It is probable that with that pistol Mr.Lyne was fatally shot." Tarling nodded.
"I hadn't the slightest doubt about that, Milburgh.

You also had another automatic pistol, purchased subsequent to the murder from John Wadham's of Holborn Circus." Mr.Milburgh bowed his head.
"That is perfectly true, sir," he said.

"I have such a weapon.

I live a very lonely kind of life, and----" "You need not explain.

I merely tell you," said Tarling, "that I know where you got the pistol with which you shot at me on the night I brought Odette Rider back from Ashford." Mr.Milburgh closed his eyes and there was resignation written largely on his face--the resignation of an ill-used and falsely-accused man.
"I think it would be better not to discuss controversial subjects," he said.