If Mrs. Luttrell had been killed, it would have been a case like those other cases. Colonel Luttrell would, apparently, have killed his wife. It would have been accounted an accident, yet at the same time nobody would have been sure that it was an accident, or whether it had been done on purpose. Insufficient evidence to show it as murder, but quite enough evidence for murder to be suspected. But that meant—that meant— What did it mean? It meant—if anything at all was to make sense—that it was not Colonel Luttrell who shot Mrs. Luttrell, but X.
