Thomson.
"Yes, quite sure," said Jack.
"And where did Ericson go to after he left you?" questioned Mr.
Thomson.
"I dinna ken, Mr. Thomson. He said he was to gang back to Lyndardy.
But ye'd better ask himsel', had ye not?"
And Paterson looked round to where I sat.
Mr. Thomson seemed to have no further questions to ask, and Bailie
Duke said:
"Very well, Jack, that will do now. You may both go."
And Jack Paterson went away, followed by Barrie.
"Now, doctor, would you just let us hear what you have to say,
please?" said Mr. Duke, turning to Dr. Linklater.
The doctor kept his seat, and said:
"Mr. Drever came to me early on Friday morning and told me that
Colin Lothian had been shot dead over by Mary Firth's cottage, and
I went out. I met the man Barrio on the way, and he turned back
with me, conducting me to the spot. I found Lothian quite dead. He
had been dead quite two hours, I should say. There was a gunshot
wound in his back under the left shoulder. I got Paterson and
Barrie to take off a door in Mary Firth's room, and we carried the
body upon it down to my house. I made an examination of the body,
and extracted several swan shot from the left lung."
Dr. Linklater then passed a piece of paper containing the shot to
Bailie Duke, saying: "I suppose you need me no longer, bailie?"
"No, doctor, that's all," said Mr.
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