Stella Ballantyne went quite close to it and looked down upon the dead man's face for a long time.

She was pale, but there was no shrinking in her attitude--no apprehension in her eyes.
"He has been killed," she said at length; "telegrams must be sent at once: to Ajmere for a doctor, to Bombay, and to His Highness the Maharajah." Baram Singh salaamed.
"It is as your Excellency wills," he said.
"I will write them," said Stella quietly.

And she sat down at her own writing-table there and then.
The doctor from Ajmere arrived during the day, made an examination and telegraphed a report to the Chief Commissioner at Ajmere.

That report contained the three significant points which Repton had enumerated to Thresk, but with some still more significant details.

The bullet which pierced Captain Ballantyne's heart had been fired from Mrs.Ballantyne's small rook-rifle, and the exploded cartridge was still in the breech.