat at the very moment when Cecil Barker was discovering the crime.